DOROBEK HISTORIOGRAFICZNY INSTYTUTU HISTORII KOŚCIOŁA I PATROLOGII KATOLICKIEGO UNIWERSYTETU LUBELSKIEGO JANA PAWŁA II
Historiographical achievements of the Institute of Church History and Patrology of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin

Summary/Abstract: The Institute of History of the church and Patrology of the John Paul II catho- lic University of Lublin was built in 1964. Its structure and curriculum are based on the Department of church History at the Gregorian University in Rome. The creators of the Institute were fathers prof. Marian Rechowicz and prof. Mieczysław Żywczyński. Especially the rst one developed a structure schema and education program. The historiographical achievements of the Institute consist of different topics from the history of the church in Poland and in the world. Let us list, for example: the history of Polish theological thought, relationship church – state in Europe during the times of the French Revolution and in the post-revolutionary era, structure and organization of the church in Poland, including individual dio- ceses, Old Polish ecclesiastical archives, the editing of the Polish Nunciature act, formation for the priesthood in medieval Poland, church under Prussian rule, es- pecially in times of Kulturkampf and the church in the Third Reich, reception of the post-Tridentine reform of the church in Poland, the theological thought of Gregory of Nazianzus, clement of Alexandria, Tertullian and St.. cyprian, Polish clergy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries., church libraries in the days of old Poland. Among the common achievements of members of the Institute is the three-volume work History of Catholic theology in Poland (Lublin 1974 to 1977), prepared under the editorship of Fr. Prof. Rechowicz and prepared under the ed- itorship of Fr. Professor Zygmunt Zielinski Religious life in Poland under Nazi occupation 1939-1945, (Warsaw 1982) and Religious life in occupied Poland from 1939 to 1945. Metropolises Vilnius and Lviv, orders, (Katowice 1992). The works carried out at the Institute are usually published in “Annals of Theology” (Volume 4 devoted to the history of the church), and the yearbook “The church in Poland. History and culture”.

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