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St. Mark's Anglican Church (Port Hope, Ontario)
St. Mark's Anglican Church is a historic Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican church in Port Hope, Ontario, Port Hope, Ontario, Canada. The Carpenter Gothic church building dates from the 1820s and was the original home of St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church, now located in a larger stone building on Pine Street. The congregation dedicated to St. Mark was established in 1873. The churchyard is the resting place of Vincent Massey, the first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada. History In 1822, Elias Smith, founder of Port Hope, Ontario, Port Hope, gave land for the construction of St. John the Evangelist Church on what was then known as Protestant Hill. The wood-frame church was completed in 1824 and consecrated in 1828. The bell, cast in Albany, New York, was installed in 1826. The church was extended and galleries were added in 1842. A second expansion by architect Kivas Tully in 1845 added north and south transepts. By 1865, St. John the Evangelist Church had outgrown ... [...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] |
