Chirograph regarding the relocation of part of the Vatican Archive and Library to the Pontifical Roman Major Seminary, 12.11.2024

The centuries-old care for the stewardship of the acts and documents concerning the governance of the universal Church, together with the commitment to the development and dissemination of culture, are the characteristic features of the activity of the Vatican Archives and Library. Continuing the work already begun by my Predecessors, ever since the Scrinium of the Church of Rome, the two Institutions are today called to make this precious patrimony accessible.

Therefore, in pursuit of the aim of contributing to the most effective management of their activities and to the conservation of their assets, having acquired the appropriate information and competent opinions

I DECREE

that the spaces available to the Apostolic Archive and the Apostolic Library be expanded, using part of the building and its surroundings that in the extraterritorial area of Saint John Lateran houses the Pontifical Roman Major Seminary, according to the delimitation attached hereto.

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