GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
New Mexico: NM-57

Our Lady of Guadalupe Church
205 Don Fernando Street
P.O. Box 1846
Taos, NM 87571

Phone: 505-758-9208

 

History: Our Lady of Guadalupe/ Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe/ San Fernando Church, Taos, Taos County, New Mexico, has been a diverse parish with parishioners of Native (e.g. Genízaro, Mestizos, Taos, Tiwa) and non-Native American ancestry in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe (Archives: Santa Fe, New Mexico). Santa Fe arch/diocesan priests at Our Lady of Guadalupe have attended to St. Jerome/ San Gerónimo Mission (Taos, Tiwa), Taos Pueblo, 1852-present.      

St. Jerome Mission:

1701-1952

Franciscans (Santo Evangelico Province) (Archives: Puebla, Mexico) established and administered/attended to San Gerónimo Mission

1852-present

Santa Fe arch/diocesan priests at Our Lady of Guadalupe have attended to St. Jerome/ San Heronimo

1887-1896 (closed)

Santa Fe arch/diocesan priests established and staffed the Taos School (Taos, Tiwa), Taos Pueblo

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:

Some Inclusive dates: 1902-ongoing

Volume: Several volumes 

Description: Sacramental records (e.g. baptisms, marriages, burials) for Native American parishioners of St. Jerome Mission, which are in Latin until the early 1900s.   

 

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

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