Bridgeport Catholic Academy and St. Gabriel School will unite as one school with two campuses to serve the new parish formed by Nativity of Our Lord and St. Each campus [will be led] by its own principal reporting to the new pastor of the new, unified parish. Therese Chinese School will assume responsibility of [or for] St. Barbara School, retaining campuses at both school properties under the leadership of St. Therese school and name. Therese Chinese parish which already was achieving a union of Chinese and Italian Catholics, as well as others.
As to the unwelcome announcement by the Archdiocese which has been relayed on the Internet by the All Saints — St. The school will be led by the current St. Therese Chinese school principal. The current St. Barbara principal will serve as an administrator at St.
Barbara campus. Steinbach, Although St. Barbara School and Church have had their consolidation with another parish and school announced in unwelcome fashion. When the St. Barbara School was first built, the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Third Order of St. Francis entered. The order administered successfully to many immigrants. Growth led to a school addition being completed in At that time, an auditorium, a six-lane bowling alley and a kitchen were added.
Six new classrooms accommodated a two-year commercial high school. During a s restoration effort, St. Barbara cleaned, repaired, and fully restored its stained glass windows.
The parish placed four additional stained glass scenes in the front church towers in and thus replaced plain glass panes. In , despite its academic performance, St. Barbara High School closed.
The portions of the building previously used by the high school were then adapted to enhance the offerings of St. Barbara Elementary School. There were thus additional facilities for science, technology and the arts. In November of , possible parish closures or parishes to be consolidated involved All Saints — St. Gabriel, St.
Therese Chinese Catholic. Elementary schools serve St. In November of , one scenario had St. Therese merging with All Saints and St. Barbara the latter set to close. Another potential merger involved St. Gabriel and Nativity of our Lord.
Nativity of Our Lord is the longtime church home of the Daley family. The Parish Office of St. Barbara Parish is at South Throop Street. Barbara Parish began more than a century ago.
The nearest Polish parish, St. Mary of Perpetual Help, was bulging at the seams, so Pastor Rev. Stanislaus Nawrocki obtained approval to buy land for a new parish along Throop Street. In , his younger brother, Rev. Anthony Nawrocki, became the first pastor of the new St.
Barbara parish. Mass and the sacraments were celebrated in the basement hall of the school while construction of the church took place.
The domed, Renaissance-style church had no pillars in the interior so that sight lines were clear for the 1, possible worshippers. The dedication and consecration of the church took place July 5, Architects Henry Worthmann and J. Steinbach were either German or Austrian. They also designed St. Mary of the Angels, St. Hyacinth, Our Lady of Lourdes and St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church. A twin of St. Barbara is Our Lady of Tepeyac originally known as St.
According to Parish Historian Walter J. The early beginnings of Santa Lucia Church and its development as a parish must start with a vision seen by Fr. Joseph J.
Joseph, who was pastor of Santa Maria Incoronata, purchased a neighborhood hall at S. Wells St. Santa Lucia has been located at S. Wells Street since [add year here]. In the Archdiocese of Chicago approved the separate administration of Santa Maria Incoronata, and Santa Lucia became a parish on her own. As the years went by, there was increased concern for Catholic education for area children.
In May , the Archdiocese of Chicago gave permission to construct a school. Now in a wave of parish consolidations or closures this independence of parish churches, congregations and schools has been put at risk. Lane, S. The huge dome is of wood construction. It has ornamental copper covering. The apex of the dome rises feet above the floor of the church.
Beneath it lies a church building of brick construction. The windows and arches are Romanesque. Besides the central dome, there are domes and half domes, arches, columns and pilasters.
These are lavishly decorated. They lead up to the white marble altar in the chancel. In John A. From left to right, these depicted saints are St Stanislaus Kostka, Bl.
Kunegunda, St. John Cantius, St. Adalbert, St. Stanislaus, bishop and martyr, St. Casimir, St. Hedwig and St. Andrew Bobola. In there was installed a four-manual Austin organ. When George Lane went to visit the church he found the organ still in use. Such sustenance is found in many of the churches presently being forced to consolidate or close through some incompletely disclosed bureaucratic decision-making process.
George Lane found the organ of St. Mary of Perpetual Help was established as a parish in It served the Polish Catholics of Bridgeport. As the immigrant population swelled, the parish grew. An elementary school and a high school served the new residents.
The Sisters of St. Joseph administered the schools. The Chicago diocesan clergy served the worship needs of the parish. Edward J. He observed the continuing strength of the parish. Bishop Duggan appointed Irish-born Fr.
Michael Lyons to found a parish to serve the people occupying what would soon be known as the Bridgeport neighborhood. Masses were offered in the stables adjacent to the stockyards. The parish was named appropriately since its inception mirrored the birth of Jesus in a stable. The church structure was designed to seat 1, people. A magnificent church and its adjacent buildings were erected under the leadership of Fr.
Joseph M. Cartan , the third pastor of Nativity of Our Lord. Countless young people have been educated in our parish school.
Many have seen their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren graduate from Nativity of Our Lord School and Bridgeport Catholic Academy.
Saint Gabriel Parish and Elementary School is in the heart of Canaryville, a small community of several third- and fourth-generation Irish immigrants. The neighborhood has been proud of its Irish roots. Family ties have run deep in the parish and in the school. Saint Gabriel is a hidden gem. It is tucked away amid century-old homes.
