GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
Oregon: OR-19

Sacred Heart Church
927 North Coast Highway
Newport, OR 93765

Phone: 541-265-5101
Email: office@sacredheartnewport.com

 

History: Sacred Heart Church, Newport, Lincoln County, Oregon, has been a predominantly non-Native American parish in the Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon (Archives: Portland, Oregon). Portland in Oregon archdiocesan priests at Sacred Heart have attended to the following Native American missions in Lincoln County, Oregon.

1914-present	Our Lady of Guadeloupe/ St. Mary Mission (Chinook, Klamath, Siletz), Siletz, Siletz Reservation
1932-1940s (transferred to St. Michael’s, Grand Ronde)	St. Augustine Mission/ Oceanlake station (Siltez), Oceanlake

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans: 

Inclusive dates: Ca. 1914-ongoing

Volume: At least 2 cubic feet 

 Description: Sacramental records (e.g. baptisms, marriages, burials) for Native American parishioners of Our Lady of Guadaloupe/ St. Mary and St. Augustine Missions.   

 

 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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