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The Diocese of Fairbanks (Latin: Dioecesis de Fairbanks) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church in the northern part of the state of Alaska in the United States. It was formerly named the Prefecture Apostolic of Alaska (1894–1917), the Vicariate Apostolic of Alaska (1917–1951), and the Vicariate ...
Steven John Maekawa, O.P. (born 22 November 1967) is an American prelate and Dominican friar of the Catholic Church who has served as bishop for the Diocese of Fairbanks in Alaska since 2023. At the time of his appointment, he was serving as a priest in the Archdiocese of Anchorage–Juneau , where he was the pastor of Holy Family Old Cathedral .
The new diocese was carved out of the former Vicariate Apostolic of Alaska. [5] The Anchorage area would remain part of the Diocese of Juneau and the remainder of the vicariate for the next 15 years. During the second half of the 20th century, Alaska's population and business growth centered around Anchorage, even though Juneau remained the ...
In February 2008, the diocese of Fairbanks announced plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, claiming inability to pay the 140 plaintiffs, who filed claims against the diocese for alleged sexual abuse by priests or church workers dating from the 1950s to the early 1980s.
Jesuit priests served the parish until 1982, when priests from the Diocese of Fairbanks took over. [2] Bishop Donald Joseph Kettler served as the parish's pastor from 2007 to 2013. The expansion of Airport Road into the Airport Way expressway during the 1970s placed the cathedral's north wall very close to the road, which increased its ...
Chad William Zielinski (born September 8, 1964) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who is the fifth bishop of the Diocese of New Ulm in Minnesota. He previously served as bishop of the Diocese of Fairbanks in Alaska from 2014 to 2022.
George Theodore Boileau (September 12, 1912 – February 25, 1965) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic church. He served as coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Fairbanks in Alaska for seven months from August 1964 to February 1965.
When the Diocese of Juneau was erected on June 23, 1951, the Diocese of Fairbanks was reduced to Northern Alaska On August 8, 1962, Pope John XXIII named Gleeson as the first bishop of the Diocese of Fairbanks.