The Role of the Church Archives

Abstract

The subject of this article is to present the role of the church archives. The article includes a brief legal introduction concerning the regulations of the Code of Canon Law on the subject of the church archives as well as the most important part of the article – the division and a brief role description of the mentioned archives. The division of the article goes back to the desire of finding the Aurea Mediocritas, in order not to exaggerate with the secondary but with the essential content of the paper and at the same time to deal with its actual subject at length.