Baudier, Roger, The Catholic Church in Louisiana. New Orleans: 1939; reprinted, 1972.
Conrad, Glenn, ed., Cross, Crozier and Crucible: A Volume Celebrating the Bicentennial of a Catholic Diocese in Louisiana. Lafayette: 1993.
Nolan, Charles E., A History of the Archdiocese of New Orleans. Strasbourg, France: 2000.
Sacramental Records of the Roman Catholic Church of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, 1718-1823 (New Orleans: 1987-2000). Vols. 1-7 edited by Earl C. Woods and Charles Nolan; Vols. 8-15 by Charles Nolan and Dorenda Dupont.
The Baudier book is out of print. The other volumes are available from the archdiocesan archives; see the Archdiocesan Archives publication page elsewhere in this website.