GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
Alaska: AK-26

Holy Name Church and School
433 Jackson Street
Ketchikan, AK 99901

Phone: 907-225-2570
Email: churchoffice@holynamektn.org

 

Hours: See website

 

History: Holy Name Church, Ketchikan, Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska, has been a mixed Native (e.g. Tlingit, Haida) and non-Native American parish in the Archdiocese of Anchorage-Juneau (Archives: Juneau, Alaska).

1902-1907	Jesuits (California Province) (Archives: St. Louis, Missouri) visited Ketchikan (Tlingit, Haida)
1907-1930	Jesuits (California, Oregon Provinces) (Archives: St. Louis, Missouri) established and administered Holy Name Church and School (Tlingit, Haida)
1930-1964	Jesuits administered Holy Name
1964-1968	Vincentians (Western Province, Perryville, Missouri) administered Holy Name
1960s-1988	Juneau diocesan priests administered Holy Name
1988-1995	Oblates of Mary Immaculate (Pacific, United States Provinces) (Archives: Washington, D.C.) administered Holy Name
1995-2020	Juneau diocesan priests administered Holy Name
2020-present	Anchorage-Juneau archdiocesan priests have administered Holy Name

Various priests at Holy Name attended to:

1909-1930 (became a parish)

St. Rose of Lima Mission (Tlingit), Wrangell/ Fort Wrangel

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans: 

Inclusive dates: 1902-ongoing

Volume: Several entries among several volumes 

Description: Sacramental records (e.g. baptisms, marriages, burials) for the Native American parishioners of Holy Name Church and its attended Native missions. Student records from the parish grade school follow students to middle school in the Ketchikan School District.

 

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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