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The Basilica Of The Immaculate Conception
74 West Main Street
Waterbury, Connecticut 06702

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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