GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 2: Midwest United States
Oklahoma: OK-38

St. Benedict Church
632 North Kickapoo Avenue
Shawnee, OK 74801

Phone: 405-275-0001
Email: stbenedict.office@sbcglobal.net

 

History: St. Benedict Church, Shawnee, Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, has been a predominantly non-Native American parish in the Arch/Diocese of Oklahoma City (Archives: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma).

1895-1920s	Benedictines (Archives: Shawnee, Oklahoma) established and administered St. Benedict Church (e.g. Shawnee, Potawatomi, Sac and Fox, Kickapoo), Shawnee
1920s-present	Oklahoma City arch/diocesan priests have administered St. Benedict’s

Benedictines at St. Benedict's attended to the following Native American missions and stations in Oklahoma:

1896-1898 (transferred to Our Lady of Sorrows, Chandler)	Sac and Fox Reservation station (Sac and Fox), Lincoln, Payne, and Pottawatomie County
1898-1925 (closed)	Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Mission (Shawnee), Tecumseh, Pottawatomie County
1911-1925 (closed)	Wewoka station (Seminole), Seminole County

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:

Inclusive dates: 1895-ongoing

Volume: At least 1 cubic foot

Description: Sacramental records (e.g. baptisms, marriages, burials) for Native American parishioners of St. Benedict Church and its attended stations and mission; baptisms, 1895-ongoing, marriages, 1896-ongoing, deaths, 1898-ongoing, first communions, 1903-ongoing, and confirmations, 1905-ongoing.  

 

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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