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The ARCHDIOCESAN ARCHIVE
in Poznan
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Seal of bishop Andrzej Bniński and grand seal
of the Cathedral Chapter (1469)
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 he main Archive
for Poznań Archdiocese was found in 1925 as a self-dependent
diocesan institution. It was the very first institution of
that kind in Poland. From the very beginning, seat of the
new Record Archives became the former building of Lubranski
Academy. The building was suited to the needs of new institution.
The whole archival fund are divided on three parts.
he first one
is named the Old Records Archives and it's also called
as the Old Polish Archive. It preserve the documents produced
before the XIX-th century. The collection contains parchment
and papyrus documents, register books from bishops, chapters'
as well as consistorial chancelleries.
Next one is Modern Record Archive, which contains archives
material from XIX till XX century.
The third part are Special Collections. It contains
archives material which was omitted in two first parts. Here
we can find documents, which are most popular among searchers.
This are birth, marriage and death records.
 n our collection
we have 1085 parchment documents. The oldest one is from 1231.
It is diplome, which was draw up by prince Władysław Laskonogi.
 ery large collection
is the one from Old-Polish period. It contains over 500 manuscripts
and books. Which refers to central diocesan institutions.
The biggest one is the collection of files.
There are many archives material which consider same of church's
organization. Many of them had their seats in Poznań during
Poland's twenty years of independence after World War I. The
Archive also preserves very large collection of parochial
documents. In our archival fund we can find over 1700 records
books.
More information you can find in the other article about
Archives.
The basics literature about the Archive:
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