St. Peter Parish - designated for Polish immigrants in

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. : Founded 1918. It was one of the

Polish-American Roman Catholic parishes in New England A number of Polish-American Catholic parishes were founded by Polish immigrants in New England, United States from 1887. There are 78 such parishes in 10 dioceses. Fr Franciszek Chalupka was the founder of the first Polish-American parishes in Ne ...

in the

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. The parish closed August 3, 1997.

Bibliography

* Our Lady of Czestochowa Parish - Centennial 1893-1993 * The Official Catholic Directory in USA

External links

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston

Closed and Merged Parishes
Roman Catholic parishes of Archdiocese of Boston Polish-American Roman Catholic parishes in Massachusetts Norwood, Massachusetts {{Massachusetts-RC-church-stub