Archives of Spain - Churches
archives: (noun) a collection of historical documents or records providing information about a place, institution, or group of people.
Churches of Spain
Guide to Church Archives in Spain (Guía de los Archivos de la Iglesia en España)
Other useful documents:
- Glosario de Términos Utilizados en Genealogía (Glossary of Terms Used in Genealogy) by Manuel Martinez Nazario
(Source: Hidalguia, Año LXIV 2017, Num. 375, Pgs. 463-520 – downloaded from https://dialnet.unirioja.es/) - Handwriting and Paleography guides – See our Getting Started Page – Genealogy Forms
IMPORTANT: These files are for personal use only! The use of the information on this site for commercial, political, or any other purpose other than research of your family history and genealogy is strictly forbidden.
Please contact, and credit, the CGC prior to using any part of this collection by sending an email to secretary@cubangenclub.org.
Diocesan Archive of Girona
(Arxiu Diocesà de Girona)
Pujada de Sant Martí, 12
(Diocesan Seminary Building, third floor)
Girona 17004
Email – info@arxiuadg.org
Home Page – https://www.arxiuadg.org/
The Diocesan Archive preserves the documentary memory of the diocese of Girona from the ninth century to the present day. It is at the service of the bodies and institutions of the diocese to help its administrative management and at the service of researchers as a collaboration of the Church in the culture of our society.
Parish Archives (Arxius parroquials)
These archives contatin documentation of the parish archives, the sacramental books (baptisms, confirmations, marriages and deaths), established since the beginning of the 16th century, as well as the books of wills. They are of great interest for genealogical research. They can now be consulted online.
Many of the parish archives deposited in the Diocesan Archive contain documentation of other activities or realities of the parish. This documentation has been inventoried and is available for consultation by researchers who want to study a parish.
Marriage Waivers (Dispenses Matrimonials)
Exemptions of a marital nature refer to decisions not to apply an ecclesiastical law to the marriage of specific people who request it. In the Diocesan Archive there are two series of such dispensations, those of impediment and those of proclamations, which may be of interest for genealogical research because they contain family trees.
Archivo Histórico Diocesano de Madrid
Digital repository of the Diocesan Historical Archive of Madrid
Archive Portal (Portal Archivo)
Marriage records index books
Marriage record books
Ecclesiastical bulletins of Madrid-Alcalá
Plans of the Almudena Cathedral
Bulls
Diocesan Archive of Toledo
Diocesan Archive of Alcalá de Henares
Diocesan Archive of Getafe
Archive of the Military Archbishopric of Spain
Archivo Diocesano de Logroño (La Rioja)
A part of the Calahorra and La Calzada-Logroño Diocesis, it is located at Avenida de la Paz, 114, 26004 Logroño, La Rioja Spain.
The site has a guide listing all the parishes.
Requests for electronic searches can be made using the form on their website – the cost (as of June 2024) is 10 Euro for the search.
Barcelona Diocesan Archive (Arxiu Diocesà de Barcelona)
The Arxiu Diocesà de Barcelona is an archive of archives, consisting of records of the Diocese of Barcelona in addition to several other local and regional archives that were incorporated into the Diocesan archives during the 19th and 20th century. The archive includes records from several religious institutions, notably Sant Jeroni de la Vall d’Hebron, Sant Cugat del Vallès, and Sant Miquel del Fai, parish archives, the archives of the Crusade of Charles V, and the archives of the consulate of Sicily and Naples.
Home Page – https://hmml.org/collections/repositories/spain/arxiu-dioces%C3%A0-de-barcelona/
Reading Room Home Page – https://www.vhmml.org/readingRoom
Collection News – https://hmml.org/collections/news/metadata-for-1441-archival-objects-of-the-arxiu-diocesa-de-barcelona-catalunya-spain-added-to-vhmml/
Archdiocesan Historial Archive of Tarragona
(L'Arxiu Històric Arxidiocesà de Tarragona)
Home Page – https://www.arxiuadg.org/
Welcome Page – https://arxiuenlinia.ahat.cat/
Documentary Collections – Parishes – https://arxiuenlinia.ahat.cat/FonsDocumentals
(Drill down to the record set within a parish)
Historical Archive of the Basque Country
Euskadiko Artxibo Historikoa
Dokuklik is the web portal for consulting the documentation of an important part of the Basque historical archives, both public and private. It is also the portal for the digital copies of a significant part of these documents. It includes two search engines: Badator and Sacramental Records.
Badator
Historical documentation of numerous archives of the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country: Historical Archive of Euskadi, municipal, family and public and private entity archives. It also incorporates some archive funds located outside its borders of interest to the Country. It contains 700,000 references of documentation dated between the 13th century and 1980. Part of the documentation is digitized (4.8 million digital images).
Sacramental Records
The sacramental records database allows the consultation of the historical census (1500-1900) and of the inhabitants of the three territories of the Autonomous Community, which is included in the sacramental books of the Catholic Church. It contains 5.6 million records relating to baptized, married and deceased.
Diocesan Historical Archive of San Sebastian (Basque Country)
Donostiako Elizbarrutiko Artxibo Historikoa (Euskal Herria)
Although the birth of the Diocese dates from 1950, this archive did not officially begin until 1972, when the then Bishop of the Diocese, Mr. Jacinto Argaya, appointed Sebastián Insausti as the first Diocesan Archivist with the precise objective to collect those documents that have to reveal to us how those who in previous times exercised pastoral care within our province solved their pastoral problems.
At present, the archive has the main tasks of preserving and disseminating the historical documentary collections – those older than 75 years – of the Diocese of San Sebastián, that is, of all of Gipuzkoa. It is a set of old and very valuable documents – the oldest of those dating from 1353 – that constitute an irreplaceable portion of the memory of the historical territory of Gipuzkoa and allow us to recall the evolution of its society, its people, its faith and their customs.
Parish Archives
History of the parishes in Gipuzkoa
Asturias
Map courtesy of Archidiocesis de Oviedo
The Archdiocese of Oviedo extends its jurisdiction over the territory of the Principality of Asturias, which has an area of 4, 095 square miles and a population of 1,006,028 inhabitants. Together with the dioceses of Astorga, León, and Santander, it forms the Archdiocese or Ecclesiastical Province of Oviedo.
It geographically borders the dioceses of Astorga, León, Lugo, Mondoñedo-Ferrol, and Santander.
Currently, it has 932 parishes and 311 diocesan priests.
Burgos
Burgos is a city in Spain located in the autonomous community of Castile and León.
It is the capital and most populated municipality of the province of Burgos.
Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de Compostela, simply Santiago, or Compostela, is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia, in northwestern Spain. The city has its origin in the shrine of Saint James the Great, now the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, as the destination of the Way of St. James, a leading Catholic pilgrimage route since the 9th century. In 1985, the city’s Old Town was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Vizcaya
Biscay (Basque: Bizkaia; Spanish: Vizcaya) is a province of Spain and a historical territory of the Basque Country,
heir of the ancient Lordship of Biscay, lying on the south shore of the eponymous bay. The capital and largest city is Bilbao.