Saint Patrick Church (Part of the Cathedral Parish)

History & Significance

Cathedral · Est. Parish formed 1889; upper church cornerstone laid 1910, dedicated November 1913

St. Patrick Church, the first Catholic church in the North End of Bridgeport, Connecticut, was established as a parish in 1889 from a division of St. Augustine's Cathedral parish. Mass was first held in a basement church designed by James Murphy of Providence; the cornerstone of the present upper church, designed by Dwyer and McMahon of Hartford, was laid in 1910, with the dedication Mass offered in November 1913. In 2011 the parish merged with St. Augustine's to form The Cathedral Parish, now serving Catholics of the Diocese of Bridgeport with Masses in English, Spanish, and a monthly Igbo-Nigerian liturgy.

Early-20th-century Gothic Revival masonry church

• •Parish established in 1889, the first Catholic church in Bridgeport's North End
• •Upper church designed by Dwyer and McMahon of Hartford; cornerstone laid 1910, dedicated November 1913
• •Basement church designed by James Murphy of Providence, Rhode Island
• •Merged with St. Augustine's Cathedral in 2011 to form The Cathedral Parish
• •Belongs to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport (Province of Hartford)