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St. Patrick's Episcopal Church is an Episcopal church located in the Palisades neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It is a parish of the
accessed on October 31, 2011. St. Patrick's became an independent Parish in 1946.St. Patrick's About from Website
Accessed on October 31, 2011. It was the first Protestant church in the
accessed on October 31, 2011. The first dedicated worship space was completed in 1914 at the terminus of Greenwich Parkway at Foxhall Rd. It was razed in 1935 due to street widening. A new site across Foxhall Rd. at Reservoir was completed in 1936. A larger worship space was added adjacent to the existing structure in 1954 and the 1936 building was converted into Warren Hall (in honor of the 1st Rector) to serve as parish meeting space. The site was sold to developers in 1985 when the church moved to its present location on Whitehaven Parkway between Foxhall and MacArthur (four blocks north of Foxhall and Reservoir).St. Patrick's Archives of Primary Sources
accessed October 31, 2011 The Most Rev. Frank Griswold, the 25th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, USA, led Centennial celebrations at St. Patrick's on October 30, 2011.This Week at St. Patrick's, October 26, 2011
accessed on November 3, 2011.
accessed November 7, 2011. Anderson was called to fulfill a vision that St. Patrick's be "involved in the newly emerging America that recognized and accepted its racial, national, and 'gender' minorities."Anderson remember SEES
accessed November 7, 2011. The Rev. Anderson founded St. Patrick's Southeast Enrichment Center located at 8th and I (Eye) Streets, SE to offer community services like tutoring with local schools, food, and clothing. The money for the creation of the program came from designated outreach funds of the capital campaign to renovate the church building in 1965. The center was destroyed by fire on April 5, 1968 during the riots following the
accessed on November 7, 2011. Black Coats, Inc., a carpet cleaning company, was a job creation and entrepreneurial opportunity program supported by the St. Patrick's Southeast Enrichment Center. Cleveland A. Barnes was an employee of Black Coats, and through that relationship came to serve St. Patrick's as sexton in 1974. In 1972, The Rev. Jesse F. Anderson, Jr. followed a call to serve as Vicar of St. Phillip's Episcopal Church in SE Washington, D.C. Several decades later, St. Patrick's continues to supply food for the food pantry at St. Phillip's as a result of Anderson building a bridge between the two churches.Brief Biography of Jesse F. Anderson, Jr.
accessed on November 7, 2011.
pg. 5-6 The current Rector is the Andrew Ogletree and Senior Warden is Jo Anne Nelson.Leadership from Website
accessed on November 4, 2011.
The current worship space and Parish offices of St. Patrick's were dedicated in 1985.Chair Dedication Newsletter
accessed on November 4, 2011. The building was built adjacent to the elementary classrooms of St. Patrick's Episcopal Day School. The building was designed by Hartman-Cox Architects, a DC firm. In order to match the Palisades neighborhood, the architects broke down the structure into an "abundance of small, gabled brick shapes." The cost of the Church building was $3.5 million.Hartman-Cox Portfolio
accessed on November 4, 2011. The interior furniture of the worship space was replaced in preparation for the 2011 Centennial celebrations. Most notably, the original 1985 black sanctuary chairs were replaced with natural wood chairs and the altar, and chancel chairs were refinished. The old chairs were donated to a church in
accessed on November 4, 2011. The Great Hall is a multi-purpose room that can, when needed, be used to expand the
accessed on November 3, 2011. the Rector of St. Alban's with the help of Bishop Harding wrote to Charles T. Ovendon, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland, asking if "stones could be procured from that historic temple wherewith to make a Font for little American St. Patrick's Chapel." The Dean sent four 700-year-old stones from the edifice of the Cathedral that were created into a font using funds collected from children of St. Patrick's. It was completed and dedicated in 1920 to the late Lottie Stewart Ellis (1885–1918) who was the long time Directress of the Font Roll. The total cost for the creation of the font was $125. The font fell and broke in the mid-1980s after which it was unused and stored in the entrance courtyard.Brief History of St. Patrick's Baptismal Font
accessed on November 3, 2011. In preparation for the Centennial, the font was renovated for rededication by Bishop Frank Griswold at the Centennial Eucharist on October 30, 2011. At the following Sunday's All Saints' remembrance (November 6, 2011), the font was used for four baptisms.
accessed October 31, 2011 The school is co-educational and is a member of the National Association of Episcopal Schools.NAES School Finder
accessed on October 31, 2011.
