St. Stanislaus Parish (Bristol, Connecticut)

St. Stanislaus Parish
Coordinates: 41°40′51″N 72°56′57″W / 41.68083°N 72.94917°W
Location 510 West Street
Bristol, Connecticut
Country United States
Denomination Roman Catholic
Website Parish website
History
Founded 1919
Founder(s) Polish immigrants
Dedication St. Stanislaus
Dedicated September 6, 1926
Administration
Archdiocese Hartford
Province Hartford
District Bristol
Division Vicariate: Waterbury
Clergy
Archbishop Most Rev. Leonard Paul Blair, S.T.D.
Bishop(s) Most Rev. Christie Macaluso, D.D.
Vicar(s) Rev. Grzegorz Jaworowski
Pastor(s) Rev. Raymond Smialowski

St. Stanislaus Parish - designated for Polish immigrants in Bristol, Connecticut, United States.

Founded in 1919. It is one of the Polish-American Roman Catholic parishes in New England in the Archdiocese of Hartford.

History

On April 21, 1919, Bishop John Joseph Nilan named Fr. George Bartlewski founding pastor of St. Stanislaus Parish. The construction of a basement church, Bishop John Joseph Nilan blessed on September 26, 1920. Auxiliary Bishop John G. Murray dedicated the basement church on May 30, 1921.

In 1954 the basement church was demolished and Masses were temporarily moved to the school hall as plans were made to complete the church. A new Gothic edifice in brick rose on the site of the original church and was dedicated on May 20, 1956. The architect of the new church was James J. O'Shaughnessy.

The organ at St. Stanislaus Church was built in 1956 by Austin Organs, Inc.. It is a two manual instrument with 13 ranks of pipes.[1]

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