Catholicism in Louisiana
Archdiocesan Archives
The archives has four main sections: sacramental and cemetery records (1718 – ca. 1900); archdiocesan historical records (Spanish colonial period – present); several manuscript collections (e.g. Baudier Collection); and a small research library.
Digitized Sacramental Records in the Archives
Among the most important Louisiana resources available to scholars are the extensive, well-maintained, and searchable sacramental registers, which record baptisms, confirmations, marriages, and burials of individuals. Because sacramental registers detail the life history of the local community over time, they have always been recognized by church officials as having unique and enduring value. More importantly, they illustrate the Catholic heritage of families that are passed from one generation to another.
Royal Military Hospital Sacramental Records
- Royal Military Hospital, New Orleans, 1786 – 1796 part 1
- Royal Military Hospital, New Orleans, 1786 – 1796 part 2
St. Bernard Sacramental Records
St. John the Baptist Sacramental Records
- St. John the Baptist, Edgard, Baptism, 1772 -1791
- St. John the Baptist, Edgard, Baptism, 1792-1818 part 1
- St. John the Baptist, Edgard, Baptism, 1792-1818 part 2
- St. John the Baptist, Edgard, Marriage, 1772 – 1807
St. Louis Cathedral Sacramental Records
- St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Baptism, 1777-1783 index
- St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Baptism, 1777-1783
- St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Baptism, 1783 – 1786 index
- St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Baptism 1783-1786
- St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Baptism, 1786 – 1792 index
- St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Baptism, 1786-1792
- St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Baptism, 1792-1798 index
- St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Baptism, 1792-1798
- St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Baptism, 1798-1801 index
- St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Baptism, 1798-1801
- St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Baptism, 1801-1804 index
- St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Baptism, 1801-1802 part 1
- St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Baptism, 1802-1804 part 2
- St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Baptism, 1804-1804 part 3
- St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Baptism, 1804-1805 index
- St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Baptism, 1804-1805 part 1
- St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Baptism, 1805-1805 part 2
- St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Baptism, 1805-1807 index
- St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Baptism, 1805-1806 part 1
- St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Baptism, 1806-1807 part 2
- St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Baptism, 1807-1809 index
- St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Baptism, 1807-1808 part 1
- St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Baptism, 1808-1809 part 2
- St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Baptism, 1809-1809 part 3
- St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Baptism, 1809-1811 index
- St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Baptism, 1809-1810
- St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Baptism, 1811-1812 index
- St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Baptism, 1811-1811 part 1
- St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Baptism, 1810-1811 part 2
- St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Baptism, 1811-1812 part 2
Methodism in Louisiana
Annual Conference Journals/Minutes
These volumes were published by the Louisiana Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church and its predecessor conferences.
- Methodist Episcopal Church, South – Louisiana Conference (1847-1939)
- Methodist Episcopal Church – Mississippi Mission Conference (1865-1869)
- Methodist Episcopal Church – Louisiana Conference (1869-1938)
- Methodist Episcopal Church – Gulf Conference (1893-1926)
- Methodist Episcopal Church – Southern Conference (1927-1939)
- Methodist Protestant Church – Louisiana Conference (1901-1939)
- Church of the United Brethren in Christ – Louisiana Conference (1911-1915)
- Methodist Church, Central Jurisdiction – Louisiana Conference (1939-1967)
- Methodist Church, South Central Jurisdiction – Louisiana Conference (1940-1967)
- United Methodist Church – Louisiana Conference (1968-2015)
New Orleans Christian Advocate
This weekly newspaper was published by the Methodist Episcopal Church South conference in Louisiana in partnership with the following additional conferences: Alabama (1850-1881), Arkansas (1850), Mississippi (1850-1946), Mobile (1866-1870), Montgomery (1866-1870), and North Mississippi (1883-1946).
Additional Louisiana Methodist Publications
- Becoming One People: A History of Louisiana Methodism. Author: Walter N. Vernon. (La: History Task Group, Commission on Archives and History, Louisiana Conference, United Methodist Church, 1987).
- Methodism Along The Bayou: A History of Methodism in Houma and Terrebonne Parish. Author: Timothy Hebert. (Utica, Ky: McDowell, 1994).
- The Historical Register of the Louisiana Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. Author: Timothy Hebert. (La: Louisiana Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, 2004).