Powstanie i organizacja Instytutu Historii Kościoła przy KUL

Abstract

Before 1939 there were 7 chairs of the Church’s history at the theological faculties in Cracow, Warsaw, Lvov, Vilnus and Lublin in the then Poland. In Cracow and Lvov worked two separate chairs of the Church's history in Poland. After 1945 only three theological faculties and four chairs of the Church's history (Cracow, Lublin, and Warsaw) remained within the borders of the new Polish Stale. In 1946 Fr Mieczysław Żywczyński took the chair of the Church's history at KUL which chair had been vacant for a couple of years. In 1950 there was established a separate chair of the Church's history in the Christian ancient times and the history of theology, and it was Fr dr Marian Rechowicz who was appointed to this chair. On September 1, 1957, three chairs of the Church's history: of the ancient times, Middle Ages, modem and contemporary history were created at the Faculty of Theology on September 1,1957. Thanks to Fr Rector M. Rechowicz's personal engagement the Congregation of the Seminaries and Universities issued a document on 6lh February 1964 which erected the Institute of the Church's History at the Theological Faculty at KUL. The Institue includes 7 chairs: the chair of the Christian ancient times (Fr Bolesław Kumor, then Fr bp Jan Śrutwa), the chair of the Middle Ages (Fr Marian Rechowicz, then Fr Marek Zahajkiewicz), the chair of the modem and contemporary history (F r Mieczysław Żywczyński, then contemporary Fr Bolesław Kumor, 19th and 20th centuries – Fr Zygmunt Zieliński), the chair of auxiliary sciences and methodology (Fr Stanislaw Librowski, then Fr A. Weiss), palrology (Fr Jan Szymusiak), then Fr Franciszek Drączkowski), the history to theology (Fr Marian Rechowicz, then Fr Henryk Wojtyska). Three learned papers arc connected with the Institute: “Archives, Libraries and Church Museums”, Theological-canonical Annuals, and fascicles “The History of the Church” and “The Works of the Institue of the Church’s History”.