The San Felipe de Neri Church has a very long history and has existed in two locations, but mostly in the same general area of the modern-day Old Albuquerque Plaza. The church started as a Spanish colonial mission in 1706 and is believed to have been built slightly west of the modern church's location. Its exact location is unknown. The original Mission de San Felipe de Neri fell into ruin and collapsed in the winter months of 1792-93. The church was rebuilt at its present-day location in Old Town in 1793. 

The Campo Santo (church graveyard) and Cementerio (cemetery) of San Felipe de Neri Catholic church have been identified to have been in different locations based on the time period of the burial. 

The Campo Santo's earliest identified burial took place on the 22nd of December 1726 (LDS FHL). The location has been lost to time and is evidently unmarked. The burial record of the parish indicates it was in the "Santa Iglesia" (Holy Church) which was either within the graveyard or within the perimeter of the church itself. The above-mentioned burial took place at the original location of the mission. 

A survey of various cemeteries of Bernalillo County and surrounding areas that was conducted by Carol J. Condie of the Quivira Research Associates in 1999 for the City of Albuquerque and she identified the time periods and general locations of where these burials took place. According to Condie (1999), burials that took place around 1706 are within the original church yard and also cited to be under Romero Street which is immediately west of the present-day church and runs north and south. These burials are documented in the parish' burial archives in many volumes of records. 

Condie (1999), indicates that burials from 1793 to 1854 are located either in graveyard (Campo Santo) surrounding the church or under the floorboards of the modern-day church. Burials from 1854 to 1869 took place at the Cementerio de San Felipe de Neri (cemetery) which was relocated about a half mile northeast of the church. Burials in the newer (now non-existent) Cementerio ended approximately in 1869 with the consecration of a new location which is Santa Barbara Cemetery (ID# 38252).

In either case, the remains that were originally buried in the Campo Santo or Cementerio were all supposedly exhumed in 1892 when the Jesuit priests of San Felipe sold the land to John Mann to build acequias (ditches) for his a garden (Condie, 1999). It was reported that two tons of bones were moved to Santa Barbara. According to the Albuquerque Journal (Capilupi, 1892), The land was sold for $150 to both John Mann and his brother and protests erupted regarding the sale of the land. John Mann himself indicated that it was better that the remains be moved to a more hollowed place than to be trampled on by cows and where other indecencies took place.