GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
Alaska: AK-26

Holy Name Church and School
433 Jackson Street
Ketchikan, AK 99901

Phone: 907-225-2570
Email: churchoffice@holynamektn.org

 

Hours: See website

 

History: Holy Name Church, Ketchikan, Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska, has been a mixed Native (e.g. Tlingit, Haida) and non-Native American parish in the Archdiocese of Anchorage-Juneau (Archives: Juneau, Alaska).

1902-1907

Jesuits (California Province) (Archives: St. Louis, Missouri) visited Ketchikan (Tlingit, Haida)

1907-1930

Jesuits (California, Oregon Provinces) (Archives: St. Louis, Missouri) established and administered Holy Name Church and School (Tlingit, Haida)

1930-1964

Jesuits administered Holy Name

1964-1968

Vincentians (Western Province, Perryville, Missouri) administered Holy Name

1960s-1988

Juneau diocesan priests administered Holy Name

1988-1995

Oblates of Mary Immaculate (Pacific, United States Provinces) (Archives: Washington, D.C.) administered Holy Name

1995-2020

Juneau diocesan priests administered Holy Name

2020-present

Anchorage-Juneau archdiocesan priests have administered Holy Name

Various priests at Holy Name attended to:

1909-1930 (became a parish)

St. Rose of Lima Mission (Tlingit), Wrangell/ Fort Wrangel 

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans: 

Inclusive dates: 1902-ongoing

Volume: Several entries among several volumes 

Description: Sacramental records (e.g. baptisms, marriages, burials) for the Native American parishioners of Holy Name Church and its attended Native missions. Student records from the parish grade school follow students to middle school in the Ketchikan School District.

 

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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