GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
Washington: WA-30

St. Leo the Great Church
710 South Thirteenth Street
Tacoma, WA 98405

Phone: 253-272-5136
Email: admin@stleoparish.org

 

History: St. Leo the Great Church, Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, has been a predominantly non-Native American parish in the Archdiocese of Seattle (Archives: Seattle, Washington).

1879-1911	Rev. J.B.A. Brondel and Rev. Peter F. Hylebos, two Seattle/ Nisqually diocesan priests, administered St. Leo’s
1911-present	Jesuits (California, Oregon Provinces) (Archives: St. Louis, Missouri) have administered St. Leo the Great, Tacoma

Rev. Hylebos and Jesuits at St. Leo’s attended to the following Native American missions and school:

1884-1888 (transferred to St. George’s, Blanchet)	St. Anne Church (Tulalip), Tulalip Reservation
1884-1888 (transferred to St. George’s, Blanchet)	St. John the Baptist Mission (Puyallup), Puyallup Reservation
1913-1919 (closed)	Cushman Government Indian Trade School (e.g. Lummi, Nisqually, Puyallup), Tacoma

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:

Inclusive dates: 1879-1919

Volume: Ca. .1 cubic foot 

Description: The records at St. Leo Church were not arranged according to a classification scheme when reviewed by a Marquette University archivist, 2006. Consequently, the description is by record type.

 

/1 Sacramental records

Inclusive dates: 1879-1888

Volume: Few entries among several volumes

Description: Records (e.g. baptisms, marriages, burials) for Native American parishioners of St. John the Baptist Mission and students at the Cushman Government Indian School    

 

/2 Annual reports (copies) by Rev. Peter F. Hylebos, 1879-1919; re: evangelization among the Lummi, Nisqually, and Puyallup Indians; some in French; from the Catholic University of Louvain (Louvain, Belgium). 

 

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.

new2006/rev2020