GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
Alaska: AK-56
St. Patrick Church
P.O. Box 389
Utqiabvik, AK 99723
Phone: 907-852-3515
History: St. Patrick Church, Utqiabvik (formerly Barrow), North Slope Borough, Alaska, has been a predominantly Native American (Inupiat) parish in the Diocese of Fairbanks (Archives: Fairbanks, Alaska). St. Patrick’s is the world’s northernmost Catholic parish, located on the Chukchi Sea coast above the Arctic Circle.
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1898 |
Jesuits (Turin Province) (Archives: St. Louis, Missouri) visited Utqiabvik (Inupiat) |
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1954-1959 |
Jesuits (Oregon Province) (Archives: St. Louis, Missouri) established and administered St. Patrick Church, Utqiabvik/ Barrow (Inupiat) |
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1959-1966 |
Dominicans (Western Province) (Archives: Oakland, California) and Jesuits attended St. Patrick’s from Beaufort and Chukchi Sea worksites of the DEW Line and U.S. Naval Arctic Research Laboratory |
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1966-1971 |
Fairbanks diocesan priests administered St. Patrick’s |
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1973-1974 |
Jesuits attended St. Patrick’s from the U.S. Naval Arctic Research Laboratory |
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1974-2000 |
Jesuits at Immaculate Conception, Fairbanks, attended St. Patrick’s |
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2000-2004 |
Jesuits administered St. Patrick’s |
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2004-2006 |
Marian Fathers (St. Stanislaus Kostka Province) (Archives: Stockbridge, Massachusetts) at St. Mark’s, Fairbanks, attended St. Patrick’s |
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2006-present |
Visiting Fairbanks diocesan priests and diocesan ministry team members have ministered to St. Peter’s |
Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:
Inclusive dates: 1954-ongoing
Volume: Few volumes
Description: Sacramental records (e.g. baptisms, marriages, burials) for Native American parishioners of St. Patrick 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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