The first Catholic Mass on Alaskan soil was celebrated by two priests doing survey work with a Spanish fleet. On Ascension Day, May 13, 1779, at Bucareli Bay (near Craig, Prince of Wales Island), Fr. Juan Riobo records: “I sang a Mass of Thanksgiving for the safe voyage…a little Indian girl was baptized.”In 1872, Rome placed the Alaskan territory under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Victoria, BC, the closest Diocese. Bishop John Seghers of Victoria made his first visit to Alaska in 1873. He established St. Rose of Lima, the first Catholic Parish in Alaska, in Wrangell on May 3, 1879, just 100 years after the Spanish priests had been here. Fr. John Althoff, a Diocesan priest of the Victoria Diocese, was appointed Pastor, with missions in Sitka and Juneau.
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