| Blessed Sacrament Church | |
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 Blessed Sacrament Church | |
| 47°40′00″N122°19′03″W / 47.66667°N 122.31750°W /47.66667; -122.31750 | |
| Location | Seattle, Washington |
| Denomination | Catholic |
| Religious order | Dominican |
| Weekly attendance | 1,100+ families 1,000+ students |
| History | |
| Founded | December 6, 1908 |
| Founder(s) | Fr. Francis Driscoll, O.P. |
| Dedicated | October 4, 1925 |
| Architecture | |
| Heritage designation | National Register of Historic Places, Seattle Landmark |
| Designated | January 12, 1984 (NRHP) March 2, 1981 (Seattle)[1] |
| Style | Neo-Gothic |
| Administration | |
| Archdiocese | Seattle |
| Deanery | North Seattle |
| Parish | Blessed Sacrament |
| Clergy | |
| Prior | Fr. Dominic Briese, O.P. |
| Vicar(s) | Fr. Francis Le, O.P. |
| Pastor(s) | Fr. Dominic David Maichrowicz, O.P. |
| Chaplain(s) | Fr. Marcin Szymański, O.P.(University of Washington Newman Center) Fr. Chrysostom Mijinke, O.P.(University of Washington Newman Center) |
Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Priory, and School | |
| NRHP reference No. | 84003479 |
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| Added to NRHP | January 12, 1984 |
TheChurch of the Blessed Sacrament is aRoman Catholic parish within theArchdiocese of Seattle servingSeattle'sUniversity District. It is the only parish in the archdiocese to be owned and operated by theOrder of Preachers and is within the jurisdiction of theWestern Dominican Province. The church's currentprior is Fr. Dominic Briese, and the currentpastor is Fr. Dominic David Maichrowicz.[2]
The church building, its priory, and its parish school building were added to theNational Register of Historic Places in 1984 asChurch of the Blessed Sacrament, Priory, and School. Damage from the2001 Nisqually earthquake led to extensive repairs in 2010.[3] It ministers to the Catholic undergraduate and graduate students at theUniversity of Washington through the Prince of PeaceNewman Center, which is the fifth-oldest Newman Center and the first to be run by the Dominican Order. Fr. Marcin Szymański is the current pastor of the Newman Center, and Fr. Chrysostom Mijinke, is the parochial vicar.[4] As of 2019,FOCUS missionaries have been serving the parish and Newman Center's ministries as well.
The church is unique among the Order of Preachers because of its practice of appointing yearly Dominicanseminarians to serve as "student brothers" for one year, working with both the pastor of Blessed Sacrament and the chaplains at the University of Washington Newman Center to deliver catechesis to a variety of public audiences.[5]
Thepriory, completed in 1922, was designed byArnold Constable.[6]
The school, designed by theBeezer Brothers, completed in 1913, was a 56 by 77 feet (17 m × 23 m) two-story woodframe structure. "Because of numerous building and fire code violations, the building was condemned in 1948. Plans to demolish the existing structure and erect a new parish hall on the site will probably be executed in the near future". A replacement school was built in 1950 already?[6]
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