A visitor to the neighborhoods surrounding Canaryville might miss this gem, the way visitors to Chicago might miss the other parishes mentioned here, parishes with their respective sites of significance. Saint Gabriel Parish has celebrated its th Anniversary. Father Maurice Dorney was St. While pastor, Father Dorney graduated from law school. He procured jobs and helped avoid strikes, according to a parish account.
Father Dorney was gifted with a block of stock from the head of National Livestock Bank, according to the account. Brinkmann, For a century or more the faith community formed from these immigrants expanded to include Mexican and Mexican Americans, Nigerians, African Americans, Asian Americans,Haitians and Filipinos who have worshipped together within the Gothic church.
The present St. Bishop Rhode was the first Polish American to be consecrated auxiliary bishop of Chicago. It features two towering steeples that rise over the South Side of Chicago. The architect was William J. The central statue of St. Michael, the two incensing angels and the statues on the side altars were sculpted and painted by hand.
A beautiful and rare communion rail is carved in oak with a white marble top. The interior of the church can seat approximately 1, people. Of interest to lovers of music is the grand piano which belonged to famed composer Ignace Jan Paderewski. The shrine was constructed in Poland in the early s. The Magnificent stained glass windows were made by F. Zettler of Munich, Germany. Of special note are the two transept windows on the East and West sides of the church.
These windows have been considered by some in the parish to be perhaps the largest most beautiful stained glass windows in the Archdiocese of Chicago.
The window on the east side of the church depicts the Pentecost event — the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Virgin Mary and the Apostles. The window on the West side of the church gives imagery to the vision of Saint Michael the Archangel at the Last Judgment. Among other churches in Chicago which claim to house relics, St. Cyprian, Bishop and martyr. The old St. Florian Mission was reorganized as the national parish of St.
Camillus in October of Camillus was established as a Polish parish in , and a complex was developed over the years for St. Construction on the present St.
Camillus Church began in The modern brick edifice was joined to an existing combination building at 55th Street and Lockwood Avenue, and a wing was added to the west side of the church. The wing helped give the church symmetry. For a rectory, the church used an apartment building which it acquired.
The parish school attracted children by After Father Boleslaus J. Kasprzycki became the leader of the church, a new building project was underway.
A three-story structure was added to the original wing on Lockwood Avenue. The church complex serviced the parish for a number of years.
In a history of St. Camillus Church published in The New World of May 24, , the parish membership was given as families. The school had enrollees. The Reverend Joseph J. Mackowiak was appointed pastor of the parish in July of He came from Bridgeport where he had been an assistant at St. Barbara Church. Ground was broken for two new buildings on August 17, A new rectory was constructed at South Lockwood Avenue.
A combination building was constructed at South Lockwood Avenue. It contained eight classrooms and residential accommodations for 12 sisters. Bishop Hillinger dedicated the new parish buildings on October 25, Six hundred students were enrolled in St. Camillus School at the time. The Golden Jubilee of St. Camillus Church was celebrated on October 17, John Cardinal Cody presided at a special Mass of Thanksgiving. In attendance at a parish dinner dance were more than parishioners and their friends.
At the request of the parish Building Committee, Cardinal Cody granted permission on November 28, , for the enlargement of St. Camillus Church. This permission led to a newly renovated church blessed by Bishop Abramowicz at a Concelebrated Mass which took place on September 22, Despite changes in its leadership thereafter, the parish saw a new classroom opened and third floor renovations which reopened two classrooms closed for more than 20 years.
The parish attained a membership of approximately 1, families. Despite this history of success and despite the August assumption of pastoral duties at St. Camillus parish by Father Waclaw Wenceslaus of St. In , Catholic bishops gathered at the Third Plenary Council in Baltimore requesting that each parish support a school. The Chicago Archdiocese responded to this challenge by building the largest parochial school system in the world.
While initiated as a response to nativism, these schools enabled non-English-speaking Catholics to pass on their language and customs to their children. Catholic schools reinforced for every generation the centrality of Catholicism to their identity in America. As new immigrants arrived in Chicago and older groups moved toward the edges of the expanding city, Archbishop James Quigley — aimed to establish a parish for every square mile, ensuring the centrality of the local parish in the lives of its parishioners.
National churches continued to be built within territorial parishes. However, the ethnic divisiveness that followed in the wake of World War I prompted George Cardinal Mundelein, who came to Chicago in , to curtail the establishment of national parishes.
The xenophobia of the s convinced Mundelein that Catholic ethnics should become Americanized. Catholic parishes became mini melting pots as ethnic groups moved up the economic ladder and out of immigrant communities.
In practice, while a number of parishes have consolidated, many church buildings have remained open, at least for now, for weekend Masses. Under the plan announced late Thursday by the archdiocese:. Skip to content. Parishioners walk down the center aisle of St. Rene Parish and St.
Symphorosa Parish in the Clearing neighborhood will merge to form a new parish beginning July 1. Symphorosa will serve as the parish church for the newly formed parish, and its school will remain open. Four parishes — St. The new parish will have a single school at St. Philip Neri. Philip will also serve as the parish church. Three parishes — St. Henry, St. Margaret Mary and St. Timothy — in the West Rogers Park neighborhood, will unite to form a new parish starting July 1.
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