''Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques'' is an encyclopaedia founded by the future cardinal
Alfred-Henri-Marie Baudrillart
Alfred-Henri-Marie Baudrillart, Orat. (6 January 1859 – 19 May 1942) was a French prelate of the Catholic Church, who became a Cardinal in 1935. An historian and writer, he served as Rector of the Institut Catholique de Paris from 1907 until hi ...
in 1912.
This immense and exhaustive work is currently edited by Luc Courtois and Eddy Louchez of the university of Louvain (
UCLouvain) and published by Brepols of
Turnhout
Turnhout () is a Belgium, Belgian Municipalities in Belgium, municipality and city located in the Flemish Region, Flemish Provinces of Belgium, province of Antwerp (province), Antwerp. The municipality comprises only the city of Turnhout proper. ...
. This encyclopedia, in
French and English, covers mainly subjects, people and places related to the Christian tradition and follows a strict alphabetical order.
The first fascicule (from entry ''Aachs'') was published in 1912 and the publication follows regularly year after year. In 2015 this encyclopedia arrived at fascicule 185 (containing entries from ''Leyen'' to ''Licayrac''). The whole work is published also in volumes, and up to 2015 the volumes published are 31 (up to entry ''Licayrac''). The two subsequent fasciscules are, unlike earlier fasciscules, selective in content.
External links
The ''Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques'' (''DHGE'')at ''Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique''
The ''Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques'' (''DHGE'')at Archive.org
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