GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
Alaska: AK-50

St. Therese of the Child Jesus Church
Ninth Avenue and State Street
P.O. Box 496
Skagway, AK 99840

Phone 907-983-2271
Email: See website (Contact Us)

 

History: St. Therese Church, Skagway, Skagway Borough, Alaska, has been a predominantly non-Native American parish in the Archdiocese of Anchorage-Juneau (Archives: Juneau, Alaska).

1897

Jesuits (Turin Province) (Archives: St. Louis, Missouri) from Douglas, Alaska, visited Skagway

1898-1920

Jesuits (Turin, Canada, California Provinces) (Archives: St. Louis, Missouri, and Montreal, Quebec) established and administered St. Therese of the Child of Jesus/St. Mark Church

1920-1951

Alaska vicariate/prefecture apostolate priests (Fairbanks) administered St. Therese

1951-2020

Juneau diocesan priests administered St. Therese

2020-present

Anchorage-Juneau archdiocesan priests have administered St. Therese

Jesuits and diocesan priests at St. Therese attended to the following missions with Native American parishioners:

1902-1920 (transferred to Nativity B.V.M., Juneau)

Sitka station (Tlingit)

1904

Valdez station (Tlingit)

1908-1920 (transferred to Holy Family, Anchorage)

Sacred Heart Mission (e.g. Aleut, Denaina, Eskimo), Seward

 

1940s-1950 (closed)

St. Pius X Mission Home (e.g. Denaina, Eskimo, Tlingit), Skagway

1950s-1979 (became a parish) (no longer Native)

Sacred Heart Mission (Tlingit), Haines 

St. Pius X School, Skagway, and Skagway Government Sanatorium, Skagway:

1932-1959 (closed)

Jesuits with the Catholic Church Extension Society and the Sisters of St. Ann (St. Joseph’s Province, Victoria, British Columbia) established and staffed St. Pius X School/ Mission Home (e.g. Denaina, Eskimo, Tlingit), Skagway 

1940s-1950

Alaska [Fairbanks] vicariate/prefecture apostolate priests from St. Therese, Skagway, attended St. Pius X

1945-1947 (relocated to Sitka)

Sisters of St. Ann (St. Joseph’s Province, Victoria, British Columbia) staffed the Skagway Sanatorium (Aleut), Skagway 

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans: 

Inclusive dates: 1920-ongoing      

Volume: Several entries among several volumes 

Description: Sacramental records (e.g. baptisms, marriages, burials) for Native American parishioners of St. Therese Church and its attended Native missions and stations.

 

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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