St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Capitol Hill, records, 1868-2005.

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St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Capitol Hill, records, 1868-2005.

The St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Capitol Hill, collection consists of records of baptisms, confirmations, marriages and funerals; administrative records of the vestry and finances; pastoral papers and records; membership records; records of church organizations and committees; building renovations; publications; scrapbooks; and photographs. The collection consists mainly of loose papers grouped chronologically in each category with photographs in a separate category at the end.

9 cubic ft. (11 containers)

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St. Mark's Church (Washington, D.C. : Episcopal)

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St. Mark's Episcopal Church began in 1867 when Rev. Mark Olds, Rector of Christ Church on G Street, S.E., started a mission in the Belmont Sewell House on Capitol Hill at Constitution Avenue and Second Street, N.E., and then moved it to a frame chapel on Beale Terrace where the first service was held in 1868. Under the first rector, Rev. A. Floridus Steele, the parish vestry named the church St. Mark's in 1870. The wooden church was moved from its earlier location to two lots at Third and A Stre...

Episcopal Church

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In 1982, the General Convention of the Church deleted the words "Protestant" and "in the United States of America" from the official title of the Church, making it the Episcopal Church. From the description of Records of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, 1823-1975 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152635 ...