Connect to the
catholic Diocese of Fairbanks
Chancery is located at 1316 Peger Road, Fairbanks AK 99709

Bishop Steve J. Maekawa, O.P., was born in Seattle on November 22, 1967, to Don and Kiyo Maekawa. Having met at a Veterans Hall dance, Don and Kiyo married and made their home in the Seattle suburbs. This November, they will celebrate their 61st wedding anniversary. Influenced by the Jesuits and a Billy Graham crusade, Kiyo had converted to Catholicism while a student at the University of Hawaii. She raised Bishop Maekawa, his older sisters, Karen and Suzy, and his younger brother, Robert, in the Faith. 







Bishop Maekawa met the Dominican Friars, Province of the Most Holy Name of Jesus (western United States) while studying architecture at the University of Washington. Upon graduation, he joined the Order, receiving the habit on September 8, 1990. Having completed the novitiate, he professed his first vows on September 14, 1991.









Bishop Maekawa was ordained a priest in 1998 in Oakland, California and was assigned to St. Dominic’s Parish in San Francisco. Later assignments included Director of the University of Washington’s Prince of Peace Newman Center and Director of Vocations for the Western Dominican Province. Other internal ministry roles included serving twelve years on the Provincial Council. In addition to assignments in the Province, he also served as a reserve Navy chaplain, assigned to Marine and Navy reserve units, and deployed to Afghanistan with the Army’s 25th Infantry Division. Most recently, he served for seven years as Pastor of Holy Family Old Cathedral in Anchorage, where the Dominicans have been ministering since 1974. 

The Diocese of Fairbanks is comprised of 409,849 square miles in the State of Alaska and has a total population of 164,025, of which 11,876 are Catholic.

Little Flower Ministries’ mission is to transmit the Good News of Jesus Christ as echoed by the Magisterium and guided by the Holy Spirit; in order to help build sacramental, abundant prayer lives among our listeners, inspiring greater works of charity and a powerful, loving witness to our glorious Catholic Faith.

Listento 92.7 FM KQHE
 

Catholic Online
World's Catholic Library
 

catholic.org

Amen's mission is to lead others toward peace and rest in mind, body and soul through Catholic prayer and meditation. We want to help people find the joy and peace that they were made for—and that can be found only in God.

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is an assembly of the hierarchy of bishops who jointly exercise pastoral functions on behalf of the Christian faithful of the United States and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Learn more about the 2021-2023Synod
and pray theAdsumus Sancte Spiritusprayer which means “We stand before You, Holy Spirit.”