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Fonds VA-ASV/1262 - Archive of the Apostolic Delegation of Egypt

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VA-ASV/1262

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Archive of the Apostolic Delegation of Egypt

Date(s)

  • 1839-01-01-1935-12-31 (Creation)

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Extent and medium

Global extent: 101 dossiers; 13 selected and described files

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Name of creator

(From 1839)

Administrative history

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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This archival fonds contains documents from 1839 to 1935, although some of them date before this period. Most part of the archives of pontifical representations started to arrive to Vatican since the mid Seventies of the 20th century.
During the cataloguing, the fonds was divided into “Archivio Antico”; “Archivio mons. Cassulo” e “Archivio mons. Valeri-Mazzoli-Bartoloni-Dini”. The last one is composed by 101 dossiers.

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The fonds is closed.

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Subject to the authorization of the Vatican Secret Archives (ASV)

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ISAD(G), Second Edition, Ottawa 2000.

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Catalogue prepared on April 2010; revised on August 2017

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Archivist's note

Inventory of a range of 13 items from the Archive of the Apostolic Delegation to Egypt, (1905-1948), held by the Vatican Secrete Archives (Città del Vaticano), made by Giorgia Bellucci and Maria Chiara Rioli, April 2010.

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