Bruin Romkes Comingo
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Rev Bruin Romkes Comingo, 1st Presbyterian Minister in Canada, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church (Lunenburg)
Bruin Romkes Comingo ("Mr. Brown") was the first Presbyterian minister ordained in Canada.[1] He arrived in Halifax as a Foreign Protestants during Governor Edward Cornwallis' tenure. He was ordained by Rev. John Seccombe.[2] He served at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church (Lunenburg), Nova Scotia. (His ordination was preceded by the irregular ordination of John Frost (minister) in Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia.)[3]
References[]
- ^ "Biography – COMINGO, BRUIN ROMKES – Volume V (1801-1820) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography". www.biographi.ca.
- ^ Stiles, Ezra; Dexter, Franklin Bowditch (January 28, 1901). "The literary diary of Ezra Stiles. Edited under the authority of the corporation of Yale University by Franklin Bowditch Dexter". New York C. Scribner's Sons – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society". Halifax – via Internet Archive.
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- History of Nova Scotia
- Canadian Christian clergy stubs