A Brief Parish History of St. Stephen Parish - Paterson NJ Golden Jubilee Book from the 1953

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A brief parish history of St. Stephen Parish - Paterson NJ Golden Jubilee Book from the 1953. CAP at Orchar Lake. The Poles began to settle in Paterson in about the year 1883. They found themselves in a city as strange to them in ways and speech, as they themselves must have seemed to those who were already residents of this city. Year after year more families arrived. Being a thrifty nation and liberty loving, they found conditions in this city highly favorable. The Poles have been for centuries, a devout Catholic race; consequently, they aspired more and more to the founding of a Polish Catholic Church where they could hear the word of God in their own tongue and join in the services of their Church. For many years, the Poles attended the parishes of Saint John, Saint Boniface, and Our Lady of Lourdes. To start a Church for themselves, they encountered two principal difficulties: (a) Lack of Polish Catholic Priests (b) Lack of Finances In 1903 the idea of forming a Polish Catholic Church became concrete. A group of friends composed of Messrs. John Gniedziejko, Frank Strezeski, Stanislaus Krzeminski and Joseph Stark approached Father A. Stein, Rector of Our Lady of Lourdes Church, asking him for help to organize their own church, according to the laws of Church and State. In October of 1903 this committee received from the Most Reverend Bishop John O'Connor a letter addressed to Frank Strezeski, head of the committee, wherein a favorable answer was given to their petition to a corporation committee to build a church of their own. Meanwhile, having no Polish speaking priest on hand, visiting Polish priests would come every Sunday for Vesper Services only from neighboring cities, e.g.: Rev. Boleslaus Kwiatkowski, Jersey City Rev. Valentine Chlebowski, Passaic Rev. John Strzelecki, New York City December 14, 1903, the Church (in abstracto, i. e., without buildings) "Saint Stephen's Polish Roman Catholic Church, Paterson, N. J." was officially incorporated. Name of incorporators: 1.

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