Aims & Scope

The DHGE offers comprehensive coverage, spanning all continents from Antiquity to the present day. Entries are categorized into people, places, or institutions.

The people included in the Dictionnaire have played a significant role in the history of the Church through their work or writings. Readers can find information about pontiff sovereigns, cardinals, bishops, heads of orders, priests, religious figures, saints, writers of religious works, converts, heretics, and schismatics.

The second type of entry in the Dictionnaire relates to the Church’s geographic history and provides a historical account of ecclesiastical provinces, dioceses, bishops, and religious places. The last group includes entries dedicated to the main ecclesiastical institutions from a purely historical perspective.

The DHGE has been enriched with biographies drawn from the collection Die Bischöfe des Heiligen Römischen Reiches (BHRR). The BHRR contains over 4400 biographies of bishops who served between 1198 and 2001.

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Key Features

• Academic responsibility: Catholic University of Louvain and the KU Leuven
• Live links to the bibliographic records of the Index Religiosus
• Enrichment with more than 2200 biographical notes on bishops, drawn from the reference work Die Bischöfe des Heiligen Römischen Reiches.

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Partners

The DHGE represents a distinguished program administered in partnership with by Université of Louvain-La-Neuve.