Our Community

Our Lady of Knock Parish is a Roman Catholic parish that was formally created through the merger of St. Mary Star of the Sea Church in Unionville and St. Patrick Church in Farmington on January 12, 2025.
 
With the retirement of the Msgr. Michael Motta from St. Mary Star of the Sea Church in late 2021 and the retirement of Msgr. Thomas Barry from St. Patrick Church in early 2022, Fr. Matt Gworek and Fr. Josh Wilbur were asked to come in and serve both communities, splitting their time and efforts between the church campuses, events, activities, and prayer of both locations.
 
This sharing of priests was continued with Fr. Roberto McCarthy coming to replace Fr. Josh in 2023 and has led to beautiful opportunities in which the churches were able to come together for meaningful spiritual, social, and charitable experiences, projects, and programs. This successful collaboration led to the work of officially merging the churches into one formally connected and unified parish. This connection and the newfound Catholic unity that has been built among the parishioners has provided a new bond that looks to help strengthen the people and prayer life of the Farmington community.