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- 1919-01-01-1938-12-31 (Creation)
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Fonds
Extent and medium
Global extent: 5 “busta” (folders), 15 selected and described files
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Name of creator
Biographical history
1929-1948: appointed Titular of the new Apostolic Nonciature in Ireland.
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Scope and content
Before being appointed Titular of the new Apostolic Nonciature in Ireland (1929-1948), Fr Paschal Robinson ofm (1870-1948) had an intense diplomatic activity on behalf of the Holy See, in particular of the Secretariat of State and the Congregations for the Oriental Church and Propaganda Fide.
After his death, Mgr Domenico Tardini, at that time secretary of the Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, ordered to preserve the documents of his missions as Apostolic Visitator in Palestine and Apostolic Delegate in Malta. Then the documents were deposited in the ASV.
The six folders mainly concerns the Apostolic visits to Palestine entrusted to Fr Robinson by the Congregation for the Oriental Church (1925-1928) and the Congregation for Propaganda Fide (1920-1921; 1927-1928).
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
The fonds is closed.
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Conditions governing access
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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Rules and/or conventions used
ISAD(G), Second Edition, Ottawa 2000.
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Catalogue prepared on August 2017
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Archivist's note
Inventory of a range of 15 files from the Archive of Friar Paschal Robinson ofm (1870-1948), mission as Apostolic Visitator in Palestine (1919-1938), held by the Vatican Secret Archives (Città del Vaticano), translated by Maria Chiara Rioli, 2017.