Archiwum w Domu Generalnym Zgromadzenia Zmartwychwstania Pana Naszego Jezusa Chrystusa w Rzymie
The Archives at the General House of the Congregation of the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ in Rome

Summary/Abstract: The Archive at the General House of the Congregation of the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ in Rome is the central historical archive of the congregation. Bogdan Jański should be considered its founder, as he instructed to gather his entire legacy in Rome in 1840. Since 1886 the documentation has been housed in the General House of the Resurrectionists in via San Sebastanello 11. The first works organizing the archival records were undertaken by Father Paweł Smolikowski, at the turn of the 20th century. The current state of the archive has been most influenced by Father John Iwicki, who has catalogued nearly 70,000 file records, dividing the collection into 11 series. Between 2017 and 2023, Father Paweł Szymanowski, the congregation’s archivist, succeeded in signing an agreement with the Head Office of the State Archives to digitize and restore the letters of Adam Mickiewicz and Cyprian Kamil Norwid. Moreover, the Integrated Archival Information System (Zintegrowany System Informacji Archiwalnej – ZoSIA) has been implemented in the archive, thanks to which the inventory descriptions of archival items and their scans are successively uploaded. While the Roman Resurrectionist Archive does not have a statute, since October 30th, 1996, it has been operating on the basis of regulations approved by Father Sutherland MacDonald CR, the General of the Congregation. The archive has an inventory of more than 80,000 records. It collects the documentation heritage generated by the congregation’s central institutions, Resurrectionist houses and the legacy of the clergy. The Resurrectionist Archive includes very precious documentary resources, which, by their sheer size and informational value, make this institution one of the most important outside Poland. Its significance is not limited only to the knowledge of the history of the Polish Church in exile in the 19th and 20th centuries, but also the life of Polish exiles. Particularly valuable are the materials concerning the activity of the Great Emigration, cultural and political life of Poles in exile in the era of national captivity.

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