title: Saint Maurice Church (Connecticut)
text: # Saint Maurice Church (Connecticut)
  
  St Maurice is a Roman Catholic church in Stamford, Connecticut, part of the Diocese of Bridgeport.
  
  ## History
  
  Referred to as the Little Church on the Hill, St. Maurice Church is named after Bishop Maurice F. McAuliffe who served as the 8th Bishop of Hartford (1934-1944). The Norman-Gothic Revival church was built in 1936 to the designs of the architectural firm of Polak and Sullivan from New Haven, CT.
  
  