St. Mary Parish, Torrington
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.
History
On October 26, 1919, St. Mary Parish was created when Fr. John Kowalski was named first pastor. He celebrated the first Masses for St. Mary in St. Francis chapel. A basement church was completed in 1921 and dedicated on October 5, 1921, by Bishop John Joseph Nilan. The completed church was dedicated on May 30, 1927.
St. Mary parish merged with St. Francis of Assisi, St. Peter, and Sacred Heart parishes in June 2017 to form St. John Paul the Great Parish. St. Mary and Sacred Heart churches were advertised for sale in January 2019.[1]
References
- ^ Stannard, Ed (January 23, 2019). "Pain mingles with acceptance as closed Catholic churches are sold". The County Times. Retrieved October 25, 2020.
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. Mary - Diocesan information
- St. Mary - ParishesOnline.com
- Archdiocese of Hartford
- v
- t
- e
- 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
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Hartford.svg/80px-Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Hartford.svg.png)
- 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
- 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
Catholicism portal
![]() | This article about a Catholic Church in the United States church building is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e