St. Regis Parish celebrates dedication of new chapel


The new chapel, which was blessed by Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron on Dec. 5, is pictured at St. Regis Parish in Bloomfield Hills.


BLOOMFIELD HILLS — Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron dedicated a newly constructed chapel at St. Regis Parish in Bloomfield Hills and consecrated its altar Dec. 5 during a special liturgy.

The new chapel, which was build using funds from the parish’s Changing Lives Together campaign, which raised more than $4 million.

The new chapel seats approximately 100 people and will be used for daily Mass, Eucharistic adoration, small weddings and funerals, baptisms and other events.

Stained glass windows repurposed from the now-closed St. John Cantius Parish in Detroit adorn the new chapel, which also features historic reredos, a crucifix and statues of the Blessed Virgin and St. John the Apostle. A custom constructed rose window depicts the Holy Spirit, and a new ambo and altar table were made by local artists.

The new chapel construction followed an earlier overhaul of the church itself, which was completed in the summer of 2015, which features  a new tabernacle, crucifix, pews, Stations of the Cross, flooring and cherry-wood paneling and renovation of St. Regis’ historic 1,900-pipe organ.
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