GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 1: Eastern United States
Delaware: DE-2

Catholic Church. Diocese of Wilmington. Archives
8 Old Church Road (physical address; at Montchanin Road, Route 100, enter from St. Joseph on Brandywine Church parking lot) 
Greenville, DE 19807
P.O. Box 2030
Wilmington, DE 19899

Email: See website
Phone: 302-655-0597

 

History: The Diocese of Wilmington was erected from territory in the Diocese of Philadelphia (Delaware) and Archdiocese of Baltimore (eastern Maryland and eastern Virginia), 1868. It lost its territory in Virginia, 1974, and it has evangelized Native Americans, 1990s-present.

1999-2010s	The Wilmington Diocese founded and maintained a Native American Ministry, among Native American Catholics (e.g. Nanticoke, Delaware), Wilmington and elsewhere in Delaware
2010s-present	St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church, Bear, has administered the Native American Ministry

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:

Inclusive dates: 1990s-ongoing

Volume: Several records

Description: 2 series with records.

 

/1 Diocesan Native American Ministry records

Inclusive dates: 1990s-ongoing

Volume: Few records

Description: Related correspondence, notes, clippings, and photographs.

 

/2 Sacramental records

Inclusive dates: 1990s-ongoing

Volume: Few records

Description: Records (e.g. baptisms, marriages, burials) for Native American parishioners of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church, Bear, Delaware.

 

Unless otherwise noted, the repository on this page holds (or held) the records described here and they are not held at the Marquette University Archives.

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