Summary Information

Title: St. Gregory's Church (St. Nazianz, Wis.) Records
Inclusive Dates: 1854-1911, 1954

Creator:

• St. Gregory's Church (St. Nazianz, Wis.)

Call Number: Green Bay Micro 5; Green Bay Micro 22; Green Bay SC 109; Micro 488; Micro 731

Quantity: 2 reels of microfilm (35mm) and 0.1 c.f. (1 folder)

Repository:

Housed at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Archives and Area Research Center; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-Green Bay Cofrin Library / Green Bay Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:

Records of a church and its founders, an association of Roman Catholic emigrants from Freiburg, Germany, led by Father Ambrose Oschwald, who sought a religious environment and practiced a communal economic system. Available in paper form is a copy of the articles of agreement governing the colony and a newsclipping on finding the articles in Manitowoc County, Wis., Circuit Court files. On microfilm is a published history, a chronicle book, financial records, a pastor's diary (1884-1890), and records of land transactions and other activities. Much of the collection is in German. The collection documents the establishment of the village of St. Nazianz in 1854, building of the church in 1866, dissension within the church over communal property ownership and transfer of property to a corporate entity known as the Roman Catholic Religious Society of St. Nazianz, and an 1896 agreement with the Society of the Divine Savior in Rome to provide spiritual and temporal care for members in exchange for property rights.

Language: German, English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-micr0488

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