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• MPRF Catholic Church. Congregatio de Propaganda Fide: Microfilm

  The Propaganda Fide microfilm in the Notre Dame Archives includes only documents having to do with the Catholic Church in the United States or in territories that eventually became part of the United States. Documents (1622-1903), in Latin, Italian, French, and English, include decisions and decrees of the Congregation, correspondence with interested parties (often bishops and priests in the United States), and papers consulted or generated in monthly and weekly meetings, in audiences with the pope, or in meetings of commissions.

  In 1983, as number 18 of Studia Urbaniana, the Pontificia Universitas Urbaniana published an Inventory of the Historical Archives of the Sacred Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples or "De Propaganda Fide", new enlarged edition, by N. Kowalsky, OMI, and J. Metzler, OMI. This inventory serves as a general finding aid for all of the holdings of the Propaganda archives (not only those that pertain to the United States).

  Between 1966 and 1987 the Academy of American Franciscan History published United States Documents in the Propaganda Fide Archives, a calendar in eleven volumes covering 1673 to 1892. In general, our microfilm contains documents described in these volumes. For a description of documents in the New Series (1893- ) see our calendar below.

  • A1. Acta Sacrae Congregationis 1622-1878

    Minutes of monthly meetings, reports, and resolutions. [pp.21-26]

    • Reel 1 volumes 3-187 : 1622-1824
    • Reel 2 volumes 187-203 : 1824-1840
    • Reel 3 volumes 203-215 : 1840-1853
    • Reel 4 volumes 215, 218-222 : 1853-1858
    • Reel 5 volumes 222-224 : 1858-1860
    • Reel 6 volumes 225-226 (p.253) : 1861-1862
    • Reel 7 volumes 226-236 : 1862-1869
    • Reel 8 volumes 236 (p.2) - 240 (p.584) : 1870-1873
    • Reel 9 volumes 240 (p.812) - 244 : 1873-1876
    • Reel 110 volume 245 : 1876(?)
    • Reel 31 volume 246 (p.93-110) : 1877(?)
    • Reel 93 volume 246 (p.62-323) : 1878
    • Reel 10 volume 246 (p.324-770) : 1878

  • A2. Scritture volumes Originali : Riferite Nelle Congregazioni Generali (SOCG) 1602-1877

    Original documents assembled for discussion in general meetings, including correspondence and memoranda from bishops and missionaries, Acts of synods, apostolic visitations, and opinions of consultors. [pp.26-40]

    • Reel 33 volumes 1-145 [English History] : 1602(?),1626-1685(?)
    • Reel 10 volumes 135-297 [English History] : 1631-1650(?)
    • Reel 12 volumes 101-919 : 1626-1818
    • Reel 13 volumes 921-927 : 1819-1822
    • Reel 14 volumes 927(p.416) - 944(p405) : 1822-1829
    • Reel 15 volumes 944-971 : 1829-1850
    • Reel 16 volumes 972-980 : 1850-1855
    • Reel 17 volumes 981-___ (?) : 1855-1858
    • Reel 18 volumes 983-986 : 1858-1860
    • Reel 19 volumes 987-989 (p.575) : 1861-1862
    • Reel 20 volumes 989-992 : 1862-1865
    • Reel 21 volume 993 : 1866
    • Reel 22 volume 994 : 1867
    • Reel 23 volumes 995-996 : 1868-1869
    • Reel 24 volume 997 : 1870
    • Reel 25 volumes 998-1001 (p.233) : 1871-1873
    • Reel 26 volumes 1001 (p.866) - 1004 (p.783) : 1873-1875
    • Reel 27 volumes 1004 (p.784) - 1005 : 1875-1876
    • Reel 110 volumes 1006,1007 (pp.65-347) : 1876(?)
    • Reel 28 volume 1007 (p.348-475) : 1876(?)
    • Reel 29 volume 1007 (p.476-944) : 1877(?)
    • Reel 30 volume 1007 (p.945-996), 1007 bis (p.2-546) : 1877(?)
    • Reel 31 volume 1007 bis(p.547-898),1008 : 1877(?)

  • A3. Congregazioni volumes Particolari : (CP) 1667-1828

    Records of Special commissions of Cardinals generally appointed by the Pope to deal with particularly difficult cases. [pp.41-46]

    • Reel 32 America Settentrionale [sic] (vol 21,145,154) : 1667-77; 1808; 1816-28
    • Reel 32 Armenia [sic] (vol 158) : 1851-1860
    • Reel 36 Anglia (vol 116,146) : 1753,1814

  • A4. Scritture Riferite Nei Congressi (SC) 1634-1879

    Documents discussed not in general meetings but in routine weekly meetings. The first series contains letters from mission territories; the second contains documents that refer to Propaganda Fide or to its subordinates. [pp.48-60]

    FIRST SERIES [pp.49-51]

    • Reel 34 America Antille : 1634-1861
    • Reel 42 America Centrale 1-2 : 1673-1790
    • Reel 43 America Centrale 3 : 1791-1817
    • Reel 44 America Centrale 4 : 1818-1820
    • Reel 45 America Centrale 5 : 1813-1819
    • Reel 46 America Centrale 6 : 1819-1829
    • Reel 47 America Centrale 7 : 1821-1822

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