Position: Senior Research Fellow, Deputy director

Department: Church History

Address: 1097 Budapest, 4 Tóth Kálmán Street

Room: B.4.20.

Phone: +36 1 224-6700/4612

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QUALIFICATIONS

Licence in Catholic Theology, Pázmány Péter Catholic University (Budapest), Faculty of Theology, 2020

Habilitation in History, Pázmány Péter Catholic University (Budapest), Faculty of Humanities, 2017

Ph.D. in History, Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest), Faculty of Humanities, 2010

M.A. in Catholic Theology, Pázmány Péter Catholic University (Budapest), Faculty of Theology, 2008

Licence in Church History, Pontifical Gregorian University (Rome), Faculty of History and Cultural Heritage of the Church, 2003

M.A. in Classical Latin, Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest), Faculty of Humanities, 2003

M.A. in History, Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest), Faculty of Humanities, 2002

RESEARCH EXPERTISE

19-20^th century, church history, state-church relations, Hungary, East-Central Europe, communism

PROJECTS

ERC Consolidator Grant Nr. 101044165 SOVEREIGNTY: Negotiating Sovereignty: Challenges of secularism and Nation Building in Central Eastern Europe since 1780 The project is the first comparative investigation of the combined history of the conflicts between transnational institutions and modern states with a claim to sovereignty in the Habsburg Monarchy and its successor states between 1780 and 1990. The project provides this investigation by examining the history of the conflicts concerning the oaths of allegiance required of the hierarchy of the Catholic Church by secular powers. By examining the reasons for the state’s insistence on oaths of loyalty, the reactions of the church, and changes in the forms of the oaths and the practices surrounding them as a ritual by era and country, the project will identify elements of continuity and discontinuity in the relationship between church and state in the contexts of Josephinism, secularisation, secularism, nationalism, nation (state) building, and communism.

NKFIH OTKA FK-135762: Ostpolitik of the Vatican and Hungary: Central European Strategies of the Holy See Between 1944–1964. The project focuses on revealing and publishing documents of the Holy See and diplomatic source from 1944–1964 of the Vatican Ostpolitik targeting Hungary and Central Europe, as well as on the publication and the comparative analysis of the well-heads of the process leading to the partial agreement made by and between Hungary and the Holy See in 1964.

PUBLICATIONS

A complete list of publications: mtmt.hu 

List of selected publications:

• “La pratica concordataria nell’Ostpolitik vaticana.” Archivum Historiae Pontificiae 54 (2022): 233-274.
• Az 1822. évi magyar nemzeti zsinat története. Budapest: MTA Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont Történettudományi Intézet, 2018.
• Pressed by a Double Loyalty: Hungarian Attendance at the Second Vatican Council, 1959–1965. Budapest–New York: Central European University Press, 2016.
• Rapporti diplomatici tra la Santa Sede e l’Ungheria (1920-2015), a cura di András Fejérdy. Città del Vaticano, libreria Editrice Vaticana 2016
• The Vatican «Ostpolitik» 1958-1978: Responsibility and Whitness during John XXIII and Paul VI, edited by András Fejérdy. Roma: Viella 2015.