The Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques is a French-language encyclopaedic to the church history published at Brepols in Turnhout. Chief editors are Luc Courtois, professor at the Belgian University of Catholique de Louvain and Eddy Louchez, professor at the University of Catholique de Louvain and the Catholic University of Leuven.
The encyclopedia describes both people such as saints, church leaders, theological and philosophical persons as well as church areas, churches and monasteries.
It was the later French Cardinal Baudrillart, at that time the rector of the Institute Catholique de Paris, who started this encyclopedia in 1908 with the Swiss byzantineist Albert Vogt and the French father Urbain Rouziès. In 1909 the first part appeared, and in 1912 the first band was published in which a number of parts were bundled.
After Baudrillart, the editorial editor Albert De Meyer (1930-1952) came in Belgian hands, monetailist Etienne Van Cauwenbergh (1952-1960) and canon Roger Aubert (1960-2006).
Anno 2015 there are 185 parts (to Licayrac) and 31 bundled tires (until Licayrac) appeared. In total, there are more than 73,000 lemates in the encyclopedia.
In 2009, the full encyclopedia was digitized on Brepolis, the website with online publications of Brepols publisher.
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