GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
Alaska: AK-48

St. Gregory of Nazianzen Church
606 Etolin Street
P.O. Box 495
Sitka, AK 99835

Phone: 907-747-8371

 

History: See also parish website. St. Gregory of Nazianzen Church has been a mixed Native (Tlingit) and non-Native American parish in the Alaska panhandle and in the Archdiocese of Anchorage-Juneau (Archives: Juneau, Alaska).

1873, 1879

Arch/bishop Charles J. Seghers (Archives: Victoria, British Columbia) visited Sitka (Tlingit)

1885-1889

Victoria arch/diocesan priests from St. Andrew Cathedral (Archives: Victoria, British Columbia) attended to Sitka station (Tlingit)

1889-1890

Jesuits (Turin, Canada, California Provinces) (Archives: St. Louis, Missouri, and Montreal, Quebec) at St. Rose, Wrangell, attended to Sitka 

1890-1898

Jesuits at Nativity, Juneau, attended to Sitka station

1898-1902

Jesuits at Our Lady, Douglas, attended to Sitka station

1902-1920

Jesuits at St. Mark’s, Skagway, attended to Sitka station

1920- 1940

Jesuits at Nativity, Juneau, attended to Sitka station

1940-1945

Jesuits established and administered St. Gregory of Nazianzen Church

1945-1951

Alaska vicariate apostolate priests (Fairbanks) administered St. Gregory of Nazianzen Church

1951-2020

Juneau diocesan priests administered St. Gregory’s

2020-present

Anchorage-Juneau archdiocesan priests have administered St. Gregory’s

Juneau diocesan priests at St. Gregory’s attended to Sacred Heart Mission (Tlingit), Hoonah, 1960-1976 (transferred to Nativity, Juneau).

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans: 

Inclusive dates: 1879-ongoing    

Volume: Several entries among several volumes 

Description: Sacramental records (e.g. baptisms, marriages, burials) for Native American parishioners of St. Gregory of Nazianzen Church and Sacred Heart Mission

 

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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