Anthony DeGregorio Italian Pentecostal Collection
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Title: Anthony DeGregorio Italian Pentecostal Collection
Dates: 1905-1987
Collection Number: CFT00034
Creator/Collector:
DeGregorio, Anthony (1905-1987)
Extent: 14 Boxes, 7.0 linear feet
Repository:
Fuller Theological Seminary-David Allan Hubbard Library Archives
Pasadena, California 91182
Abstract: The collection contains some biographical details on Anthony DeGregorio but primarily consists of his extensive correspondence
with Italian Pentecostal pioneers and the material he collected and used in the writing of ‘The Italian Christian Movement’.
Included in his collection are draft histories of about 50 local Pentecostal congregations.
Language of Material: Italian
Supervised use only. Scholarly use within parameters of copyright law.
Anthony DeGregorio Italian Pentecostal Collection. Fuller Theological Seminary-David Allan Hubbard Library Archives
Donated by Mrs. Anthony DeGregorio, October, 1985
Biography/Administrative History
Anthony DeGregorio (1905-1987) was born in Abruzzi, Italy in 1905. His parents immigrated to the United States in 1912 when
he was six years old. He was also a collector of rare books and had the desire to write the history of the pioneers of the
Italian Pentecostal movement in the United States. He started corresponding with the fathers of this movement from 1936 and
collected their biographical and ministerial details. He gave this collection of biographies the title ‘History of the Italian
Movement.’
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains some biographical details on Anthony DeGregorio but primarily consists of his extensive correspondence
with Italian Pentecostal pioneers and the material he collected and used in the writing of ‘The Italian Christian Movement’.
Included in his collection are draft histories of about 50 local Pentecostal congregations. The approximately 115 unpublished
biographies and autobiographies (many written in Italian) of significant figures in Italian-American Pentecostalism offer
rare glimpses into a people strongly opposed to "organized denominationalism." The documents shed light on the Italian-American
experience and are useful for research on Italian and Brazilian-Italian Pentecostalism.
Pentecostalism
Immigrants -- Religious life -- United States
Church history
Biographies
Transcripts