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===Church Archives (Catholic Church)===
===Church Archives (Catholic Church)===
*[https://www.escolapia.cat/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/guia_archivos.pdf ''Guía de los Archivos de la Iglesia en España'']
*[https://www.escolapia.cat/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/guia_archivos.pdf ''Guía de los Archivos de la Iglesia en España'']
This guide to the Catholic Church Archives in Spain is available online: [https://www.escolapia.cat/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/guia_archivos.pdf ''Guía de los Archivos de la Iglesia en España''] compiled by the Archivo Diocesano de Barcelona for the Asociación de Archiveros de la Iglesia en España (Association of Archivists of the Church in Spain) with the collaboration of the Ministerio de Educación, Cultura, y Deporte (Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sports).
This guide to the Catholic Church Archives in Spain is available online: [https://www.escolapia.cat/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/guia_archivos.pdf ''Guía de los Archivos de la Iglesia en España'']. This "Guide to the Archives of the Church in Spain", contains the detailed description of the one hundred and seventy major ecclesiastical archives of Spain (cathedral, diocesan, monastic and conventual), and beginning dates of records of baptism, confirmation, marriages, deaths for 23,000 parish archives belonging to the sixty-seven dioceses of the Church in Spain.
 
====Parish Archives====
====Parish Archives====
 
Parish archives maintain the parish books for their own parish. Most of the surviving parish records in Spain have been centralized to the Diocesan Archive. however, records that are not more than 100 years old and those that were never sent to the Diocesan archive are kept/stored in the parish archive. The parish records most common and most relevant to family history: '''baptisms, confirmations, marriages, and deaths/burials'''.  
Parish archives maintain the parish books for their own parish. Most of the surviving parish records in Spain have been centralized to the Diocesan Archive (see below), however, records that are not more than 100 years old and those that were never sent to the Diocesan archive are kept/stored in the Parish archive. The parish records most common and most relevant to family history: baptisms, confirmations, marriages, and deaths/burials.  
 
====Diocesan Archives====
====Diocesan Archives====
Each diocese has an archive where they have centralized the parish records within its boundaries. The archives usually have '''all the parish records that are older than 100 years old''', plus any diocesan records. Diocesan records in Spain include: '''marriage dispensations, ecclesiastic personnel records, judicial materials, pastoral visits and confirmations'''.


Each diocese has an archive where they have centralized the parish records within its boundaries. The archives usually have all the parish records that are older than 100 years old, plus any diocesan records. Diocesan records in Spain include: marriage dispensations, ecclesiastic personnel records, judicial materials, pastoral visits and confirmations.


Catholic Church guides and directories are great sources for learning more about church archives. Much of this can be done through the Ministerio de Cultura's website, but there are two other websites that are great as well.


*[http://www.conferenciaepiscopal.es/diocesis-espanolas/ Conferencia Episcopal Española]
*[http://www.conferenciaepiscopal.es/diocesis-espanolas/ Conferencia Episcopal Española]
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