St. Hedwig Parish - designated for
Polish immigrants
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* Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe
* Polish language
* Poles, people from Poland or of Polish descent
* Polish chicken
*Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin screen ...
in
Union City, Connecticut,
United States.
: Founded on February 18, 1906. It is one of the
Polish-American Roman Catholic parishes in New England in the
Archdiocese of Hartford
The Archdiocese of Hartford is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Hartford, Litchfield and New Haven counties in the U.S. State of Connecticut. The archdiocese includes about 470,000 Catholics, more ...
.
History
On February 14, 1906, Bishop
Michael Tierney dispatched Fr. Ignacy Maciejewski as the first Polish pastor in
Union City. Fr. Maciejewski celebrated the first parish Mass at Sokolowski Hall on February 18, 1906. By the year's end, a Polish church was built and formally dedicated on June 2, 1907.
Bibliography
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* The Official Catholic Directory in USA
External links
St. Hedwig - Diocesan informationSt. Hedwig - ParishesOnline.comArchdiocese of Hartford
Roman Catholic parishes of Archdiocese of Hartford
Polish-American Roman Catholic parishes in Connecticut
Naugatuck, Connecticut
Churches in New Haven County, Connecticut
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