Indian Mission

Currently, the Diocese of Fairbanks has just 10 priests to serve its 38 rural churches across western Alaska, with one additional part-time priest from Michigan who flies to several of the most remote villages a few times per year.

St. Stephen's Elementary 4th-grade students learning about using dictionaries. The whole class was shocked to learn that the longest word in the English language has 1,909 letters.

Christmas Midnight Mass at Midnight at St. Francis Solanus Mission on the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation in Wisconsin is always very exciting! No parish in the area had Midnight Mass at midnight, except our Mission.

In the fall of 2023, Bishop Mario Dorsonville hosted an event bringing all of the Native American communities together in celebration of faith.

Bishop Robert Marshall celebrated the annual Mass for indigenous peoples at Our Lady of Guadalupe (Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe) Mission in Forest Hill. The Mass traditionally invokes the intercession of St. Kateri Tekakwitha.

Currently, the Diocese of Fairbanks has just 10 priests to serve its 38 rural churches across western Alaska, with one additional part-time priest from Michigan.