Bezpieczeństwo zbiorów a nadzór archiwalny w praktyce Archiwum Archidiecezjalnego w Katowicach
The security of collections and the archival supervision in the practice of the Archdiocesan Archives in Katowice

Summary/Abstract: The archival supervision in the control‑related activities of the ecclesiastical authorities has a rich tradition of many centuries in the history of the Catholic Church. In the course of episcopal and dean inspections not only the fact of regular record‑keeping of baptisms, nuptials and burials of parishioners was checked but also the state of preservation and the condition of the storage of the remaining documents produced by parish offices. However, after 1945, in the altered conditions of the political system, the continuity of the practice of the archival supervision was broken. Since 1997 in the Katowice diocese a project of the centralisation of the parish archive resources in the Archdiocesan Archives in Katowice has been realised. At the same time, the project entails the first complete inventory‑taking of the archival heritage of the Katowice diocese to be carried out in the post‑war period.

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