The origins of the Polish Catholic parish in Kroszyn nad Szczarą date back to the mid-15th century, when Juszko Gojcewicz founded a wooden temple dedicated to Corpus Christi and Saints Gregory and Nicholas. This parish had the patronage of the nobility and belonged to the diocese of Vilnius. The temple burned down twice: in 1791 and 1916, as a result of the actions of World War I. The most difficult period for the citizens and believers was the years of national captivity under the Russian tsars. After Poland regained its independence, when the survivors returned from exile to their family homes, all citizens of Kroszyn undertook efforts and construction of a new brick temple under the leadership of parish priest Jan Borodzicz. However, before the church in Kroszyn stood ready for consecration in 1931, the local faithful gathered in a temporary and modest chapel. It had sufficient liturgical paraments: apparatuses and chalices, liturgical and parish books, church linen, paintings, and statues. All this was the chapel’s equipment and property of the Kroszyn parish, which we learn about from the inventory of the chapel of the Parish Church of the Corpus Christi in Kroszyn dated February 3, 1925. The parish, from 1925, laid within the territory of the newly created Pinsk diocese. The parish temple, built from scratch, was consecrated in 1931 by Bishop Zygmunt Łoziński, the Ordinary of this diocese.
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