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a healthy church...transformingLIFE |
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Since settlement the Anglican Church in Glenorchy has seen many changes: to parish boundaries; to mergers and subdivisions; to building and demolishing; and to disposal of property. Our history began at St John's, New Town, from which we separated as a daughter church. In turn we later spread to include St Mary's Moonah, St Andrew's Central Glenorchy, Merton Vale Church, St Barnabas's Glen Lusk, St Alban's Claremont, St Martin's Chigwell, St George's Old Beach, St Martin's Dromedary, St Mary's Bridgewater, and Sth Bridgewater Chapel (Granton) What an amazing story it has all become and we recommend to you our two books of parish history which explain what has happened to all these buildings. Today there are three parishes in the municipality with St Paul's church being at the centre, and Moonah and Claremont being southern and northern neighbours. There have been twenty priests serving God at St Paul's throughout its history. Since 1846 there has been a centre of worship on the St Paul's site, for it was in that year the Revd John Yarker purchased from Gamaliel Butler for £24 the land on which St Paul's church stands. A small chapel cum schoolhouse was built and named St Mary Magdalene Chapel. John Yarker served for two years as the first priest for the Glenorchy parish and the small chapel was used up to 1869 and then demolished to make way for the building of the nave of the present St Paul's building. Inevitably when we speak of the history of St Paul's we speak of land and buildings and dates and expenditure. The real history however, is written in the lives of the people and in their faith in the living Christ. We hope that from these web pages you will catch something of our vision for taking to the people of this age the good news about Jesus Christ. |
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