Keeping the heat on - Finances in the Diocese of Fairbanks

“Roughly 85% of all of our funding comes from outside the diocese.”

It takes a lot of money to run a parish or diocese.

Personnel, property, and insurance costs quickly add up, no matter where you live. But few dioceses have a budget line for snowmobiles and bush plane flights, or operating costs for remote parishes that cannot be accessed by road.

Cargo being loaded off of a small plane in an Alaskan village. Photo court…