St. John's Parish, Stamford, Connecticut (Still Image)

St. John's Parish, Stamford, Connecticut

St. John's Episcopal Church (Stamford, Conn.)

123 p. : ill., [8] leaves of plates 19 cm

According to the Preface to this volume, "the Rectory and Vestry desire that there be issued occasionally a manual like this for the information of all the members of the parish, regarding its organization, the work done in the past year, and the ways of helping the work still to be done." This volume is somewhat unusual in terms of the other church manuals in WCSU's collection in that it comntains much more information about the current (in 1898) orgabization and operations of the parish than do many of the others.

One hundred years after the establishment of Stamford, a group of residents petitioned the Town for a grant of land for an Anglican Church. There had been Anglicans in Stamford as early as 1705, but they had no church building and no settled clergy. In 1742 the Town gave the Anglicans a lot near the corner of present-day Main and Grove Streets where the first St. John’s Church was built. For a more deatailed history of the church, see:

http://www.stjohns-stamford.org/history/

St. John's Episcopal Church (Stamford, Conn.) -- Handbooks, manuals, etc

Episcopalians -- Connecticut -- Stamford

Episcopal Church -- Connecticut -- Stamford -- History

Stamford (Conn.) -- Church history

b30772497

F104.S8 S25 1898

[Stamford, Conn. : The Church], 1898

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