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History

St. Teresa Church was formed out of St. Leo's, Mimico 1924 to serve the Town of New Toronto. The congregation worshipped in the Century Hall (on Sixth Street) until the old church on Tenth Street was finished the next year, 1925.http://www.newtorontohistorical.com/Religion.htm The first pastor, Fr. Clancy who chose the dedication for the parish (St. Theresa), was succeeded by Fr. Carroll as the Second World War began in 1939, bringing in a period of many changes for the parish.

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was formed out of St. Theresa's in 1939 to serve the growing village (former sea side resort) to the west. With the end of the war, many Polish families began to move into the area from war-torn Europe, taking work at local industries; this led to the 1957 founding of St. Teresa Catholic Elementary School beside the church. After liturgical changes in the Latin Rite, a new, modernist style church was built on Eleventh Street in 1967; the old church was demolished. The local

, which serves all the southern Etobicoke parishes, recently moved from the Alderwood area into the nearby former Mimico Asylum grounds which is in St Teresa's Parish. StTheresaRCChurchOldNewToronto

Pastors

*Rev. A. Clancy (1925 - 1938) *Rev. M. Carroll (1938 - 1972) *Rev. Jan Burczyk (2002 - 2012) *Rev. Adam Gabriel (2012-2016) *Rev. Dariusz Lewandowski (current)

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