Reference Books
(1822-present )
PAHRC library consists mainly of texts dealing with American Catholic life from a local, diocesan, or national perspective. Included among the thousands of volumes in our collection are various directories, encyclopedias, and history books produced in the United Kingdom, nationally, or by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia which are featured below.
Official Catholic Directory of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, 1930
Contents
Directories - Archdiocese of Philadelphia
Catholic Register of the Churches and Clergy of the Diocese of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Peter F.
Cunningham, Various Dates. (Individual issues available for the following years: 1862 and 1863)
Catholic Standard and Times Almanac. Philadelphia: Catholic Standard and Times
Publishing Company, Various Dates. (Individual issues available for the following years: 1907-1909, 1911-1912, 1915, 1919-1920)
Official Catholic Directory of the Philadelphia Archdiocese and Catholic Standard and Times
Almanac. Philadelphia: Catholic Standard and Times Publishing Company, Various Dates. (Individual issues are available for the following years: 1921 and 1922)
Official Catholic Directory of the Philadelphia Archdiocese. Philadelphia: Catholic Standard and
Times Publishing Company, Various Dates. (Individual issues are available for the following years: 1925 and 1926)
Official Catholic Directory of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Statistical Handbook, Telephone
Guide to all Rectories, Convents and Institutions. Philadelphia: Catholic Standard and Times Publishing Company, Various Dates. (Individual issues available for the following years: 1927-1932, 1934, 1936, 1940-1941)
The Catholic Directory, Official Directory of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Philadelphia:
Jefferies & Manz, Various Dates. (Individual issues available for the following years: 1946, 1949-1950)
The Catholic Directory, Official Directory of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Philadelphia:
Jefferies & Manz, Various Dates. (Individual, or bi-annual issues available for the following years: 1951-1956)
The Catholic Directory, Official Directory of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Philadelphia:
Catholic Standard and Times Publishing Company, Various Dates. (Individual, or bi-annual issues available for the following years: 1956-Present)
Directories - Other
Catholic Almanac; or, Laity’s Directory for 1833. Baltimore, MD: James Myers, Sands & Neilson
Publishers, 1833.
Hoffmanns’ Catholic Directory, Almanac, and Clergy List. Milwaukee, WI: Hoffmann Brothers,
Various Dates. (Individual issues available for the following years: 1889-1899)
Metropolitan Catholic Almanac and Laity’s Directory. Baltimore, MD: Fielding Lucas, Jr.,
Various Dates. (Individual issues available for the following years: 1838-1858)
Metropolitan Catholic Almanac and Laity’s Directory. Baltimore, MD: John Murphy Publishers,
Various Dates. (Individual issues available for the following years: 1859-1863)
Sadlier’s Catholic Almanac and Ordo. New York: D & J Sadlier and Company, Various Dates.
(Individual issues available for the following years: 1864-1888)
The Catholic Directory, Almanac, and Clergy List. Milwaukee, WI: M.H. Wiltzius and Company,
Various Dates. (Individual issues available for the following years: 1900-1912)
The Laity’s Directory to the Church Service for 1822. New York, 1822.
The Official Catholic Directory. New York: P.J. Kenedy and Sons, Various Dates. (Individual
issues available for the following years: 1914-Present)
United States Catholic Almanac; or, Laity’s Directory. Baltimore, MD: James Myers, Sands &
Neilson Publishers, Various Dates. (Individual issues available for the following years: 1834-1837)
Encyclopedias
Attwater, Donald, ed. A Catholic Dictionary, The Catholic Encyclopedic Dictionary. New York:
Thomas More Book Club, 1953. [552 pp.]
Glazier, Michael and Thomas J. Shelley, eds. The Encyclopedia of American Catholic History.
Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1997. [1567 pp.]
New Catholic Encyclopedia. Washington, D.C.: Publishers Guild, 1979. [17 vols.]
Steinmueller, John E. and Kathryn Sullivan. Catholic Biblical Encyclopedia – Old Testament.
New York: Joseph F. Wagner Publishers, 1959. [1163 pp.]
Steinmueller, John E. and Kathryn Sullivan. Catholic Biblical Encyclopedia – New Testament.
New York: Joseph F. Wagner Publishers, 1950. [702 pp.]
Stravinskas, Rev. Peter M.J. Our Sunday Visitor’s Catholic Encyclopedia. Huntington, IN: Our
Sunday Visitor Publishing Division, 1991. [1007 pp.]
The Catholic Encyclopedia. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1976. [612 pp.]
The Catholic Encyclopedia, An International Work of Reference of the Constitution, Doctrine,
Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church. New York: Encyclopedia Press, 1914. [15 vols. with index]
The Catholic Encyclopedia, An International Work of Reference of the Constitution, Doctrine,
Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church - Supplement I, Volume XVII. New York:
Encyclopedia Press, 1922. [786 pp.]
The Catholic Heritage Encyclopedia. Union City, N.J.: John J. Crawley, 1966 [320 pp.]
Directories - Propaganda Fide Archives
Kenneally, Finbar, O.F.M. United States Documents in the Propaganda Fide Archives – A
Calendar. First Series, Volumes I-VII. Washington, D.C.: Academy of American Franciscan History, 1966-1977. (Various Dates of Issue)
Kenneally, Finbar, O.F.M. United States Documents in the Propaganda Fide Archives – A
Calendar Index, Volumes I-VII. Washington, D.C.: Academy of American Franciscan History, 1981.
Debevec, Anton, et al. United States Documents in the Propaganda Fide Archives – A Calendar.
Volumes VIII-XI. Washington, D.C.: Academy of American Franciscan History, 1980-1987. (Various Dates of Issue)
Directories – United Kingdom
A (The) Complete Catholic Directory, Almanack, and Registry. Dublin, 1837. Various Dates.
(Individual issues available for the following years: 1837-1838, 1840-1841, 1843-1848)
The Catholic Directory, Ecclesiastical Register and Almanac. London: Burns & Oates. Various
Dates. (Individual issues available for the following years: 1860, 1875-1881)
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