- Lamott, Father John Henry, History of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati
1821-1921, 430 pages
Notes: This is an in-depth history of
the first one-hundred years of the Archdiocese. It includes
information on the bishops, founding clergy, parishes, religious
orders, and institutions. In addition to a diocesan history all the
priests were listed with dates and places of birth and death; see
"Priests of the Cincinnati Archdiocese," pages 351-399)
Mount St. Mary's Seminary; Xavier University; Miami University (King
Library); Ohio Historical Society; Public Library of Cincinnati and
Hamilton County; University of Cincinnati; University of Dayton
- Robisch, Mary Willke, A tour in celebration: sesquicentennial
anniversary of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, 1821-1971. 9 pages
Notes: Based on material contributed by Paul F. Hurst, Rev. Anselm F.
Boeke, and Raymond C. Kammerer.
University of Dayton
- Stritch, Father Alfred G., The Church of Cincinnati, 1821- 1971,
100 pages
(Reprint of articles published in The Catholic Telegraph)
Mount St. Mary's Seminary; University of Dayton; University of
Cincinnati, Ohio Historical Society; Xavier University
- Waring, Sister Mary Grace, History of the educational work of the
Sisters of Mercy in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, 1941.
University of Cincinnati
- Williams, Peter W., Catholicism militant: the public face of the
Archdiocese of Cincinnati, 1900-1960, Notre Dame, Ind.: University
of Notre Dame, c1980. 63 pages
University of Cincinnati; Mount Saint Mary Seminary
Cincinnati Catholic History:
Note: Bibliographical citations for parishes in Hamilton County
are found under Parish Profiles
- Bennish, Father Lee J., S.J., Continuity and Change : Xavier
University, 1831-1981, Chicago : Loyola University Press, 1981.
252 pages.
Mount Saint Mary Seminary; Xavier University
- Catholic Institute (Cincinnati, Ohio), History and organization of
the Catholic Institute in Cincinnati, O. or Geschichte und
Organisation des katholischen Instituts in Cincinnati, O.,
Cincinnati, Ohio : Wahrheits-Freund Job Office, 1860. 47 pages.
(text in English and German)
Available on microfiche from University Microfilms International, Ann
Arbor, Michigan
Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
- Historical booklet and program of the Convention of the Federated
Colored Catholics of the United States: and of the Catholic Conference
on Negro Industrial problems, Holy Trinity Church Auditorium,
Cincinnati, Ohio, September 1-2-3rd, 1928. 72 pages
Contents: St. Ann Church, Holy Trinity Church and School, Archbishop
McNicholas' message to the colored people of the Archdiocese, Local
committees of convention, Colored bishop and priests, African pope,
Patrons and contributors.
Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
- Madigan, Virginia E., An historical and descriptive study of the
Catholic foster care program in Cincinnati, Cincinnati, 1939.
University of Cincinnati; Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton
County
- McCann, Sister Mary Agnes, The history of Mother Seton's
daughters, the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1809-1923,
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1917-23. 3 volumes.
Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County; Mount Saint Mary
Seminary
- Perko, F. Michael, A time to favor Zion: the ecology of religion
and school development on the urban frontier, Cincinnati, 1830-1870,
DeKalb, Ill.: Educational Studies Press, Northern Illinois University,
1988. 264 pages
Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County; Xavier University
- Rogers, Virgil Alan, The Irish in Cincinnati, 1860-1870: a typical
experience, 1972. 99 pages
University of Cincinnati
- Schnell, Pastor, Papers, June 1840. 2 pages
Notes: Letter is written in German with accompanying English
translation. The letter is from Schnell of Dettinger, Germany to Mayor
Georg Keck of Bittelbronn, regarding the Catholic Church in America. The
letter includes a summary of an article by Franz Ludwig Huber describing
Cincinnati's religious life, churches, Catholic book stores, and German
newspapers.
Ohio Historical Society
- Souvenir album of American cities: Catholic churches of Cincinnati
and Hamilton County, Ohio, edition, Cincinnati: United States
Church Album Publishing Co., 1896. 261 pages
Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County; Ohio Historical
Society; University of Dayton; Mount Saint Mary Seminary
- Yesterday, today and tomorrow: reflections on the first ten years
of the Community of Hope, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1968-1978. 32 pages
Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
Seminary History:
- Hussey, Father M. Edmund, A history of the seminaries of the
Archdiocese of Cincinnati, 1829-1979, Norwood, Ohio: Mt. St.
Mary's Seminary of the West, 1979. 72 pages
(with a preface by Joseph L. Bernardin)
University of Cincinnati; Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton
County; Xavier University; University of Dayton
- Kelly, Michael J., and Kirwin, James M., History of Mt. St. Mary's
Seminary of the West, Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati: Keating, 1894.
