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Subject: [ACADIAN-CAJUN] Arch-diocese of New Orleans Records in the University of Notre Dame Archives
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 18:00:52 -0500

Many of the church records from the Arch-Diocese of New Orleans were
sent to the University of Notre Dame for archival purposes. The url for
the archived records is

http://www.archives.nd.edu/guide/80.htm

Below is the introduction on the UND site for the records.

These include the marriage dispensations and other very facinating
records!

Stanley LeBlanc
http://www.thecajuns.com

*** UND Intro ***
Catholic Church. Archdiocese of New Orleans (La.)
Collection, 1576-1897 (bulk 1786-1897).
34 linear feet.

Established in 1793 as the Diocese of Louisiana and the Floridas, it
took in all the territory from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean
and from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico except the territory of the
Diocese of Baltimore (i.e., territory belonging to the United States).
Before 1793 Louisiana had been under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of
Santiago de Cuba, before 1762 under the authority of the Diocese of
Quebec.

Chiefly papers of bishops Luis Penalver y Cardenas, 1793-1810; Louis
Guillaume-Valentin Dubourg, 1815-1826; Joseph Rosati, CM, apostolic
administrator, 1827-1829; Leo Raymond de Neckère, 1829-1833; Anthony
Blanc, 1835-1860; Jean Marie Odin, 1861-1870; Napoléon J. Perché,
1870-1883; Francis X. Leray, 1883-1887; and Francis Janssens, 1888-1897.


Other correspondents include the Capuchin bishop, Cyril Antonio Sieni,
better known as Bishop Cyril of Barcelona, who was the first resident
bishop to have jurisdiction over Louisiana, 1784-1793; Rev. Thomas
Hassett, administrator of Louisiana, 1801-1803; Father Antonio de
Sedella, auxiliary vicar and pastor of the parish of St. Louis, New
Orleans, who was a leader in the power disputes that plagued the new
diocese in the first years of the nineteenth century; and Frederick
Lacheze of Guadelope, West Indies (1820s and 1830s).

Also a microfilm copy of a diary kept by Archbishop Jean Marie Odin.

A microfilm edition (12 reels) of the records of the Diocese of
Louisiana and the Floridas (1576-1803) with an accompanying guide has
been published by the University of Notre Dame Archives (1967).

Gift of Francis Janssens, Archbishop of New Orleans, in the 1890s.

ANO : CANO; MANO

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