Material is non-circulating.
Photocopies by permission. The Archives contain materials about the Roman Catholic Church in Western New York. The major portion of materials date from the establishment of the Rochester Diocese in 1868. Catholics in Western New York became members of the Diocese of Baltimore in 1789, of the Diocese of New York in 1808, and of the Diocese of Buffalo in 1847. Catholicism in Western New York dates from c. 1615 and the visit of Stephen Brule, an emissary of Samuel de Champlain.