409 pages
University of Cincinnati; University of Dayton; Mount Saint Mary
Seminary
- Mount Saint Mary Seminary of the West; a gateway to the priesthood,
1829-1929, Cincinnati: Bachmeyer-Lutmer Press, 1930?. 76 pages
University of Dayton; Mount Saint Mary Seminary.
Clergy, Bishops, and Archbishops of the
Archdiocese:
- Alter, Karl Joseph, Archbishop, The mind of an archbishop: a study
of man's essential relationship to God, church, country, and fellow
man as expressed in the writings of the most Rev. Karl J. Alter,
Cincinnati: Archdiocese of Cincinnati, 1960. 406 pages.
Edited by Father Maurice Reardon with foreward by The Most Rev. Paul F.
Leibold.
Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
- The anniversary addresses of the priests and people of the Diocese
of Cincinnati: presented at the silver jubilee, or celebration of the
twenty-fifth anniversary of the episcopate of the Most Rev. John
Baptist Purcell, D.D., Archbishop of Cincinnati, Ohio, October 13,
1858 : to which is added a historical sketch of the diocese, and the
first and second letters of the Provincial Council, Cincinnati:
John P. Walsh, bookseller and stationer, 1858.
Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County; Ohio Historical
Society; Mount Saint Mary Seminary
- McCann, Sister Mary Agnes, Archbishop Purcell and the Archdiocese
of Cincinnati; a study based on original sources, Washington, D.
C. : 1918. 108 pages
Mount Saint Mary Seminary
- Bass, Darr, and Uhlman, Tom, Photo directory of Archdiocese of
Cincinnati priests, Cincinnati: Catholic Telegraph, 1990. 26
pages.
Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
- Boheme, Father Ghislenus J., Register, 1832-1841 (early
Catholic missionary who kept a register relating to the Diocese of
Cincinnati and dioceses in Indiana and Michigan)
Detroit Public Library, Burton Historical Collection
- Ceremony of consecration of the Most Reverend George John Rehring:
Titular bishop of Lunda, auxiliary bishop of Cincinnati, Cathedral of
St. Peter in Chains, Feast of the Holy Rosary, October seventh,
Nineteen hundred and thirty-seven 47 pages
Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
- Hussey, Father M. Edmund, The 1878 financial failure of Archbishop
Purcell, Cincinnati: 1978?. 41 pages
Notes: Reprinted from the Cincinnati Historical Society Bulletin,
v. 36, Spring 1978, No. 1.
University of Dayton; Mount Saint Mary Seminary
- McNicholas, John T., Archbishop, Mosaic of a bishop; an
autobiographical appreciation of John T. McNicholas, late archbishop
of Cincinnati, as gained from his addresses, sermons and
correspondence, Cincinnati: Archdiocese of Cincinnati, 1957. 365
pages. Introduced by Karl J. Alter, Archbishop of Cincinnati and
designed by Maurice E. Reardon.
Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
- Petit, Sister Loretta, O.P., Friar in the Wilderness: Edward
Dominic Fenwick, O.P., 1996.
Available from Project Opus, 5082 West Jackson Blvd., Chicago, IL 60644.
- Purcell, John Baptist, Archbishop, To the Very Rev. and Rev.
clergy of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Cincinnati: 1864. 4 pages
University of Dayton
- Schauinger, J. Herman, Stephen T. Badin, Priest in the Wilderness,
1968.
Badin was an early Ohio priest. Available from University Microfilms
International, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Lane Public Library (Hamilton); Butler County Historical Society
(Hamilton)
Archdiocesan Synods:
- Elder, William Henry, Archbishop, Synodus dioecesana
Cincinnatensis secunda, diebus 19, 20, 21 Octobris, A.D. 1886 in
ecclesia metropolitana St. Petri in Vinculis Cincinnati habita, ab
Illmo. ac Revmo. Gulielmo Henrico Elder. 82 pages
Notes: This is an account of the second diocesan synod (council) which
was held in October, 1886, under the direction of Archbishop Elder.
University of Dayton
- Elder, William Henry, Archbishop, Synodus dioecesana
Cincinnatensis tertia, habita die 9a novembris, 1898, in ecclesia
metropolitana St. Petri in Vinculis, ab Gulielmo Henrico Elder,
Archiepiscopo Cincinnatensi, Cincinnati: J. Berning, 1899? 161
pages
Notes: This is an account of the third diocesan synod (council) which
was held in November, 1898, under the direction of Archbishop Elder.
University of Dayton; Mount Saint Mary Seminary
- Moeller, Henry, Archbishop, Synodus dioecesana Cincinnatensis
quarta, habita die 14 decembris 1920 in ecclesia metropolitana S.
