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.