GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
Alaska: AK-23

Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Co-Cathedral
416 Fifth Street
Juneau, AK 99801

Phone: 907-586-1513
Email: See website (About Us: Contact Us)

 

History: The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Co-Cathedral has been a predominately non-native American parish with some Tlingit Indian parishioners in the Archdiocese of Anchorage-Juneau (Archives: Juneau, Alaska).

1882-1885	Vancouver diocesan priests (Archives: Vancouver, British Columbia) visited Juneau (Tlingit)
1866	Vancouver diocesan priests established Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church (Tlingit)
1886-1951	Jesuits (Turin, Canada, California, Oregon Provinces) (Archives: St. Louis, Missouri; Montreal, Quebec) administered Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
1951-2020	Juneau diocesan priests administered Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Cathedral
2020-present	Anchorage-Juneau archdiocesan priests have administered Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Co-Cathedral

Jesuits from Nativity attended the following partially Tlingit Indian mission and station with some Tlingit Indian parishioners: 

1890-1898, 1920-1930 (became a parish)	Sitka station
1896-1898 (transferred to Our Lady, Douglas	St. Rose of Lima Mission, Wrangell/ Fort Wrangel

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans: 

Inclusive dates: 1886-ongoing   

Volume: Few entries among several volumes 

Description: Sacramental records (e.g. baptisms, marriages, burials), for Native American parishioners of Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church and its attended Native mission and station.  

 

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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