St. Hedwig Parish, Union City

Church in Connecticut, United States

41°30′10.5″N 73°02′39.8″W / 41.502917°N 73.044389°W / 41.502917; -73.044389Location32 Golden Hill Street
Union City, ConnecticutCountryUnited StatesDenominationRoman CatholicHistoryFoundedFebruary 18, 1906 (1906-02-18)Founder(s)Polish immigrantsDedicationSt. HedwigDedicatedJune 2, 1907 (1907-06-02)AdministrationDivisionVicariate: WaterburySubdivisionNaugatuck-CheshireProvinceHartfordArchdioceseHartfordClergyArchbishopMost Rev. Leonard Paul BlairPastor(s)Rev. Edmund K KarwowskiDeacon(s)Rev. Mr Thomas Clifford

St. Hedwig Parish - designated for Polish immigrants 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.

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

The 150th Anniversary of Polish-American Pastoral Ministry. Webster, Massachusetts: St. Joseph Basilica. September 11, 2005.
The Official Catholic Directory in USA

External links

St. Hedwig - Diocesan information
St. Hedwig - ParishesOnline.com
Archdiocese of Hartford

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford

Ordinaries

Bishops: William Tyler; Bernard O'Reilly; Francis Patrick McFarland; Thomas Galberry, O.S.A.; Lawrence S. McMahon; Michael Tierney; John J. Nilan; Maurice F. McAuliffe

Archbishops: Henry J. O'Brien; John Francis Whealon; Daniel Anthony Cronin; Henry J. Mansell; Leonard P. Blair

Coadjutor archbishops: Christopher J. Coyne

Auxiliary bishops

Joseph Francis Donnelly

Juan Miguel Betancourt

Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral of St. Joseph, Hartford

Basilica: Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, Waterbury

Parishes: St. Joseph Church, Ansonia; St. Stanislaus Church, Bristol; St. Michael the Archangel Church, Derby; St. Adalbert Church, Enfield; St. Augustine Church, Hartford; Holy Trinity Church, Hartford; SS. Cyril and Methodius Church, Hartford; St. Stanislaus Church, Meriden; Holy Cross Church, New Britain; Sacred Heart Church, New Britain; St. Mary's Church, New Haven; St. Joseph's Church, New Haven; St. Stanislaus Church, New Haven; St. Mary Church, Newington; Church of the Immaculate Conception, Norfolk; Immaculate Conception Church, Southington; St. Joseph Church, Suffield; St. Casimir Church, Terryville; St. Mary Church, Torrington; St. Hedwig Church, Union City; St. Patrick - St. Anthony Church, Hartford; SS. Peter and Paul Church, Wallingford; St. Anne Church, Waterbury; Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Waterbury

Former parishes: St. Anne/Immaculate Conception Parish, Hartford; St. Stanislaus Kostka Church, Waterbury

Education

Seminaries: St. Thomas Seminary, Bloomfield

High schools: Academy of Our Lady of Mercy, Lauralton Hall, Milford; Canterbury School, New Milford; East Catholic High School, Manchester; Holy Cross High School, Waterbury; Northwest Catholic High School, West Hartford; Notre Dame High School, West Haven; Sacred Heart Academy, Hamden; Sacred Heart High School, Waterbury; St. Paul Catholic High School, Bristol