Az erdélyi egyházmegye és az Apostoli Kamara Luxemburgi Zsigmond uralkodása idején
The Transylvanian Diocese and the Apostolic Chamber during the Reign of King Sigismund of Luxembourg

Summary/Abstract: The Reverenda Camera Apostolica was one of the most ancient offices of the Papal Curia which, throughout the centuries, evolved into a central organ of the Holy See, carrying out economic, political and judicial functions, and ultimately had become the supreme governing body of the Papal State. Under the pontificate of Pope John XXII, an extensive reform was introduced in the board of finance, establishing a strict fiscal system based on reservations, servitia, tithes, spolia and other means of taxation. As part of the transformation, bookkeeping and accountancy was reorganized and the boundaries of the taxation districts, which had an oft en-changing character in earlier times, were also to be concluded. On account of the reforms following the Great Western Schism (1378–1417), the office developed into an organisation possessing such a governance power which extended to the entire Western Christendom, thus to the Kingdom of Hungary regarding both temporal and spiritual matters as well. In my paper I am to review the most important points of presence between the Apostolic Camera and the Transylvanian Diocese in the span of half a century from 1387 to 1437 focusing on the following fields: 1) taxation, 2) the ad limina visitations, and finally, 3) ordination ofpriests in the Curia Romana.

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