This finding aid describes the two feet of original documents concerning the Archdiocese of Baltimore held by the Archives of the University of Notre Dame. Baltimore's ordinaries during the principal period covered by the collection figure prominently in the papers. Their names (and years in office): John Carroll, 1789-1815; Leonard Neale, 1815-1817; Ambrose Marechal, 1817-1828 James Whitfield, 1828-1834; Samuel Eccleston, 1834-1851; Francis Kenrick, 1851-1863; Martin Spalding, 1864-1872; James Bayley, 1872-1877; James Gibbons, 1877-1921.