Petri in Vinculis ab Archiepo Henrico Moeller, Cincinnati: J.
Berning, 1921? 180 pages
Notes: This is an account of the fourth diocesan synod (council) which
was held in December, 1920, under the direction of Archbishop Moeller.
University of Dayton
- Alter, Karl J., Archbishop, Fifth synod of the Archdiocese of
Cincinnati celebrated December 14, 1954, by His Grace, the Most
Reverend Karl J. Alter, Cincinnati: St. Monica's Cathedral 1954?
221 pages
University of Dayton; Mount Saint Mary Seminary
- Solemn session, the Fifth Synod of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati,
Saint Monica Cathedral, Cincinnati, Ohio, Dec. 14, 1954. 8 pages
Notes: This was bound with Clerus Cincinnatensis, volumes 3-4,
1948-1954.
University of Dayton
- Leibold, Paul Francis, Archbishop, Synod 1971; sixth synod of the
Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Cincinnati: 1971.
University of Dayton
Periodicals:
- Clerus Cincinnatensis, "Official publication of the clergy of
the Archdiocese of Cincinnati"
Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
volume 2, number 1 (May 1942) through volume 7, number 1 (April 1977);
volume 9, number 1 (June 1990)
Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
- The Catholic Telegraph-Register, Cincinnati, Ohio: The
Archdiocese.
Notes: This is the official weekly newspaper of the Archdiocese of
Cincinnati.
Available on microfilm for October 22, 1831-December 23, 1988 at Public
Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.
Available on four microfilms covering from 1831 to 1850 at University of
Cincinnati.
Available for the years since 1987 at Xavier University.
Available at Ohio Historical Society for October 22, 1831-November 20,
1835 and some later issues beginning with September 12, 1918.
- Third Order Secular of St. Francis (Franciscans), St. Franziskus
Bote, Cincinnati: St. Franziskus Bote.
Notes: This periodical of the secular Franciscans was published for
twenty-six years between 1892 and 1917. It is assumed that this was the
lifespan of the publication because these are the only issues available
at the University of Dayton.
- Timpe, Georg, "Der Wahrheits-Freund" (gegrundet 20. Juli 1837):
zum Jahrhundertgedenken der katholischen deutschen Presse in den
Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, 1937, 11 pages
(Record of 100 years of the German Catholic Press in the United States
of America)
Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County; Ohio Historical
Society
- "Der Wahrheits-Freund", Cincinnati: Father John M. Henni.
Notes: This was the first German Catholic newspaper published in the
United States. It was a weekly newspaper of "Catholic life, work, and
knowledge," literally translated as "The Truth's Friend." It included
stories about Germany, local parishes in Southwest Ohio and Northern
Kentucky, as well as obituaries of local people.
Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
Available from 20 July 1837-19 June 1907 at University of Cincinnati;
Family History Library (5 September 1900-31 December 1902) on film
#44997
General Ohio and United States Catholic
History (with references to the Archdiocese of Cincinnati):
- Catholic Knights of Ohio, The Fullness of fraternalism: an
historical account of the Catholic Knights of Ohio upon the occasion
of its 75th diamond jubilee anniversary, Cleveland, Ohio: Catholic
Knights of Ohio, c1966. 64 pages
University of Dayton
- Hamilton, Albert, The Catholic journey through Ohio, Columbus
: Catholic Conference of Ohio, 1976. 86 pages
Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County; University of
Cincinnati; Xavier University; University of Dayton
- Shea, John, History of the Catholic Church within the limits of
the United States, from the first attempted colonization to the
present time; with portraits, views, maps, and facsimiles, New
York, 1892. 727 pages.
Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County; Mount Saint Mary
Seminary
Additional sources can be located at Catholic
Americana: A Selected Bibliography (updated
link 5/15/15)
(compiled by the University of Notre Dame)
Contact Information for Selected
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Cincinnati Museum Center
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Mount
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Eugene H. Maly Memorial Library
6616 Beechmont Ave.
Cincinnati, Ohio 45230-2091
(513) 231-2223
Ohio
Historical
Society
Archives/Library
1982 Velma Ave.
Columbus, Ohio 43211
(614) 297-2510
Public
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Cincinnati, Ohio 45202-2071
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University of
Cincinnati
Martin Luther King and Campus Drive
Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0033
(513) 556-1872
University
of Dayton
Roesch Library
300 College Park
Dayton, Ohio 45469-1360
(937) 229-4234
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See also University
of
Dayton U.S. Catholic Collection
Xavier
University
McDonald Library
3800 Victory Parkway
Cincinnati, Ohio 45207-5211
(513) 745-3881
University of Notre
Dame Archives (updated
5/15/15)
607 Hesburgh Library
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
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