GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 4: Outside United States
Vatican City: VA2-1

Catholic Church. Vatican Secret Archives
Archivum Secretum Vaticanum
00120 Città del Vaticano

Phone: 39 06.698.83314 or 39 06.698.83211

 

Hours: See website

Restrictions: Some restrictions apply

Copying facilities: Yes

 

History:

4th Century	The Vatican library and archives originated in the Fourth Century with the Scrinium
1610	Pope Paul V established the Archivum Secretum Vaticanum or Vatican Secret Archives as the repository of the Roman pontiffs
1810	Napoleon moved the Vatican Archives to Paris
1817	The Vatican Archives was restored at the Vatican
1870	Italy confiscated those holdings kept outside of the Vatican, which are held today by the Roman State Archives

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans in the United States: Unknown. For more information, see: Francis X. Blouin, Jr., General Editor. Vatican Archives: An Inventory and Guide to Historical Documents of the Holy See, Oxford University Press, 1998. 

 

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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