St. Patrick's Episcopal Church Homepage
{{coord, 38, 54, 58, N, 77, 5, 27.6, W, type:landmark_region:US_dim:60, display=title Saint Patrick's Episcopal Church, Washington D.C. The Palisades (Washington, D.C.)
Episcopal Diocese of Washington
The Episcopal Diocese of Washington is a diocese of the Episcopal Church covering Washington, D.C., and nearby counties of Maryland in the United States. With a membership of over 38,000, the diocese is led by the bishop of Washington, Mariann ...
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History
Founded in 1911 as the fifth and last mission chapel of St. Alban's Parish,St. Alban's History from Websiteaccessed on October 31, 2011. St. Patrick's became an independent Parish in 1946.St. Patrick's About from Website
Accessed on October 31, 2011. It was the first Protestant church in the
Western Hemisphere
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named after Saint Patrick
Saint Patrick (; or ; ) was a fifth-century Romano-British culture, Romano-British Christian missionary and Archbishop of Armagh, bishop in Gaelic Ireland, Ireland. Known as the "Apostle of Ireland", he is the primary patron saint of Irelan ...
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St. Patrick's first worship service was held on October 22, 1911 in a house at 22 Foxhall Road, NW.St. Patrick's Archive of Source Documentsaccessed on October 31, 2011. The first dedicated worship space was completed in 1914 at the terminus of Greenwich Parkway at Foxhall Rd. It was razed in 1935 due to street widening. A new site across Foxhall Rd. at Reservoir was completed in 1936. A larger worship space was added adjacent to the existing structure in 1954 and the 1936 building was converted into Warren Hall (in honor of the 1st Rector) to serve as parish meeting space. The site was sold to developers in 1985 when the church moved to its present location on Whitehaven Parkway between Foxhall and MacArthur (four blocks north of Foxhall and Reservoir).St. Patrick's Archives of Primary Sources
accessed October 31, 2011 The Most Rev. Frank Griswold, the 25th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, USA, led Centennial celebrations at St. Patrick's on October 30, 2011.This Week at St. Patrick's, October 26, 2011
accessed on November 3, 2011.
Civil rights and urban mission
St. Patrick's hired an African-American, the Rev. Jesse F. Anderson, Jr., to serve as an associate priest in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement. The Rev. Thomas D. Bowers, the fourth Rector of St. Patrick's, called him to serve the parish in 1966. When Anderson's appointment was announced at a Sunday morning worship service, approximately fifty families quit their membership, some of them walking out during the announcement. Bowers remembered that moment as a pivotal turn in the history of St. Patrick's because "new people began to pour into our church (St. Patrick's) with a different view of what church should be and our life together was changed forever."Remembrances of Thomas D. Bowers from October 2011accessed November 7, 2011. Anderson was called to fulfill a vision that St. Patrick's be "involved in the newly emerging America that recognized and accepted its racial, national, and 'gender' minorities."Anderson remember SEES
accessed November 7, 2011. The Rev. Anderson founded St. Patrick's Southeast Enrichment Center located at 8th and I (Eye) Streets, SE to offer community services like tutoring with local schools, food, and clothing. The money for the creation of the program came from designated outreach funds of the capital campaign to renovate the church building in 1965. The center was destroyed by fire on April 5, 1968 during the riots following the
assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Earlier on that same day (April 5, 1968), Ronald Reagan
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, then Governor of California, visited the Southeast Enrichment Center for about 45 minutes. After the fire, the Southeast Enrichment Center programs moved to 729 Eighth Street, SE (just three doors north).St. Patrick's Shamrock, June 1968accessed on November 7, 2011. Black Coats, Inc., a carpet cleaning company, was a job creation and entrepreneurial opportunity program supported by the St. Patrick's Southeast Enrichment Center. Cleveland A. Barnes was an employee of Black Coats, and through that relationship came to serve St. Patrick's as sexton in 1974. In 1972, The Rev. Jesse F. Anderson, Jr. followed a call to serve as Vicar of St. Phillip's Episcopal Church in SE Washington, D.C. Several decades later, St. Patrick's continues to supply food for the food pantry at St. Phillip's as a result of Anderson building a bridge between the two churches.Brief Biography of Jesse F. Anderson, Jr.
accessed on November 7, 2011.
