GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
Colorado: CO-18

St. Bernadette Church. Kateri Community of Colorado 
7240 West Twelfth Avenue
Lakewood, CO 80214

Phone: 303-233-1523
Email: stbernparish@gmail.com

 

History: St. Bernadette Church, Lakewood, Jefferson County, Colorado, has been a predominantly non-Native American parish in the Archdiocese of Denver (Archives: Denver, Colorado). It had some Native American parishioners (e.g. Apache, Dakota-Lakota, Navajo, Ojibwa, Ute) who founded the Kateri Catholic Indian Community of Colorado, which then became a ministry of St. Bernadette’s.

After 1960	Denver area Native Americans established the Kateri Catholic Indian Community of Colorado
1968-1999	Rev. John Q O’Connell, C.M. [Vincentians] (-1999), (Archives: Chicago, Illinois), an associate pastor of St. Bernadette’s, served the St. Kateri Community
1980s-present	The St. Kateri Community became a ministry of St. Bernadette Church
1999-2010s	Denver archdiocesan priests at St. Bernadette’s have attended the Kateri Community
2010s-present	Jesuits (Archives: St. Louis, Missouri) at St. Bernadette’s have attended to the St. Kateri Community

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Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:

Inclusive dates: ca. 1960-ongoing

Volume: Several entries within several volumes 

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