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St. Joseph Parish, Suffield

Church in Connecticut, United States

41°58′39″N 72°39′7.3″W / 41.97750°N 72.652028°W / 41.97750; -72.652028Location140 South Main Street
Suffield, ConnecticutCountryUnited StatesDenominationRoman CatholicHistoryFoundedMarch 12, 1916 (1916-03-12)Founder(s)Polish immigrantsDedicationSt. JosephAdministrationDivisionVicariate: HartfordSubdivisionEnfieldProvinceHartfordArchdioceseHartfordClergyArchbishopMost Rev. Leonard Paul Blair, D.D.Pastor(s)Rev. William L Baldyga

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.

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

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. Joseph - Diocesan information
St. Joseph - 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