History
On July 7, 1912, Bishop John Joseph Nilan appointed Fr. Ignatius Maciejewski as administrator of a Polish parish in Waterbury. The priest soon celebrated the first parish Mass in the chapel of Our Lady of Lourdes Church, which the Polish immigrants had rented.
St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish was legally founded on January 30, 1913. Land on East Farm Street was purchased from the Immaculate Conception parish for a church. On August 13, 1914, Bishop John Joseph Nilan named Fr. Theodore Zimmerman the first resident pastor.
The gray granite foundation having been laid, the church cornerstone was blessed on September 14, 1914. The first Mass was celebrated in the completed edifice on October 24, 1915. The completed church superstructure was dedicated on September 26, 1926.
John Gregory Murray was an American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Saint Paul from 1931 until his death in 1956. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Hartford from 1920 to 1925 and as Bishop of Portland in Maine from 1925 to 1932.
St. Stanislaus Kostka Church is an independent Catholic church located in the city of St. Louis, Missouri. Formerly a parish belonging to the Catholic Church, it was established in 1880 to serve the Polish community in the Archdiocese of St. Louis. The parish is maintained and managed by its parishioners as a 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation.
The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Hartford is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Connecticut in the United States. It is a metropolitan see.
Holy Trinity Parish - designated for Polish immigrants in Lowell, Massachusetts, United States.
St. Joseph Parish is a church designated for Polish immigrants in Ansonia, Connecticut, United States.
St. Stanislaus Parish was originally built to serve Polish immigrants in Bristol, Connecticut, United States.
St. Michael the Archangel Parish - designated for Polish immigrants in Derby, Connecticut, United States.
St. Adalbert Parish - designated for Polish immigrants in Enfield, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1915, it is one of the Polish-American Roman Catholic parishes in New England in the Archdiocese of Hartford.
SS. Cyril and Methodius Parish - one of the Polish-American Roman Catholic parishes in New England in the Archdiocese of Hartford. Founded on April 6, 1902, it is designated for Polish immigrants in Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
St. Stanislaus Church in Meriden, Connecticut is a Roman Catholic church originally established in 1891 and dedicated to the Bishop of Kraków, Stanislaus of Szczepanów, an 11th-century Polish Saint. St. Stanislaus's is the third oldest Polish-American Roman Catholic parish in New England and the oldest in the Archdiocese of Hartford. In 2017, Saint Stanislaus parish merged with the nearby Polish-American parish SS. Peter and Paul Parish in Wallingford to form St. Faustina Parish.
Holy Cross Parish is a Roman Catholic parish located in New Britain, Connecticut, United States. Founded on April 8, 1927, it is in the Archdiocese of Hartford and is one of dozens of Polish-American Roman Catholic parishes in New England.
St. Stanislaus Parish, designated for Polish immigrants in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, was founded on December 28, 1901. It is one of the Polish-American Roman Catholic parishes in New England in the Archdiocese of Hartford.
Immaculate Conception Parish - designated for Polish immigrants in Southington, Connecticut, United States. Founded on September 19, 1915. It is one of the Polish-American Roman Catholic parishes in New England in the Archdiocese of Hartford.
St. Joseph Parish is a parish designated for Polish immigrants 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.
St. Mary Parish was a Catholic Church parish in Torrington, Connecticut, in the United States. Founded on October 26, 1919, it is one of the Polish-American Roman Catholic parishes in New England in the Archdiocese of Hartford. The parish church, St. Mary of Częstochowa, closed in 2017 and St. Mary parish merged with four other parishes to form St. John Paul the Great Parish.
St. Hedwig Parish - designated for Polish immigrants in Union City, Connecticut, United States.
St. Stanislaus Kostka Church in Wilmington, Delaware, United States, was founded November 23, 1913, as a Roman Catholic Church on the East Side of Wilmington to serve the needs of a growing Polish immigrant community. The Church was a part of the Diocese of Wilmington, until its closure on February 15, 2009.
The Basilica of the Immaculate Conception is a Roman Catholic church located at 74 West Main Street in Waterbury, Connecticut.
The Church St. Adalbert is a parish church under the authority of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located in Staten Island, New York City. The parish was established in 1901.
Saint Anne Church, formally the Shrine of Saint Anne for Mothers, is a Roman Catholic church located in the South End neighborhood of Waterbury, CT, part of All Saints Parish. Saint Anne Parish was founded in 1886 to serve city's the French-Catholic population. For nearly 100 years, two 100 foot steeples served as a prominent Waterbury landmark; however, due to ongoing structural problems, the spires were carefully removed in 2019 and stored for possible reconstruction.
