Roman Catholic Diocese of Juneau

The Diocese of Juneau (Latin: Dioecesis Junellensis) was a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in the northwestern United States, comprising the southeastern part of the state of Alaska.

It was led by the bishop who served as pastor of the mother church, Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Juneau.

On October 3, 1951, Dermot O'Flanagan of Holy Family Church in Anchorage was installed as the first Bishop of Juneau and he served until 1968.

On January 19, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI named Edward J. Burns, a priest of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, as Bishop of Juneau.

The list of bishops and their years of service: As of 2019: In the television series The Young Pope, directed by Paolo Sorrentino, the fictional Pope Pius XIII repeatedly assigned his enemies in the Curia to "Ketchikan, Alaska", to suffer its freezing weather and isolation.

St. Rose of Lima in Wrangell, Alaska , is the oldest Catholic parish in the state of Alaska. The original church stood from 1879-98 and was rebuilt in 1908.