Английская Википедия:Christ Church (St. Simons, Georgia)
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Christ Church is an Episcopal church in St. Simons, Georgia. Beginning as a mission in 1736, the parish would be one of the first to form the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia in 1823, along with Christ Church in Savannah, Georgia and Saint Paul's Church in Augusta, Georgia. The current building was built in 1884 and is adjacent to Fort Frederica National Monument.
History
On February 15, 1736, James Oglethorpe, founder of the Province of Georgia, established the town and fort of Frederica on St. Simons Island.Шаблон:Sfn Accompanying him was Reverend Charles Wesley, a priest within the Church of England who served as Oglethorpe's chaplain and was the brother of John Wesley, then-priest of Christ Church in Savannah, Georgia.Шаблон:Sfn Charles would hold religious service in a tabby structure on the island, serving in this missionary capacity until July of that year.Шаблон:Sfn Following Wesley's departure, other clergymen from the United Society Partners in the Gospel served on the island through the 1700s.Шаблон:Sfn In 1808, the state government incorporated the parish, which had been officially organized a year prior.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn William Best served as the first rector for this newly incorporated parish.Шаблон:Sfn In 1810, Edmund Matthews became the rector for the parish, a position he would hold until 1827. His tenure saw the construction of the first permanent church building on the island in 1820 and the creation of the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia in 1823. Christ Church Frederica was joined with Christ Church Savannah and Saint Paul's Church in Augusta, Georgia.Шаблон:Sfn In 1831, the church hosted its first convention for the diocese, and five years later, the church celebrated the centennial of the island's first religious service.Шаблон:Sfn
In 1840, parishioners discovered a beehive in the church's steeple. Collecting and selling honey from this hive, the churchgoers raised money for necessary repairs to the church building.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn In 1862, this building would be destroyed as a result of the American Civil War.Шаблон:Sfn[1] Following this, lay preachers and occasional visiting clergy held services until 1879, when Anson Greene Phelps Dodge Jr. reorganized the parish.Шаблон:Sfn In 1884, Dodge had the church rebuilt on the site of the previous building as a memorial to his wife, who had been buried on the church grounds.[1]Шаблон:Sfn This structure still stands as the church's current place of worship. In 1886, Dodge established St. Ignatius as an outreach for freed slaves on the island.Шаблон:Sfn Dodge died in 1898, leaving an endowment for the diocese that funded much of the diocese's missionary work at that time.Шаблон:Sfn Anna Alexander served as deaconess of St. Ignatius, in doing so becoming the first black deaconess in the Episcopal Church.Шаблон:Sfn In 1998, she was named a saint by the diocese and in 2018 was added to the Episcopal Church's calendar of saints.Шаблон:Sfn
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