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The first permanent Catholic Church in New Haven, Connecticut was Saint Mary Parish, founded as Christ Church in 1834 in a wood building at the corner of Davenport Avenue, York Street, and Cedar Street. After a fire in 1848, the congregation moved and took its current name, St. Mary's. The site of the original Christ Church was later home to Saint John the Evangelist Parish. In 1882, the assistant pastor of Saint Mary Parish, Reverend Michael McGivney established the Knights of Columbus in the parish hall. McGivney was beatified in October 2021 at the Cathedral of Saint Joseph in Hartford, CT.

In the 1880's, the Dominican Order purchased land on Edwards Street for a new priory. However, the bishop of Hartford offered them use of Saint Mary Church instead in 1886. A priory building was build adjacent to the church in the early 1900s. The Dominican Order served Saint Mary's for 135 years until 2021. The archdiocese bought the Edward Street property from the Dominicans, and eventually built Saint Joseph Church.

Google Ngram
Google Ngrams are often used as an argument that the use of "Catholic Church" is increasing over time. Care must be taken, as interpreting Ngrams can become borderline WP:Original Research if used in direct article content. As a basis of argument for editorial decisions, some important key points must be kept in mind:
 * Every instance of "Catholic" double counts the Catholic in "Roman Catholic"
 * "Catholic" is also used in a variety religious and liturgical contexts, such as the Apostle's Creed and Nicene Creed, and such uses are not necessarily specific to the Catholic Church

In the chart above illustrating an Ngram taken in October 2022, the raw count for "Catholic" is three-four times higher than "Roman Catholic" since 1800, yet subtracting out the double counted portion, Catholic is used closer to only twice as many times. When you account for use by Protestants in liturgical texts (and to describe the nature of their own churches, the use between "Roman Catholic" and "Catholic" is likely closer to an even split. There is a notable increase since 1980, but also a leveling off after 2000. The above chart deliberately uses "Catholic Church" and "Roman Catholic Church" to limit the non-Catholic uses; still the phrase "Catholic Church" is in the Creeds shared by many Christian Denominations. The Ngrams can provide insight into general trends, must must be interpreted with care.