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Minor Basilica Proclamation
FROM THE OFFICE OF THE CONGREGATION
FOR DIVINE WORSHIP AND THE DISCIPLINE
OF THE SACRAMENT - FEBRUARY 9,
2008
At the request of His Excellency, the Most Reverend
Henry
Joseph Mansell, Archbishop of
Hartford, in his letter dated
December 8,
2006, prompted by the prayers and requests of the
clergy and the
faithful, the Congregation for Divine
Worship and
the Discipline of the Sacrament, in
virtue of special faculties given
by the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI,
gladly bestows on the parish
church dedicated to God in honor of
the Immaculate Conception
of the Blessed Virgin Mary in
Waterbury the title and dignity of
a Minor Basilica, with all the laws
and liturgical rites faithfully
observed according to the Decree
“DE TITULO BASILICAE MINORIS”,
promulgated on the ninth of November
1989.
Anything to the contrary not
withstanding.
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