Archives of the Archbishoopric of Zagreb

The Archiepiscopal archive was developed through the activity of the Archbishopric of Zagreb from her establishment in 1094 till today. This material is a valuable source for research of church administration, the position of the Archbishopric of Zagreb within the Church, its historical boundaries, political role of the archbishop, rural economy administration of bishop's properties and cultural – scientific activities of individual bishops.

The most significant systematizing of Archives was taken for Bishop M. Vrhovac (1787 – 1827). It was M.J. Kovačić and his son who splitted the Archives into the serials of 10 subjects: privileges, testaments, tithes, records of rural economy, judicial records, ecclesiastically –political records, records of the church administration, the foundational documents and documents of the expropriation. The Kovačićs had also arranged the correspondence of the Zagrebian bishops (1611 – 1815), which continuation is formed by presidential records, that Bishop A. Alagović (1829 – 1837) started creating. The important segment of the archbishopric archives are archidiaconal reports about religious, economical, political and moral circumstances in individual parishes from 1615 till our days (published in: The canon visitations of the Archbishopric of Zagreb 1615 – 1913. Review, Zagreb: Croatian archive, 1989.) The archival group Spiritual table, which was not systematized by the Kovačićs, encloses records of administrating the Archbishopric from 1748 till today. In collection of various protocols the most valuable are the codices of privileges of the bishopric of Zagreb and the monastery of Mother of God in Topusko from the middle of the 14th century, the protocols of in vicar's own hand written oaths, five volumes of Eugen Kvaternik's journal and etc.

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Capitular archives of Zagreb

The Zagreb Chapter (Kaptol), established when the Bishopric of Zagreb was founded, as the coresponsible carrier of the administration of the bishopric alongside with the bishop, it has developed during the centuries an extensive activity in ecclestiastical, public, rural economical and other areas. As an institution it belongs in order of the oldest and most important on our ground. The Statutes of Zagreb Chapter (Kaptol) from 1334, as well as Historia Salonitana by Thomas Spalatensis Archdeacon the most significant historical work in Croatia, both testify of its extended activity in 14th century.

The Zagreb Chapter (Kaptol) had vast estates, so the records related to its' administration were important for econimical history. It also arranged a bank of its own kind, emerged mainly, from his members' inheritances, they are, so called, Devouted foundations. Namely, the members of the Zagreb Chapter (Kaptol) were testamently leaving to the Zagreb Chapter (Kaptol), their principals and interrests that were meant for schooling of youth, building churches, helping the poor…etc. In time, these foundation have gained a huge reputation, so the Parliament also entrusted the management of the state money to the Zagreb Chapter (Kaptol)

From 13th century the Zagreb Chapter (Kaptol) had a role of a credible place (locus credibilis) in political life. The first known such record comes from the year 1229.
In front of the Zagreb Chapter (Kaptol) sale contracts were being signed and other property-rights relations were being sorted out: the noblemen were entered upon the possession of property, Kaptol was taking care of judicial investiogations, etc. and of those matters, the Zagreb Chapter (Kaptol) was issuing the transcripts of records with public trust.

Archives of the Cathedral contains records about all of the mantioned activities, that were kept for centuries in Cathedral's sacristy next to the most precious things of the treasury.
The content of Archives is divided into the public and the private one. The public archives relates to the activity of Chapter (Kaptol) as a credible place, and the private one contains Old records of the Chapter (Kaptol) till 1700., Records of the Chapter(Kaptol) from 18th century, the Conclave records 1800 -1918., the Judicial records, Records of various squire's estate, Records of the cathedral, Deans' testaments and etc.

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Archives of capitular of Čazma

The Chapter of Čazma was founded in 1232. by the Zagrebian bishop Stjepan II. As a difference to the Zagreb Chapter (Kaptol) which was established next to the cathedral, the Chapter of Čazma was instituted only as an Assembly Chapter, and till the Turkish conquest of Čazma, in the middle of the 16th century, the Zagrebian bishops had their residence there. Then, the deans of Čazma moved to Zagreb, where they became assistants of Zagrebian deans, and their arcihive was moved to Zelina where it stayed till the year 1601. The deans of Čazma did not return to their primary residence, not even, after the liberation of Čazma, instead they gained in replacement a paulist monastery and a property Lepoglava, and in 1811. houses in Varaždin. That's how the Chapter of Čazma –Varaždin emerged, whose name come from more recent period. Like the Chapter of Zagreb, the Chapter of Čazma also performed the service of a credible place, and exactly this archival entirety is the best preserved

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Archives of Prebendar’s assembly of Zagreb

The Prebendary's assembly of Zagrebian cathedral consists of priests who are helping the zagrebian deans in performance of liturgy in zagrebian cathedral. It is established by the bishop Timotej (1264 – 1287). In 1466. the prebendary's assembly, with a permission from the Chapter (Kaptol), formed its statutes, which testify of the assembly itself and the relations within it, and the ecclestiastical service of prebendarys.
In the middle of the 16th century the service of zagrebian prebendarys is taken over by the banished deans of Čazma. Bishop M. Vrhovac approved new statutes to the prebendarys in 1800. The assembly's administrative doing bussiness was known only from 1784, from when the parliament's transcripts were kept up. The archives of prebendary' assembly are very scanty. The old part of archive is estranged and partially kept in archives of CASA (Croatian Academy of Science and Art.

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