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St. Stanislaus Parish – built by Polish immigrants is in Meriden, Connecticut, United States. This Roman Catholic Parish was founded in 1891 and dedicated to the Bishop of Kraków, Stanislaus of Szczepanów, an 11th-century Polish Saint. St. Stan's is the third of the oldest Polish-American Roman Catholic Parish in New England and the oldest in the Archdiocese of Hartford. The Parish built the first Polish Roman Catholic Church in Connecticut, which from January 1893 served as the Church until the building of the current Saint Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr Church in 1908, and as the school until the building of the current Saint Stanislaus Parochial School in 1915. The Parish is made up of the Church; School; Community Center, cafeteria, and gymnasium; rectory and garage, convent and chapel; and the cemetery, as well as an outdoor shrine to the Blessed Virgin Mary. == Early parish history == St. Stanislaus Parish in Meriden, Connecticut, has the distinction of being the first Polish parish founded in the Archdiocese of Hartford. The initiative was taken by the immigrants themselves on January 1, 1889, when John Damach and friends established a Society of St. Stanislaus, Bishop and Martyr. With land at Jefferson and Oak Streets already acquired by the immigrants, Bishop Lawrence Stephen McMahon appointed Fr. Antoni Klawitter as a first pastor in 1891. Bishop Lawrence Stephen McMahon dedicated the first St. Stanislaus Church, a small wooden edifice, on January 8, 1893. With a $9,000 treasury, Fr. John L. Ceppa bought land for a new church site at the corner of Pleasant St. and Olive St. On September 7, 1908 Bishop Michael Tierney dedicated the new church. The architects were Reiley and Steinback of New York and Stamford, CT. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「St. Stanislaus Parish (Meriden, Connecticut)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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