By Jay Tokasz
News Staff Reporter
October 11, 2009, 2:56 PM
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The area’s first Catholic parish for Polish-Americans, St. Stanislaus, is being designated a shrine and also will have a Polish cultural center, Bishop Edward U. Kmiec said in a message read to parishioners at weekend Masses.
The designation will be accompanied, as well, by another step in the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo’s parish restructuring effort.
St. Stanislaus, located at 123 Townsend St., will “link” with another historically Polish parish, St. John Kanty, at 101 Swinburne St., effective Dec. 1, the diocese announced today. That means the two parishes will share a new pastor, whom Kmiec is expecting to appoint later this month.
The Rev. Antoni Lutostanski, longtime pastor of St. John Kanty, is set to retire on Dec. 1. And Auxiliary Bishop Edward M. Grosz, pastor of St. Stanislaus since 2003, is moving to full-time work in the diocesan chancery, where he is vicar general for the diocese.
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