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Archives Arcimboldi
recorder of ordinations. Reports from these several officials are submitted and published triennially, and efforts are made from time to time to add to the already valuable collection of archives such material as may appear to be worthy of preservation.
The Reformed Church in America (Dutch Reformed Church) has a special fire-proof room set apart for its archives in the Sage Library at New Brunswick, N. J. Here are deposited 7. The Re- all the minutes of the coetus, 1737-71;
formed of the old provisional synods, 1771-99;
Churches, of the general synod, 1794 to present Dutch and time; of the four particular synods,
German, except the volumes yet in use; of many of the classes, all having been invited to deposit their records here; and of many of the churches; also, in part, of the benevolent boards. Here also are to be found the original documents and letters, or transcripts of the same (about 2,000 pages), secured by the historian, J. Romeyn Brodhead, in Holland in 1841-43; also transcripts of the minutes of the Classis of Amsterdam, and of the Synod of North Holland, so far as these relate to America; and transcripts of the correspondence between these Holland bodies and the churches and early ecclesiastical bodies in America, secured by the Rev. Dr. E. T. Corwin, in Holland, in 1897-98, bound in fifteen volumes, and amounting to about 4,000 pages. A large part of this material has been printed at the expense of the State of New York, in the six volumes styled Ecclesiastical Records of the State of New York (1901-06). Consult the article Amsterdam Correspondence in the Papers of the American Society of Church Hist., viii. (1897), pp. 81-107; the introduction to Ecclesiastical Records of New York, vol. i., pp. 5-48; the Journal of the Presbyterian Historical Society, vol. i., No. 2 (Dec, 1901), pp. 161-188; Digest of Constitutional and Synodical Legislation of the Reformed Church in America (1906), articles Archives, Amsterdam Correspondence, General Synod, Synodical Archives, etc. The Reformed Church in the United States (German Reformed Church) has preserved in the library of the Historical Society of Lancaster, Pa., transcripts of original documents, embracing correspondence with Holland. The various synods and classes have also their manuscript minutes. Many official documents have been published by the several States.
Bibliography: For list of early works consult the article "Archivwesen, kirchliches " in Hauck-Herzog, RE, i. 785. General works: G. Holtzinger, Katechismus der Registrator und Archivkunde, Leipsic, 1883; F. Frisch. Anleitung zur Einrichtung und Fiihrung der Gemeinde-Registraturen, Stuttgart, 1885; K. A. H. Burkhardt, Handbuch und Addressbuch der deutschen Archive, Leipsic. 1887; H. Breslau, Vrkundenlehre,i., chap, v., Die Archive, Leipsic, 1889; F. von Loher, Archivkunde, Paderborn. 1890; F. von Helfert, Staatliches Archivwesen, Vienna, 1893; the Archivale Zeitschrift, vols, i.-xiii., ed. F. von Loher, Munich, 1876-89, new series ed. L. von Rockinger, 1889 sqq. For the Evangelical Church of Germany, E. W. Kuhnert, rraktische Wmke zur Einrichtung einer Pfarrregistratur, Hanover, 1893-94; A. Kluge, Das Kirchenarchiv , Barren, 1895. For the papal archives: P. Hinschius, Das Kirchenrecht, i. 432 sqq., Berlin, 1869; L. P. Gachard, ies Archives du Vatican, Brussels, 1874; G. B. de Rossi,
De origine, historia, indicibus, scrinii el bibliothecce sedis apostolicce, Rome, 1886; S. Lowenfeld, Geschichle des papstlichen Archivs bis zum Jahre 1817 and Zur neuesten Geschichte des papstlichen Archivs, in Hislorisches Taschenbuch, ed. W Maurenbrecher, 6th ser. 5-6, Leipsic. 1886- 87; A. Pieper, Romische Archive, in the Romische Quartalschrift, i., Rome, 1887; Von Pflugk-Hartung, Ueber Archive und Register der Papste, in ZKG, xii., Gotha, 1890
ARCHONTICI (ar-cen'ti-sai or -si). See Gnosticism.
ARCHPRESBYTER. See Archdeacon.
ARCIMBOLDI, ar"chim-bol'di, GIOVANNI AN- GELO: Archbishop of Milan 1550-55; d. at Milan Apr. 6, 1555. He belonged to an old and famous family in Milan, where his father was senator and councilor and his uncle archbishop. Before reaching his thirtieth year, he was apostolic protonotary and referendary to Leo X., who employed him in various financial matters connected with the building of St. Peter's, and on Dec. 2, 1514, named him commissary-general of the indulgence for a large part of Germany and for Scandinavia, with the rank and powers of a legate a latere. Another document of September, 1516, entrusted him with the functions of a political peacemaker in Sweden. He spent some time in North Germany, especially at Liibeck and Hamburg, and made full use of his powers, which included various means of raising money by the sale of titles and privileges. He then went through the diocese of Ratzeburg to Holstein, and came in 1516 or 1517 to Copenhagen. In return for a payment of 1100 Rhenish florins, King Christian granted him license to proclaim his indulgences in Denmark. He reached Sweden in March, 1518, having promised Christian to work for him and his policy of union between the three Scandinavian kingdoms. Sten Sture the younger, then viceroy, as leader of the national party, was striving for the complete independence of Sweden, and at this time was especially involved in a struggle with the prelates of the union party; he had forced, sword in hand, the resignation of the ambitious and stubborn archbishop Gustav Trolle. At the end of the year, Arcimboldi was in Stockholm and Upsala; and Sten Sture spared no pains to win over the clever and powerful legate, and fully succeeded. At the assembly of Arboga in December, 1518, the appointed peacemaker confirmed the canonically unjust sentence of the Swedish Diet against Gustav Trolle, induced probably by the rich presents he received and by the hope of gaining the metropolitan dignity. Meantime he took in large sums of money from all Sweden and Norway in return for his indulgences. But Christian II. was naturally little pleased with the behavior of the legate; besides complaining to the pope, he seized his treasures, imprisoned his brother Antonio, and threatened to do the same to him. Arcimboldi saved himself by flight to Lund, then in Danish territory, whence he passed through Sweden again and so back to Liibeck, where the difference in his reception showed the approach of the Reformation, and where he found affixed to the churchdoors a bull obtained from the pope by Christian, excommunicating Sten Sture and all who had aided him in the deposition of Trolle. He returned to Rome and succeeded in changing the pope's
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