FOTOGRAFIE W ARCHIWUM DIECEZJI ŁUCKIEJ
PHOTOGRAPHS IN THE ARCHIVES OF THE LUTSK DIOCESE

Summary/Abstract: The holdings of the Archives of the Lutsk Diocese, held in the Centre for Church Archives, Libraries and Museums (ABMK Centre), are fragmentary and consist of the documentation produced from the Second World War until the 1960s, i.e. the death of the Ordinary Bishop A. Szelążek in Zamek Bierzgłowski in 1950 and the subsequent activities of the Lutsk priests. The archival holdings were arranged after their transfer to the ABMK Centre. As they were in total disarray, the inventory work was tedious and lengthy. The arrangement and description of the photographic documentation in accordance with archival methodology required, among other things, the identifi cation of people, places and determining the dates of taking photographs. Currently, the collection of the Archives of the Lutsk Diocese contains 434 photographs in four record groups. The record groups of legacies and iconographic collections hold the largest number of photographs. In the other two record groups, namely the Lutsk Theological Seminary and the Lutsk Cathedral Parish, photographs constitute a marginal number of non-textual material. The photographs immortalize the Catholic clergy of the diocese and the bishops of Lutsk as well as sacral buildings (Catholic and Orthodox churches) or important social and religious events. There are also photographs of secular origin, depicting, among others, Dr Tarnawski’s Natural Medicine Institution in Kosovo. The photograph collection, as well as all the records of the Archives of the Lutsk Diocese, is not made available due to its poor state of preservation. All the archival holdings of the Lutsk archives are intended to be digitalized and made available in digital form.

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