GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
Colorado: CO-18
St. Bernadette Church. Kateri Community of Colorado
7240 West Twelfth Avenue
Lakewood, CO 80214
Phone: 303-233-1523
Email: stbernparish@gmail.com
History: St. Bernadette Church, Lakewood, Jefferson County, Colorado, has been a predominantly non-Native American parish in the Archdiocese of Denver (Archives: Denver, Colorado). It had some Native American parishioners (e.g. Apache, Dakota-Lakota, Navajo, Ojibwa, Ute) who founded the Kateri Catholic Indian Community of Colorado, which then became a ministry of St. Bernadette’s.
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After 1960 |
Denver area Native Americans established the Kateri Catholic Indian Community of Colorado |
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1968-1999 |
Rev. John Q O’Connell, C.M. [Vincentians] (-1999), (Archives: Chicago, Illinois), an associate pastor of St. Bernadette’s, served the St. Kateri Community |
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1980s-present |
The St. Kateri Community became a ministry of St. Bernadette Church |
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1999-2010s |
Denver archdiocesan priests at St. Bernadette’s have attended the Kateri Community |
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2010s-present |
Jesuits (Archives: St. Louis, Missouri) at St. Bernadette’s have attended to the St. Kateri Community |
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Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:
Inclusive dates: ca. 1960-ongoing
Volume: Several entries within several volumes
Description: Sacramental records (e.g. baptisms, marriages, burials) for Native American parishioners of St. Bernadette 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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