Fifteenth-century lists of candidates for ordination from the Archdiocese of Gniezno Cover Image

Piętnastowieczne listy kandydatów do święceń z archidiecezji gnieźnieńskiej
Fifteenth-century lists of candidates for ordination from the Archdiocese of Gniezno

Author(s): Adam Kozak
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, History of Church(es), 15th Century
Published by: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: ordination of the clergy; ordination lists; Church sources; Late Middle Ages; Archdiocese of Gniezno;

Summary/Abstract: The paper attempts to identify the period when the Polish ecclesiastical province started keeping ordained priests’ registers, and to determine the chancellery form of the oldest lists. For this purpose, four previously unpublished records are discussed, which could be identified as fifteenth-century lists of candidates for ordination. The first was preserved in the manuscript kept at the Jagiellonian Library under the reference number of 143 III, while three others were found in 2015 among the documentation of the Gniezno consistory and are now stored in the collection of the Archdiocesan Archive in Gniezno. The article is supplemented with a critical edition of the presented lists.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 59
  • Page Range: 145-166
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Polish