The Office of Archives and Records serves as the official repository for the records of the Archdiocese of New Orleans. This office is responsible for developing and monitoring an efficient records-management program for identifying, collecting, describing, protecting, and making available the historical records of the archdiocese.

The present Archdiocese of New Orleans includes eight civil parishes in the greater New Orleans area: Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. John, St. Tammany, and Washington. In addition to housing materials for these civil parishes, the archives also holds material from earlier periods when the archdiocesan boundaries included most of the present-day state of Louisiana.

The Office of Archives and Records holds approximately 6,000 cubic feet of boxed archival material (administrative files, property files, organizational files, parish visitation reports, institutional histories, photograph collections); 528 bound volumes of primary-source material (funeral expenses, pulpit announcements, diaries, scrapbooks, minute books); and approximately 1,500 sacramental registers. Archives also holds secondary-source material, such as newspapers and parish histories.

Archdiocese of New Orleans
Office of Archives and Records
7887 Walmsley Ave.
New Orleans, LA 70125-3496
[email protected]
504-861-6241