Known as the "Mother Church of Polonia." St. Stanislaus has been the center of daily life as well as spiritual inspiration to the Polish community in Buffalo since newly ordained Father John Pitass organized the parish June 8. 1873. Although the church has been rebuilt and refurbished several times since completion of the first modest church. school. and rectory in early 1874. its influence has remained constant and steadfast for Polish immigrants and their descendants in the Buffalo area for the past century. Symbolic of St. Stanislaus constancy has been the permanence of its pastorsonly three men have served there since its founding.
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