Founder(s) Polish immigrants Address Suffield, CT 06078, USA Dedication Saint Joseph | Denomination Roman Catholic | |
Founded March 12, 1916 (1916-03-12) Similar St Joseph's Convent, Sacred Heart Church, St Joseph's Church, St Joseph's Roman Cahtolic, St Adalbert School | ||
St. Joseph Parish - designated for Polish immigrants in Suffield, Connecticut, United States.
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 a newly created St. Joseph Parish. The new pastor celebrated the first parochial Mass on Easter Sunday 1916 in the Edwin D. Morgan stable purchased earlier by the St. Joseph Society and by now converted into the first parish church.
On November 9, 1952, Bishop Henry J. O'Brien dedicated modern St. Joseph Church, a Georgian style brick edifice.
References
St. Joseph Parish, Suffield Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA