Church of St. John the Evangelist (Montreal)

St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church
St. John the Evangelist Church on President Kennedy Avenue
Location	137, avenue du Président Kennedy Montreal, Quebec H2X 3P6
Denomination	Anglican
Churchmanship	Anglo-Catholic
Website	www.redroof.ca
History
Status	active
Founded	1861
Founder(s)	Fr. Edmund Wood
Dedicated	1878
Consecrated	1905
Architecture
Architect(s)	Frank Darling, William Tutin Thomas
Architectural type	Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking	1877
Completed	1878
Administration
Deanery	Hochelaga
Diocese	Montreal
Province	Canada
Clergy
Bishop(s)	Mary Irwin-Gibson
Rector	Fr. Keith Schmidt SSC, regional dean
Assistant priest(s)	Fr Alain Brosseau
Laity
Organist/Director of music	Federico Andreoni

St. John the Evangelist is a parish of the Anglican Diocese of Montreal in the Anglican Church of Canada in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, founded by Father Edmund Wood in 1861; its church is well known in Montreal as the "Red Roof Church", which is also the headquarters of St. Michael's Mission. Its orientation is Anglo-Catholic, and it is the only Anglican locale in Montreal to practise this tradition, known as High Church. Solemn High Mass is celebrated on Sundays and feast days and Solemn Evensong and Benediction several Sundays a year. Mass is said daily, in French on Tuesdays. The parish of Saint-Benoît-de-Nursie, a French-language congregation of the Orthodox Church in America, worships in the Chapel of Our Lady of Walsingham in the church's crypt.

The church is part of the Conseil du Patrimoine religieux du Québec.^[1]

The building has starred alongside Nick Nolte in the film Affliction, and in the Quebec science-fiction television series 'Dans une galaxie près de chez vous'. The building is located in downtown Montreal, nested within Université du Québec à Montréal buildings, and Quartier des Spectacles, at 137 President Kennedy Avenue, Montreal, Quebec, H2X 3P6

Notable people[]

• Brooke Claxton, politician
• Sir Edward Clouston, banker
• Sir George Alexander Drummond, senator
• Heward Grafftey, politician
• Prudence Heward, artist
• John Hamilton, senator
• Sir William Osler, physician
• Frederick George Scott, poet and curate
• Sir Campbell Stuart, newspaper magnate
• Sir William Fenwick Williams, Crimean War general

See also[]

• List of Anglo-Catholic Churches

References[]

• "Centenary Book of the Parish of St. John the Evangelist, Montreal, 1861-1961" by St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church, Montreal, Quebec Call Number 365.2.J.03.0

External links[]

• St. John the Evangelist official site
• Quartier des Spectacles article

Coordinates: 45°30′35″N 73°34′05″W / 45.509783°N 73.567924°W / 45.509783; -73.567924