GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 2: Midwest United States
Kansas: KS-9

Mater Dei Church
911 Southwest Clay Street
Topeka, KS 66606

Phone: 785-232-7744
Email: See website (Contact)

 

History: Mater Dei Church, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, has been a predominantly non-Native American parish with some Native American (Kickapoo, Potawatomi) parishioners in the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas (Archives: Kansas City, Kansas). The parish was formed by the merger of two former parishes, one of which was Assumption Church, North Topeka, Kansas.

1970s-2006	Kansas City in Kansas Archdiocesan priests administered Assumption Church (Kickapoo, Potawatomi, in part), North Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas
2006-present	Kansas City in Kansas Archdiocesan priests administered Mater Dei Church (Kickapoo, Potawatomi, in part), Topeka

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:

Inclusive dates: 2006-ongoing

Volume: Few records

Description: Sacramental records (e.g. baptisms, marriages, burials) for the Native American parishioners of Mater Dei Church.

 

Unless otherwise noted, the repository on this page holds (or held) the records described here and they are not held at the Marquette University Archives.

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