Leadership
The Parish is led by the Vestry, an elected group of lay leaders, who elect a Rector, a member of the Episcopal clergy, to chair the Vestry, serve as the spiritual leader of the congregation, and manage the day-to-day operations of the Parish's ministries. Every year, the Parish selects leaders to serve as Senior and Junior Wardens and representatives of the Vestry at an annual meeting in early November (the meeting must be held in November prior to the 15th of the month). The Vestry is transitioning to a body of twelve lay members and the Rector for a total of at least 13 members and no more than 15. This transition is a result of bylaw amendments that passed at a vote of the Parish on September 18, 2011. The lay officers of the Vestry are Senior Warden, Junior Warden for the Church, Junior Warden for the Day School, Treasurer, and Clerk who serve one-year terms. Three vestry representatives are elected every year to serve two-year terms.St. Patrick's Parish Bylawspg. 5-6 The current Rector is the Andrew Ogletree and Senior Warden is Jo Anne Nelson.Leadership from Website
accessed on November 4, 2011.
List of rectors
# Rev. F. Ernest Warren (1946 – 1949) # Rev. John F. Stevens (1949 – 1955) # Rev. William R. Williams (1955 – 1960) # Rev. Thomas D. Bowers (1961 – 1971) # Rev. Christopher R. Sherrill (1972 – 1979) # Rev. S. James Steen (1979 – 1992) # Rev. Elizabeth S. McWhorter (1995 – 2007) # Rev. Kurt J. Gerhard (2010 – 2022) # Rev. Andrew W. Ogletree (2023 - Present)Facilities
The current worship space and Parish offices of St. Patrick's were dedicated in 1985.Chair Dedication Newsletteraccessed on November 4, 2011. The building was built adjacent to the elementary classrooms of St. Patrick's Episcopal Day School. The building was designed by Hartman-Cox Architects, a DC firm. In order to match the Palisades neighborhood, the architects broke down the structure into an "abundance of small, gabled brick shapes." The cost of the Church building was $3.5 million.Hartman-Cox Portfolio
accessed on November 4, 2011. The interior furniture of the worship space was replaced in preparation for the 2011 Centennial celebrations. Most notably, the original 1985 black sanctuary chairs were replaced with natural wood chairs and the altar, and chancel chairs were refinished. The old chairs were donated to a church in
Flint
Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone. Historically, flint was widely used to make stone tools and start ...
, Michigan
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. The new chairs were dedicated on October 16, 2011.Chair Dedication Newsletteraccessed on November 4, 2011. The Great Hall is a multi-purpose room that can, when needed, be used to expand the
seating capacity
Seating capacity is the number of people who can be seated in a specific space, in terms of both the physical space available and limitations set by law. Seating capacity can be used in the description of anything ranging from an automobile that ...
of the worship space.
Baptismal font
After St. Patrick's was founded in 1911 as the first Protestant church named after the patron saint of Ireland in the United States,St. Patrick's Archive of Primary Sourcesaccessed on November 3, 2011. the Rector of St. Alban's with the help of Bishop Harding wrote to Charles T. Ovendon, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland, asking if "stones could be procured from that historic temple wherewith to make a Font for little American St. Patrick's Chapel." The Dean sent four 700-year-old stones from the edifice of the Cathedral that were created into a font using funds collected from children of St. Patrick's. It was completed and dedicated in 1920 to the late Lottie Stewart Ellis (1885–1918) who was the long time Directress of the Font Roll. The total cost for the creation of the font was $125. The font fell and broke in the mid-1980s after which it was unused and stored in the entrance courtyard.Brief History of St. Patrick's Baptismal Font
accessed on November 3, 2011. In preparation for the Centennial, the font was renovated for rededication by Bishop Frank Griswold at the Centennial Eucharist on October 30, 2011. At the following Sunday's All Saints' remembrance (November 6, 2011), the font was used for four baptisms.
St. Patrick's Day School
St. Patrick's founded aDay School
A day school — as opposed to a boarding school — is an educational institution where children are given instruction during the day, after which the students return to their homes. A day school has full-day programs when compared to a regular s ...
in 1956 using extra space made available with the construction of new facilities. Originally a preschool and kindergarten, the Day School expanded through the elementary grades in the 1960s and through middle school in 2002.St. Patrick's Episcopal Day School Historyaccessed October 31, 2011 The school is co-educational and is a member of the National Association of Episcopal Schools.NAES School Finder
accessed on October 31, 2011.
References
External links
St. Patrick's Episcopal Church Homepage
{{coord, 38, 54, 58, N, 77, 5, 27.6, W, type:landmark_region:US_dim:60, display=title Saint Patrick's Episcopal Church, Washington D.C. The Palisades (Washington, D.C.)