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Blessed Sacrament Church

Seattle, US

Blessed Sacrament Church

The Church of the Blessed Sacrament is a Roman Catholic parish within the Archdiocese of Seattle serving Seattle's University District. It is the only parish in the archdiocese to be owned and operated by the Order of Preachers and is within the jurisdiction of the Western Dominican Province. The ch

urch's current prior is Fr. Dominic Briese, and the current pastor is Fr. Dominic David Maichrowicz. The church building, its priory, and its parish school building were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 as Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Priory, and School. Damage from the 2001 Nisqually earthquake led to extensive repairs in 2010. It ministers to the Catholic undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Washington through the Prince of Peace Newman 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. 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 Dominican...

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