title: St. Hedwig Parish, Union City
text: # St. Hedwig Parish, Union City
  
  St. Hedwig Parish - designated for Polish immigrants in Union City, Connecticut, United States.
  
      Founded on February 18, 1906. It is one of the Polish-American Roman Catholic parishes in New England in the Archdiocese of Hartford.
  
  ## History
  
  On February 14, 1906, Bishop Michael Tierney dispatched Fr. Ignacy Maciejewski as the first Polish pastor in Union City. Fr. Maciejewski celebrated the first parish Mass at Sokolowski Hall on February 18, 1906. By the year's end, a Polish church was built and formally dedicated on June 2, 1907.
  
  