St. Peter’s and St. Andrew’s Church (Providence)

St. Peter's and St. Andrew's Episcopal Church of Providence, Rhode Island was incorporated in 1972 by the merger of St. Peter's Church of Manton (Johnston) and St. Andrew's Church of Providence . Both parishes for some time prior to the merger had been suffering from financial problems and declining membership and had been encouraged to merge by the Bishop. A formal merger agreement was signed on December 31, 1971. The newly created parish headquarters was established at St. Andrew's Church and the charter for St. Peter's was amended to form the new parish. St. Andrew's Church ceased to exist as a separate corporate entity.

Prior to the merger, both churches had long histories as separate parishes. St. Peter's Church was established as a mission church in the Manton section of Johnston in 1842. Services were held in an old schoolhouse until 1846 when the first of three churches to bear the name of St. Peter's was built on land donated by a family from the parish. The modest wooden church was replaced by a more substantial stone edifice in 1857. This structure was destroyed by fire in 1936 and another church was built on the site within a year of the fire.

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