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| Address: | 208 Ann Street Medina, N.Y. 14103 |
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| Telephone: | 716-798-0356 | |
| Founded: | Jun 1909 | |
| Pastor: | Rev Joseph Fifagrowicz | |
| Mass Schedule: | Saturdays 5:30 PM; Sundays 9 :30 AM | |
| Parish census: | 219 Families | |
| School: | School Closed | |
| Year Built: | Unknown | |
| Style: | Redbrick |
The village of Medina, N.Y., prospered with the building of the Erie Canal in the early 1820s. Located on the canal route, the local businesses and farms had a valuable transportation carrier for their products. Poles attracted to this area as early as the 1890s, first traveled the distance to Albion, to the only Polish parish in this part of Western New York.
In the next twenty years, their numbers increased and by 1909 they petitioned the Bishop of Buffalo for their own parish and priest. The pastor of St. Mary's in Albion, formed a mission parish and the following year (1910), the Bishop sent the Rev. Tomas Gwodz to serve as the first pastor. Fr. Gwodz built the first church and also witnessed the increase in the parish population.
Rev. Wojciech Cichy was the second pastor and returned after a two year absence to serve again. Fr. Cichy is remembered for his uplifting of the parish spiritually, a mild mannered man, he is pleasantly remembered by many whose lives he touched. Being a small rural parish, there was never a large student population, but under Fr. Mioduszewski, a parish school was organized under the direction of the Franciscan Sisters. Most pastors served only short periods of time, gaining experience and then transferring to larger urban parishes. The neat but small parish has seen good and hard times, its present pastor is Fr. Fifagrowicz.