Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish (Taos, New Mexico)

Having received permission from Durango, Mexico's Bishop Olivares built the Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe church in Taos as a Franciscan mission of San Geronimo Parish at the Taos Pueblo beginning on November 18, 1801.

[1] Padre Antonio José Martínez served the parish church beginning in August 1826.

A new church was built on the same site by John Baptist Pitaval, Archbishop of Santa Fe.

[1] Hung within each of the three churches has been a painting by Jose Santiago made in 1674 of Our Lady of Guadalupe that had been given to Padre Martinez as a gift.

[1] It is a parish church of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe and has missions at St. Jerome Church at Taos Pueblo, St. Theresa Chapel in El Prado, Immaculate Conception in Ranchitos, Our Lady of Sorrows in Cañon, New Mexico and San Antonio at La Loma Taos Indian Pueblo.