St. Joseph Parish is a parish designated for
Polish immigrants
Polish may refer to:
* 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
Suffield, Connecticut,
United States. It was founded on March 12, 1916. 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 March 12, 1916, Bishop
John Joseph Nilan appointed Fr. Francis Wladasz as founding pastor of the newly created St. Joseph Parish. The new pastor celebrated the first parochial Mass on Easter Sunday of 1916 in the Edwin D. Morgan stable, purchased earlier by the St. Joseph Society and converted into a church.
On November 9, 1952, Bishop Henry J. O'Brien dedicated modern St. Joseph Church with a Georgian style brick edifice.
Bibliography
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* The Official Catholic Directory in USA
External links
St. Joseph - Diocesan informationSt. Joseph - ParishesOnline.comArchdiocese of Hartford
Roman Catholic parishes of Archdiocese of Hartford
Polish-American Roman Catholic parishes in Connecticut
Suffield, Connecticut
Churches in Hartford County, Connecticut
Christian organizations established in 1916
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1962
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