The Archivo Histórico del Arzobispado de México contains documentation generated by the activities in the central Mexican bishopric and subsequent archbishopric gave form to the archive. Today the colonial section of the archive houses 9550 documents and 319 books related to the administration of the archdiocese
The bundles, boxes, and stacks of paper and books of the colonial records of the Archivo Histórico del Arzobispado de México include three major record sets: Fondo Episcopal, Fondo Cabildo, and Fondo Juzgado Eclesiástico de Toluca. This electronic archive is the result of the digitalization of the colonial documentation, excluding extremely fragile documents, photocopies of documents located in other repositories, the oversized documents conserved in map cases, and several boxes of documents discovered among other record sets. The original 199,667 JPG image files were converted into PDF files, concatenated to conform to the paper files and books, and provided an electronic interface. The first of the three record sets, Fondo Episcopal, consists of papers generated by the dependencies of the archbishop's governing council; those dependencies were the secretariat and three tribunals. The records in Fondo Cabildo represent the work of the ecclesiastical council in Mexico City, the body charged with the administration of the cathedral and the collection of tithes. The third record set, Juzgado Eclesiástico de Toluca, originates from the ecclesiastical court in Toluca.
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