GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
Arizona: AZ-2
St. Peter Mission School
1500 North St. Peter Road
Bapchule, AZ 85121
Phone: 520-315-3835
Email: See website (Contact)
Hours: See website (Contact)
History of St. Peter Mission School, Bapchule, Pinal County, Arizona, has been a predominantly Native American (Pima) mission and school on the Gila River Reservation and in the Diocese of Phoenix (Archives: Phoenix, Arizona).
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1873-1890s |
Tucson diocesan priests at Assumption Church, Florence, visited the Gila River Reservation (Pima) |
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1900-1915 |
Franciscans (St. John the Baptist Province) (Archives: Cincinnati, Ohio; archives bulk: St. Michaels, Arizona, and Tucson, Arizona) established and administered St. Peter Mission (Pima), Sacaton/ Bapchule |
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1915-1992 |
Franciscans (Santa Barbara Province) (Archives: Santa Barbara, California) administered St. Peter Mission |
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1923-1933 |
Lay teachers (Pima) established and staffed St. Peter Mission School (Pima) |
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1933-1935 (transferred to Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity) |
Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange (Archives: Orange, California) staffed St. Peter’s |
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1935-present |
Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity (Archives: Manitowoc, Wisconsin) have staffed the school |
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Ca. 1992-2015 |
Permanent deacons (Pima) administered St. Peter Mission |
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2015-present |
Franciscan Friars of the Holy Spirit (Archives: Laveen, Arizona) have administered St. Peter’s Mission |
Various priests and deacons at St. Peter’s attended the following Native American missions in the Phoenix Diocese:
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1938-1998 (transferred to St. John’s, Laveen) |
St. Francis Mission (Maricopa), Ak-chin, Ak-chin Reservation |
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1949-2015 (transferred to Franciscan Friars of the Holy Spirit) |
Holy Family Mission (Pima), Blackwater, Gila River Reservation |
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1949-2015 (transferred to Franciscan Friars of the Holy Spirit) |
Our Lady of Victory Mission (Pima), Sacaton Flats, Gila River Reservation |
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1949-2015 (transferred to Franciscan Friars of the Holy Spirit) |
St. Anne Mission (Pima), Santan, Gila River Reservation |
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1949-2015 (transferred to Franciscan Friars of the Holy Spirit) |
St. Anthony Mission (Pima), Sacaton, Gila River Reservation |
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1949-2015 (transferred to Franciscan Friars of the Holy Spirit) |
St. Michael Mission (Maricopa, Pima), Sacaton Flats, Gila River Reservation |
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1949-2015 (transferred to Franciscan Friars of the Holy Spirit) |
St. Paschal Mission (Maricopa and Pima), Blackwater, Gila River Reservation |
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1949-2015 (transferred to Franciscan Friars of the Holy Spirit) |
St. Peter Mission (Pima), Casa Blanca, Gila River Reservation |
Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:
Inclusive dates: 1920s-ongoing
Volume: At least 6 cubic feet
Description: The records at St. Peter School were not arranged according to a classification scheme when reviewed by a Marquette University archivist, 2006. Consequently, the description is by record type.
/1 Student Records
Inclusive dates: 1920s-ongoing
Volume: At least 4 cubic feet
Description: School attendance records, class lists, and cumulative files with sacramental records (e.g. first communions) and transcripts.
/2 Photography
Inclusive dates: 1920s-ongoing
Volume: At least 2 cubic feet
Description: School activities with students and Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity.
For student attendance records -- see -- Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions Records, Marquette University Special Collections and Archives, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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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