Narewski, Peter A., Rev.
(Dec. 12, 1920 - Aug. 19, 2007)
PriestPeter Narewski was born in Wilmington, Delaware, the son of Witold Narewski, who came from Fesenowka, Poland, in 1913, and Anna Uniatowska, and received a good Catholic education at St. Hedwig's grade school and Salesianum high school.
He studied for the priesthood at St. Mary College and SS. Cyril and Methodius Seminary in Orchard Lake, Michigan, and was ordained on May 31, 1947, at the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul, Providence, Rhode Island, by Bishop Francis P. Keough.
The bishop of the Providence diocese assigned him to Central Falls, the smallest but most densely populated city in Rhode Island, where in 1906 Polish textile workers had established St. Joseph's parish. He assisted the pastor of the Polish parish until May 1948 when he became administrator for a short time of another Polish parish in the diocese, Our Lady of Czestochowa in Coventry, and was pastor of the same parish from February 1972 to August 1986 when he retired due to poor health.
In between this place and Central Falls, where his father died in 1972, he was the shepherd of St. Casimir's parish in Warren, first in 1950 as an administrator and 1970 as pastor.
After his retirement, he went to a home for retired priests in Providence, Rhode Island, and then joined his siblings in Broward County, Florida. He was buried in the historic St. Mary's Cemetery at Crompton, Rhode Island, where the first Catholic church in the state was built in 1845.
From: Edward Pinkowski (2009)