PARAFIA WNIEBOWZIĘCIA NAJŚWIĘTSZEJ MARYI PANNY W STAWACH W DIECEZJI PIŃSKIEJ W ŚWIETLE INWENTARZA Z 16 PAŹDZIERNIKA 1933 ROKU
ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY PARISH IN STAWY OF THE PINSK DIOCESE IN THE LIGHT OF THE PARISH INVENTORY OF 16TH OCTOBER 1933

Summary/Abstract: Joanna (or Jan) and Jerzy Stawski founded a wooden church structure in their property town of Stawy, Brest Voivodeship of Great Dutchy of Lithuania in the middle of the 15th century. The new church, also wooden, was built in Stawy in the first half of the 18th century. The bishop of Lutsk Stefan Bogusław Rupniewski consecrated it as the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St James the Great parish church in 1739 in the deanery of Kamieniec Litewski. The tsarist government closed the parish, and the temple was taken over by the Orthodox in 1864. In 1919, it returned to the Catholics, and the village of Stawy was incorporated back into the independent Second Polish Republic. It was a part of the diocese of Minsk and since 1925 of the newly created Diocese of Pinsk. The presented inventory of the Stawy parish church was prepared by the current parish priest Fr Ignacy Drozdowicz and handed over to his successor Fr Piotr Sadowski with the parish on 16th October 1933.

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