St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church (Lunenburg)

Rev Bruin Romcas Comisco, 1st Presbyterian Minister in Canada, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church

St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church is a church in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. The congregation is the longest history of any Presbyterian congregation in Canada.^[1][2] After meeting at a private house, the congregation worshipped in St. John's Anglican Church (Lunenburg) (1759-1770). The first church was built in 1720 and the first minister was Reverend Bruin Romkes Comingo, who served the community for 50 years until he died at age 95 (1820).^[3] The current church was built in the neo-gothic style and dates from 1828.^[4]

See also

• Presbyterian Church in Canada
• Little Dutch (Deutsch) Church
• St. John's Anglican Church (Lunenburg)
• Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church (Lunenburg)

Links

• A sermon preached at Halifax, July 3d, 1770, at the ordination of the Rev. Bruin Romcas Camingoe to the Dutch Calvinistic Presbyterian Congregation at Lunenburg: by John Seccombe, of Chester, A. M., being the first preached in the province of Nova-Scotia, on such an occasion ; to which is added an appendix

References

1. Canada's Historic Places
2. http://www.explorelunenburg.ca/st-andrews-presbyterian-church.html
3. Canadian Biography
4. Canada's Historic Places