The Congress of Church Historians

On June 15 and 16, the 9th National Congress of Church Historians was held at the Saint Athanasius Greek Catholic Theological Institute in Nyíregyháza. The panel discussions concentrated on “presentable church history”, namely on the role of memorial places, museums, and collections, and on the significance of museum pedagogy. The discussions were preceded by the presentations of the participants. In the discussion about the collections of religious orders, Tamás Dénesi described the collections of the Pannonhalma Archabbey, and made a survey of the exhibitions related to church history in the past two decades and summarised their experiences. The two-day programme provided an opportunity for giving a summary of the research results of the HAS–SAGCTI Impetus Greek Catholic Heritage Research Group, for the presentation of the books published in the near past, and for visiting the Greek Catholic Museum opened for the public some weeks earlier.