Episcopal Churches in Louisiana - Christ Church Cathedral, New Orleans, All Saints Episcopal Church (Dequincy, Louisiana) (Paperback)

Chapters: Christ Church Cathedral, New Orleans, All Saints Episcopal Church (Dequincy, Louisiana), St. Stephen's Episcopal Church (Innis, Louisiana), Church of the Good Shepherd (Lake Charles, Louisiana), St. Andrew's Episcopal Church (Clinton, Louisiana), Episcopal Diocese of Western Louisiana, Grace Episcopal Church (St. Francisville, Louisiana), Church of the Incarnation (Amite, Louisiana). Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Christ Church Cathedral, located today at 2919 St. Charles Avenue, in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States, was the first non-Roman Catholic church founded in the entire Louisiana Purchase territory. It was founded in 1803 as Christ's Church by the Protestant inhabitants of New Orleans, and is today the official seat of the Bishop of Louisiana, in the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana. In June 1803, 53 Protestants responded to an appeal to form a Protestant congregation in the predominantly Roman Catholic City of New Orleans. After a preliminary meeting, the choice of denomination was put up to a vote. The ballot results were: Episcopal, 45 votes; Presbyterian, 7 votes; Methodist, 1 vote. With the result of the vote, the Episcopal congregation of Christ's Church was founded. Soon after, a call was sent to various colleges and churches in the east for recommendations for a suitable clergyman. On November 16, 1805, Philander Chase, a young minister from Poughkeepsie arrived with a letter of introduction from Bishop Benjamin Moore of New York. The founders approved of young Chase and at eleven o'clock in the morning of the following day, Philander Chase preached his first sermon at The Cabildo on the Place d'Armes. Services were held in various public buildings until 1816 when the first Christ church was erected at the r...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=169630