GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 2: Midwest United States
Oklahoma: OK-9
St. Cecilia Church
1304 North Dorothy Street
Claremore, OK 74017
Phone: 918-341-2343
Email: stcecilia@tulsacoxmail.com
History: St. Cecilia Church, Claremore, Rogers County, Oklahoma, has been a predominantly non-Native American parish with a few Cherokee Indian parishioners in the Cherokee and Muskogee (Creek) Nations and in the Diocese of Tulsa (Archives: Broken Arrow, Oklahoma).
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1892-1899 |
Oklahoma City diocesan priests at Assumption Church, Muskogee, attended to Claremore station (Cherokee) |
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1899-1909 |
Oklahoma City diocesan priests at Holy Family, Tulsa, attended to Claremore station |
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1909-1912 |
Oklahoma City diocesan priests at Sacred Heart, Sapulpa, attended to Claremore station |
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1912-1914 |
Oklahoma City diocesan priests at St. Catherine’s, Nowata, attended to Claremore station |
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1914-1917 |
Oklahoma City diocesan priests at Holy Cross, Wagoner, attended to Claymore station |
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1917-1920 |
Oklahoma City diocesan priests at Holy Family, Tulsa, established and attended to Sacred Heart Mission (Cherokee) |
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1920-1925 |
Oklahoma City diocesan priests at St. Patrick’s, Sand Springs, attended to Sacred Heart |
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1925-1931 (closed) |
Society of the Precious Blood (Cincinnati Province) (Archives: Cincinnati, Ohio) at St. Catherine’s, Nowata, attended to Sacred Heart |
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1931-1939 |
Society of the Precious Blood at St. Catherine’s, Nowata, attended to Claremore station (Cherokee) |
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1939-1940 |
Oklahoma City diocesan priests attended Claremore station |
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1940-1948 |
Oklahoma City diocesan priests at Sacred Heart, Skiatook, established and attended to Christ the King Mission (Cherokee), Claremore |
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1948-1972 |
Became a parish; Oklahoma City diocesan priests administered St. Cecilia/ Christ the King Church, Claremore |
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1972-present |
Tulsa diocesan priests have administered St. Cecilia’s |
Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:
Inclusive dates: 1940-ongoing
Volume: Several entries within several volumes
Description: Sacramental records (e.g. baptisms, marriages, burials) for Native American parishioners of St. Cecilia 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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