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St. George's Memorial Church (Oshawa)
St. George's Memorial Church is an Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican church in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. History St. George in Oshawa was founded in 1843 as a mission of St. John's, Whitby, Ontario, Whitby, and St. Paul's, Columbus, Ontario, Columbus. Services were held in the town hall and court house. They built their first permanent church building, a wood-frame structure at the northeast corner of King Street and Park Road, around 1847. The first incumbent was the Rev. John Pentland. It became an independent parish in 1859. The second church building was constructed in 1858 at the southeast corner of Centre Street and John Street, today Memorial Park. It was also a wood-frame structure and featured a steeple. The church was enlarged in 1881 and consecrated on October 9, 1881, by Arthur Sweatman, Bishop of Toronto. A cairn marking the spot of the old church was unveiled by members of the parish on St. George's Day 1939. In 1864, the parish acquired the land on Park Road Nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglican Church Of Canada
The Anglican Church of Canada (ACC or ACoC) is the Ecclesiastical province#Anglican Communion, province of the Anglican Communion in Canada. The official French-language name is ''l'Église anglicane du Canada''. In 2016, the Anglican Church of Canada responded to a peer-reviewed study in the ''Journal of Anglican Studies'' published by Cambridge University Press reporting that the church has 1,447,080 total baptized members. In 2022, the Anglican Church counted 294,931 active members on parish rolls in 1,978 congregations, organized into 1,498 parishes. The 2021 Canadian census counted 1,134,315 self-identified Anglicans (3.1 percent of the total Canadian population), making the Anglican Church the third-largest Canadian church after the Catholic Church in Canada, Catholic Church and the United Church of Canada. Like other Anglican churches, the Anglican Church of Canada's liturgy utilizes a native version of the ''Book of Common Prayer'', the Book of Common Prayer (1962), 1962 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
