About

St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church began in 1908 as the Albany Avenue Mission in a building erected to be the parish house at 14 Lenox Street, Hartford. The parish was organized and admitted to the Diocese as St. Andrew’s Church in 1910.

During a capital funds drive of the Diocese in 1950, Frederick Roff, who lived on Cottage Grove Road in Bloomfield, gave the land on the northeast corner of his land for a church. St. Andrew’s had been experiencing a drop in membership at its location in Hartford and was offered the property.

In 1952 the parish moved to Bloomfield, having built a new church and having sold the Hartford property. In 1958 a wing was added to the north side of the building. The name of the parish was changed to St. Stephen’s in 1961 to avoid the confusion caused by the fact that there had already been a St. Andrew’s Church in Bloomfield (now Old St. Andrew’s).