Церковь Христа, Полокване

Церковь Христа является приходом в англиканской епархии Святого Марка Евангелиста , которая попадает под англиканскую церковь Южной Африки . Это единственная англиканская церковь в Полокване (ранее, Питербург ). Церковь имеет долгую и разнообразную историю, уходящую более ста лет.

История

Питерсбург был основан в 1886 году, и к 1895 году было около 800 жителей. До 1894 года были случайные службы для английской церкви, проводимой в посещении священников в местном суде. В 1894 году Хью Бусфилд, сын Генри Бусфилда , первого епископа Претории , разыскивал около Питербурга. Подощерный, например, Ирландия, позже первого мэра Питербурга, впечатлил на Бусфилд необходимость посещения епископа. ^{[ 1 ]}

В 1895 году было снова отправлено сообщение епископу Претории, сообщив ему, что существует сильное чувство, что он должен посетить этот район и договориться о создании церкви на более постоянной основе. Епископ должным образом прибыл и согласился предоставить священнослужителя для города и округа. О. Вайнштейн прибыл вскоре после этого, и в своем первом служении 12 мая 1895 года проповедовал «Божья любовь к людям». Первая запись в «Книге Вестри» «Английской церкви в Питербурге» - это заявление счетов за период с 12 мая 1895 года по 31 марта 1896 года. ^{[ 1 ]}

Работа началась над строительством церкви на Маркет -стрит в 1895 году, и через два года работа была завершена. В 1897 году записано, что услуги также проводились в Leydsdorp , Spelonken и Nylstroom (теперь, Modimolle ). Члены собрания в противном случае должны были пройти много миль, чтобы посещать службы в Питербурге.

In the 1898 register, prayers for smallpox and drought were recorded. On several occasions no services were held because of heavy rains. During 1899 church attendance dropped as church members left town because of the threat of war. The last meeting of the church council, before the Anglo-Boer war (Boer Wars), took place on 2 August 1899. By that November only twenty British subjects were left in Pietersburg. Church records are sparse during the war, but it appears that the rector may have even been imprisoned during 1900. Church services resumed in November 1901.

After the war, accessible records from old Service Registers, Council Minutes and Vestry Minutes settle into a familiar pattern: car and building maintenance, fund-raising, church attendance and the arrival or departure of rectors.^[2]

In 1931 the site of the present church (erf. 569, corner of Devenish and Biccard Streets) was purchased complete with a house for use as the Rectory. In 1949 a building fund was started and in 1951 a definite decision was taken to build a new church on the Rectory site. The old building was showing its age, termites had got into the walls and fear was expressed that the roof would eventually become dangerous.^[1]

On 20 June 1957 the church celebrated its Diamond Jubilee. The guest preacher was Frank Clarke.

In March 1960, the Vicar General, Frederick Amoore, laid the foundation stone of the new hall and vestry. The last service held in the old building that had served this congregation for over sixty years was held on Sunday, 25 September 1960. In July, 1968 Architects were commissioned to plan the new church and on Saturday 30 November, the foundation stone of the new church was laid by J.A. Goddard, This honour was accorded him in recognition of the many years of devoted and unbroken service he had given to Christ Church since 1927. In 1969 the church and a flat for the curate were completed at a cost of R35,500. The dedication of the church by the Bishop of Pretoria took place on Sunday, 10 August 1969.^[3]

In 1995 Christ Church celebrated a hundred years of an Anglican congregation in Polokwane / Pietersburg.

Martin Breytenbach, the second bishop of the Anglican Diocese of St Mark the Evangelist resisted the call for many years to have a cathedral in the diocese. He, like his predecessor, Philip Le Feuvre, believed that the diocese was far from being established and so any talk of establishing a cathedral was premature.^[4]

In 2009 the bishop began thinking about the needs of Polokwane itself. It is rapidly transforming from a small city into a full-scale city. The open land between Polokwane and Seshego is rapidly filling up with houses. New suburbs are opening up to the north, east and south. New shopping malls are opening up and existing ones are doubling in size.

With the support of Chapter, the Trustees, Diocesan Standing Committee and Christ Church Council, the bishop moved towards proclaiming Christ Church a cathedral in 2011. A dean was appointed as well as a sub-dean. Consequently, the list of rectors was discontinued and a new list of deans and sub-deans started. Christ Church was consecrated a cathedral on 18 June 2011.

Rectors

The personal history of many of these rectors can be found on the Christ Church Cathedral website.

1895 - Andrew Weinstein
1895 - N. Grellier
1895 - H. Pughe-Jones
1900 - interregnum during the Second Anglo-Boer War
1903 - A.G. Forbes
1905 - P.M. Aldous
1907 - C.J. Clairmonte
1909 - J.H. Banks (acting - 2 months)
1909 - F. Carter
1912 - N. Roberts
1915 - W.O. Wellington
1919 - interregnum
1920 - S. Weaver
1921 - Latimer Fuller
1931 - A. Edington
1934 - F.G. Clarke (released to serve as chaplain to the Regiment Botha)
1943 - H.F.A. Treble
1946 - S.C. Culbert
1956 - H.E. Wraige
1964 - W. Lovegrove
1966 - T. Verryn
1970 - A.V. Campbell
1972 - J. Hannah (acting - 15 months)
1973 - Mark Nye, suffragan bishop
1978 - D. Narraway
1980 - interregnum
1981 - F. Hugill
1985 - A. Williams
1989 - J. Hughes
1995 - A. Smith
2003 - interregnum
2005 - D. Bertram
2008 - P. Houston (acting - 4 months)
2009 - P. Mudzvovera

Deans

2011 - 2019 - Luke Pretorius
2019 - 2021 - Dalcy Dlamini

Sub-Deans

2011-2013 - P. Mudzvovera

Notes

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Diocese of Pretoria Website: Historical Documents Archived 7 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine
^ Parish of Christ Church Registers
^ [Growing Up in Grace & Going Out in Love (1995)]
^ [Martin Breytenbach Ad Clerum: Winter (2010)]

Sources

Diocese of Pretoria Website: Historical Documents
Parish of Christ Church: Service Register (records of services and rectors)
Growing Up in Grace & Going Out in Love (1995), a publication for the 100 year celebration of the Christ Church congregation
Martin Breytenbach Ad Clerum: Winter (2010)

External links

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[dioceseofpretoria.org-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Diocese of Pretoria Website: Historical Documents Archived 7 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine

[2] Parish of Christ Church Registers

[3] [Growing Up in Grace & Going Out in Love (1995)]

[4] [Martin Breytenbach Ad Clerum: Winter (2010)]

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