Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1839-01-01-1935-12-31 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
Global extent: 101 dossiers; 13 selected and described files
Context area
Name of creator
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.
Repository
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Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
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.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
The fonds is closed.
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Subject to the authorization of the Vatican Secret Archives (ASV)
Conditions governing reproduction
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Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
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Rules and/or conventions used
ISAD(G), Second Edition, Ottawa 2000.
Status
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Dates of creation revision deletion
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.