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Hartford Courant
Interactive Map: Archdiocese of Hartford Reconfiguration
Jordan Otero Sisson
Fifty-nine parishes in the Archdiocese of Hartford will be merged under a plan that church leaders say is designed to launch a new era of Catholicism in Connecticut, church leaders said Saturday morning.
The mergers, which will be effective as of June 29, will involve unions of two, three, four, five and six parishes, according to a press release.
New Haven County was hit the hardest, with 16 parishes there slated for closure, according to the plan available on the archdiocese’s website.
The archdiocese, which currently oversees 212 parishes in Hartford, Litchfield and New Haven counties, spent the two years developing a reorganization plan.
Under the new structure, there will be 127 pastorates in the initial phase, from 2017-19. Sixty-eight parishes will remain as-is in the first phase. A pastorate is a single parish with a church and one or more worship sites, campus and ministries, according to the archdiocese’s pastoral planning website.
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