New Jersey Catholic History

Welcome to this research guide dedicated to reference sources related to various institutions, events, individuals, and other milestones that constitute the New Jersey Catholic History experience. This resource is designed to help you discover introductory reference works and published information related to this subject in various forms. This site will be updated on a regular basis with continued usership encouraged and appreciated.

The principal purpose of this Commission is to produce scholarly and popular histories of the Catholic Church and of Catholics in the State of New Jersey. This site provides information about different activities within Catholic New Jersey and helpful source links.

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New Jersey State Library. A presentation on the general history of Catholicism in New Jersey and what resources and repositories are useful for conducting research, including genealogy. Religion plays a important role in many people’s lives and religious institutions can serve as pillars of the community; the Catholic experience in New Jersey is no different. Records related to individuals, parishes, and Catholic organizations can provide a wealth of personal and contextual information, allowing us to reconstruct the lives and experiences of deceased priests, nuns, parishioners and others associated with the Catholic Church.

New Jersey and the rest of the United States was under the Ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Diocese of Baltimore from 1789-1808. Founded in 2008, HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items. HathiTrust offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law, computational access to the entire corpus for scholarly research, and other emerging services based on the combined collection. HathiTrust members steward the collection — the largest set of digitized books managed by academic and research libraries — under the aims of scholarly, not corporate, interests.

East Jersey was under the Ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Diocese of Philadelphia from 1808-1853. Founded in 2008, HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items. HathiTrust offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law, computational access to the entire corpus for scholarly research, and other emerging services based on the combined collection. HathiTrust members steward the collection — the largest set of digitized books managed by academic and research libraries — under the aims of scholarly, not corporate, interests.

West Jersey was under the Ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Diocese of Philadelphia from 1808-1853. Founded in 2008, HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items. HathiTrust offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law, computational access to the entire corpus for scholarly research, and other emerging services based on the combined collection. HathiTrust members steward the collection — the largest set of digitized books managed by academic and research libraries — under the aims of scholarly, not corporate, interests.

The American Catholic History Podcast tells stories of Catholic people, places, and events important in the Catholic history of America.

The materials in this collection span the years between 1934 and 1997, and includes much of Bishop Francis' own writings for his speeches and sermons. Race and religion is a frequent topic of his pieces, and the work done for his pastoral letter on racism, "Brothers and Sisters to Us," is included. There are also religious pamphlets and newspapers which feature articles by or about Bishop Francis.

2019-Present

2014-Present

2014-Present

1958-64

1886-1889