St. Emery Church (Fairfield, Connecticut)

St. Emery is a Roman Catholic church in Fairfield, Connecticut, part of the Diocese of Bridgeport.

The parish, which is dedicated to St. Emeric (Emery) of Hungary, was formed in 1932 to serve Fairfield's growing Hungarian population. In 1971, the parish of St. Stephen in Bridgeport was merged into the parish of St. Emery.Church History, St. Emery's Parish website St. Stephen's Church of Bridgeport, which was founded in 1897, was the second Hungarian Catholic church to be formed in the United States.Shipman, A. (1910), Hungarian Catholics in America, The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved January 24, 2011 from New Advent: https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07545b.htm

The Romanesque Revival church building was designed by noted church architect Anthony J. DePace of New York.

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Diocese of Bridgeport