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St. Hedwig's Church (Polish: Kościół Świętej Jadwigi) is a historic parish church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago located in Chicago, Illinois. Constructed in the grand Polish Cathedral style, it is one of the many monumental Polish churches visible from the Kennedy Expressway. The church is located at 2226 North Hoyne Avenue.
Along with such monumental religious edifices as St. Mary of the Angels, St. Hedwig's or St. John Cantius, it is one of the many Polish churches that dominate over the Kennedy Expressway in the Pulaski Park neighborhood of Chicago. Holy Trinity Church is the home of the Holy Trinity Polish Mission since 1987.
Saint John Cantius Church (Polish: Kościół Świętego Jana Kantego) is a Latin Catholic church of the Archdiocese of Chicago.. With the other religious edifices of St. Mary of the Angels, St. Hedwig's or St. Wenceslaus, it is one of the many Polish churches that overlook the nearby Kennedy Expressway.
St. Patrick’s first building opened in 1859. The present building was dedicated in 1867. St Hedwig was founded in 1877. The current church was dedicated in 1883.
Along with St. John Cantius Church (Chicago), St. Stanislaus Kostka, St. Hyacinth Basilica, St. Hedwig, St. Wenceslaus, and Holy Trinity it is one of the monumental Polish churches visible from the Kennedy Expressway. From 1899 until 1990, the parish was administered by priests of the Congregation of the Resurrection.
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The congregation that founded All Saints was formed in 1895 from a group of disgruntled former parishioners of St. Hedwig's which is only three blocks north of the church. Resentful of the dominance of the Resurrectionist Order and dismayed with the Catholic Church hierarchy in the U.S., tensions arose within St. Hedwig's parish. This ...
St. Hedwig's Church (Chicago), Illinois, United States; Other uses. Jadwiga of Poland (1373 or 1374–1399), also spelled Hedwig, first queen of Poland and saint;