GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 1: Eastern United States
Alabama: AL-1

St. Patrick Church
301 Shamrock Trail
Adamsville, AL 35005

Phone: 205-798-5326
Email: See website

 

History: St. Patrick Church, Adamsville, Jefferson County, Alabama, has been a predominantly non-Native American parish in the Diocese of Birmingham (Archives: Birmingham, Alabama).

1988-present

Birmingham diocesan priests established St. Patrick’s through the merger of four nearby rural parishes

1990s-present

Native American (e.g. Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Shawnee) and non-Native American parishioners founded the Ninety-first Kateri Circle as an intertribal group for prayer and Native American evangelization and as a local chapter of the national Tekakwitha Conference

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:

Inclusive dates: 1980s-ongoing

Volume: Few records among several 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 ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Archives.

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