Fonds VA-ASV/1241 - Archive of the Apostolic Delegation in Jerusalem and Palestine

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VA-ASV/1241

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Archive of the Apostolic Delegation in Jerusalem and Palestine

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  • 1930-01-13-1962-12-31 (Production)

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Global extent: 8 “busta” (folders), 41 files (2 unavailable), 254 subfiles (67 unavailable) ; 186 selected and described items

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(From 1929)

Histoire administrative

The Apostolic Delegation in Palestine, Transjordan and Cyprus was created on 11 March 1929, when it was separated from Syria and put under the jurisdiction of the Apostolic Delegation in Egypt.
On 15 June 1934 Mgr Gustavo Testa (1886-1969) was appointed Apostolic Delegate in Egypt, Arabia, Eritrea, Abyssinia, Palestine, Transjordan and Cyprus and Titular Bishop of Amasea. He returned to Rome in 1941 and Mgr Arthur Hughes was appointed chargé d'affaires of the Apostolic Delegation of Palestine, Transjordan and Cyprus and then Regent until 1948. Mgr Testa served again as Apostolic Delegate since 1947. On 11 February 1948 the Apostolic Delegation of Palestine, Transjordan and Cyprus was set up autonomously with its see in Jerusalem. Mgr Testa was appointed first Delegate and serve until 1953.

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Mgr Testa took over the archive of the Apostolic Delegation after his entry to Jerusalem, on 18 June, 1948. The archive contains 38 folders concerning the administrations of the Apostolic Delegates Gustavo Testa, Arthur Hughes, Silvio Oddi and Giuseppe Sensi. The documentation covers the period 1935-1962. The documentation concerning the government of Mgr Valerio Valeri has been lost in 1948 when the palace of the Apostolic Delegation was destroyed. A well-structured filing plan is available for the government of Testa, Oddi and Sensi. The archive is accessible until 1939.

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Subject to the authorization of the Vatican Secret Archives (Città del Vaticano).
Some files are closed or on limited access. In accordance with a practice established in 1924, the pope grants free access to the documents "grouped into pontificates" currently running up to the end of the papacy of Pope Pius XI (February 1939).

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      Note de publication

      Indice dei Fondi e relativi mezzi di descrizione e di ricerca dell'Archivio Segreto Vaticano, Città del Vaticano, 2014.

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      Règles et/ou conventions utilisées

      ISAD(G), Second Edition, Ottawa 2000.

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      Catalogue prepared on August 2017

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          Note de l'archiviste

          Inventory of a range of 187 items from the Archive of the Apostolic Delegation in Jerusalem and Palestine (1905-1946), Index no. 1241, held by the Vatican Secret Archives (Città del Vaticano), translated by Maria Chiara Rioli, 2017.

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