GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
Alaska: AK-47

Sacred Heart Church
409 Fifth Avenue
P.O. Box 207
Seward, AK 99664

Phone: 907-224-5414
Email: See website (About: Contact Us)

 

History: Sacred Heart Church, Seward, Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, has been a predominantly non-Native American parish with a few Native American (e.g. Aleut, Denaina, Eskimo) parishioners on Resurrection Bay of the Gulf of Alaska and in the Archdiocese of Anchorage-Juneau (Archives: Juneau, Alaska).

1905-1910	Jesuits (Canada, California, Oregon Provinces) (Archives: St. Louis, Missouri; Montreal, Quebec) at St. Mark’s, Skagway, visited Seward
1910-1920	Jesuits from St. Mark’s, Skagway, established and attended Sacred Heart Mission
1920-1940	Alaska prefecture apostolate priests (Fairbanks) from Holy Family, Anchorage, attended Sacred Heart
1940-1951	Became a parish; Alaska prefecture apostolate priests (Fairbanks) administered Sacred Heart Church
1951-2020	Juneau diocesan priests administered Sacred Heart
2020-present	Anchorage-Juneau archdiocesan priests have administered Sacred Heart

 

Holdings of Catholic-related records about Native Americans:

Inclusive dates: 1905-ongoing

Volume: Few entries among several volumes  

Description: Sacramental records (e.g. baptisms, marriages, burials) for Native American parishioners of Sacred Heart 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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