St. John's, York Mills
St. John's, York Mills, is a historic Anglican Anglicanism, also known as Episcopalianism in some countries, is a Western Christianity, Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the ... church in the York Mills neighborhood of the North York district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1816, it is the second oldest Anglican church in Toronto. The present Gothic Revival architecture, Gothic Revival church building dates from 1843 and was designed by architect John George Howard. History Services for what became the congregation of St. John's, York Mills, began in the Bedford Park, Toronto, Bedford Park home of Seneca Ketchum (1772–1850). The area was served by army chaplains and visiting clergy. The first permanent clergyman in York was the Rev. George Okill Stuart. After Stuart's departure, the Rev. John Strachan, Dr. John Strachan, Rector of Cathedral Church of ...
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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 ...
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