The Basilica of the Immaculate Conception

74 West Main Street  -  P.O. Box 1670

Waterbury, Connecticut  06702

  (203) 574-0017  

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      Father John Bevins, a retired Naval Chaplain, was appointed to  take the helm of the Immaculate as her Pastor in June of 1991.

     He started twenty-four hour Eucharistic Adoration, feeding the homeless every morning, bought back music to the Immaculate with the choir, workshops for adult education, and many other accomplishments.

     The church renovation project was a success with the collection of over 1.2 million dollars in under six weeks.  

     The Church of the Immaculate was                 named a Minor Basilica by Pope Benedict XVI    on February 9th, 2008, an honor made possible by Henry Mansell, Archbishop of the         Archdiocese of Hartford with the help of          Sister Mary Kathleen Ronan, a member of           the Religious Sisters of Mercy of Alma, Mich.       and the liturgical consultant for the Archdiocese of Hartford.  

      It became official in the Archdiocese               of Hartford, Sunday, August 10th 2008, at             the 12:30 PM Mass at the Immaculate with            the reading of the basilica proclamation by            Fr. John Bevins in the presents of Archbishop Henry Mansell at which time our Pastor,            Fr. John J. Bevins, then received the title of           The Very Reverend John J. Bevins, Rector of       the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception,  Waterbury, Connecticut.

 Reverend  Stanley Grove, MSA

Reverend John Lyons, MSA

Reverend Susith Silva

Reverend Charles Bak, MSA

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Reverend Dennis Connell, MSA

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