Built following a petition was raised by the residents of Danzig-Langfuhr (Gdansk-Wrzeszcz) in 1894 requesting the building of a Catholic Church in the area. It was consecrated in April 1911 having taken under 2 years to build and was designed as a basilica with a rib-like structure over the naves with the steeple reaching 66 metres.

It's greatest claim to fame is that two of the church's parish priests during the 1920s (Fr Franciszek Rogaczewski and Fr Bronisław Komorowski) went on to be beatified by Pope John Paul II.

The church was badly damaged during WWII and many records etc were lost. but it was re-built after the war. In the post-war period it was visited by both Cardinals Wyszyński and Wojtyła (Pope John Paul II as was) and in 2001 was granted collegiate status.