152 reels of microfilm.
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. Researchers in the University of Notre Dame Archives may also use a less detailed calendar of later material.
The Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith had control over all Roman Catholic missionary activity from the time of its foundation by Gregory XV in 1622. It had authority over the Catholic Church in the United States until 1908. It consisted of a Cardinal Prefect and other cardinals appointed by the pope. They held a regular monthly meeting and formed commissions to deal with particular problems. In weekly meetings the Cardinal Prefect and the Secretary of the Congregation dealt with routine matters. Every two months the pope met with members of the congregation to answer questions that required his authority.
Records pertaining to the United States and territories that became part of it; consisting of 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 Latin, Italian, French, and English.