St. Hedwig Parish, Union City

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St. Hedwig Parish
St. Hedwig Parish, Union City
St. Hedwig Parish
41°30′10.5″N73°02′39.8″W / 41.502917°N 73.044389°W / 41.502917; -73.044389
Location 32 Golden Hill Street
Union City, Connecticut
Country United States
Denomination Roman Catholic
History
FoundedFebruary 18, 1906 (1906-02-18)
Founder Polish immigrants
Dedication St. Hedwig
DedicatedJune 2, 1907 (1907-06-02)
Administration
DivisionVicariate: Waterbury
SubdivisionNaugatuck-Cheshire
Province Hartford
Archdiocese Hartford
Clergy
Archbishop Most Rev. Christopher J. Coyne

St. Hedwig Parish - designated for Polish immigrants in Union City, Connecticut, United States.

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Founded on February 18, 1906. It is one of the Polish-American Roman Catholic parishes in New England in the Archdiocese of Hartford.

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.

The parish was linked with nearby St. Mary Parish in 2006. It was announced in April, 2017 that the parish was closing. [1] The last Mass in the building was held on June 29, 2017 at 6PM. [2] The building was sold to Bais Yaakov of Waterbury girls high school. [3]

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