Free visit of the Archives of the Church of France

Name: Free visit of the Archives of the Church of France
Start: 2023-09-16T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-16T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Centre national des archives de l'Église de France

Saturday 16 September 2023, 10:00Passed

Conditions

Free entry

The Archives de l'Eglise de France are celebrating their 50th anniversary this year in Issy-les-Moulineaux. Their mission: to collect the archives of the Bishops' Conference of France, to host archives of interest to the national history of the Catholic Church in France such as the magazine Cœurs vaillants (1929-1961) in which Hergé made his debut.(visit organised in partnership with Historim).

About the location

Centre national des archives de l'Église de France

35 rue du Général-Leclerc 92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux

Hauts-de-Seine
Île-de-France

The mission of the CNAEF is to collect, classify, preserve, communicate and enhance the archives of the services and bodies of the French Bishops' Conference (CEF), a collegial body of bishops in France, created in 1964\. It also welcomes, preserves and values donations and archives relating to the history of the Catholic Church in France from various sources: religious institutes, lay movements, private persons, etc. Because of French ecclesial history (Revolution of 1789 and nationalisation of the property of the clergy, concordatary regime until 1905, creation of the Episcopal Conference in 1964, etc.), almost all the documents kept at the CNAEF date from the twentieth century, and are mostly after the Second Vatican Council. In the summer of 2019, nearly 6 linear kilometres of documents are preserved.