GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
Alaska: AK-56

St. Patrick Church
P.O. Box 389
Utqiabvik, AK 99723

Phone: 907-852-3515

 

History: St. Patrick Church, Utqiabvik (formerly Barrow), North Slope Borough, Alaska, has been a predominantly Native American (Inupiat) parish in the Diocese of Fairbanks (Archives: Fairbanks, Alaska). St. Patrick’s is the world’s northernmost Catholic parish, located on the Chukchi Sea coast above the Arctic Circle.

1898

Jesuits (Turin Province) (Archives: St. Louis, Missouri) visited Utqiabvik (Inupiat)

1954-1959

Jesuits (Oregon Province) (Archives: St. Louis, Missouri) established and administered St. Patrick Church, Utqiabvik/ Barrow (Inupiat)

1959-1966

Dominicans (Western Province) (Archives: Oakland, California) and Jesuits attended St. Patrick’s from Beaufort and Chukchi Sea worksites of the DEW Line and U.S. Naval Arctic Research Laboratory

1966-1971

Fairbanks diocesan priests administered St. Patrick’s

1973-1974

Jesuits attended St. Patrick’s from the U.S. Naval Arctic Research Laboratory

1974-2000

Jesuits at Immaculate Conception, Fairbanks, attended St. Patrick’s

2000-2004

Jesuits administered St. Patrick’s

2004-2006

Marian Fathers (St. Stanislaus Kostka Province) (Archives: Stockbridge, Massachusetts) at St. Mark’s, Fairbanks, attended St. Patrick’s

2006-present

Visiting Fairbanks diocesan priests and diocesan ministry team members have ministered to St. Peter’s

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:

Inclusive dates: 1954-ongoing

Volume: Few volumes 

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