A Map of Anglo Catholic Episcopal Churches Across The United Sates
Connecticut
Christ Church ~ 84 Broadway, New Haven CT 06511
Established in 1854, Christ Church is a parish of the Episcopal Church in the worldwide Anglican Communion, located right in the urban heart of downtown New Haven adjacent to Yale University and the city's lively arts district. Christ Church was founded as a mission of the city’s first Episcopal parish, Trinity Church. The parish was created through the generosity of the three Edwards sisters, parishioners of Trinity who were strong adherents of the Oxford Movement. The early mission enabled New Haven Episcopalians to receive Holy Communion more than once a month (uncommon in the Episcopal Church at the time) and to attend Morning and Evening Prayer during the week, and by 1856 attendance at Christ Church grew to ninety-three families, with over one hundred and fifty Sunday School children. In 2009 Christ Church was the site of the inauguration of the North American province of the Society of Catholic Priests. The parish still seeks to be an example of progressive Anglo-Catholicism, eschewing the false dichotomy of worship or service and instead seeking to ground people's lives in the intentional worship of God and acts of service to the community. It has long affirmed the role of women in the church's ordained ministry, and is inclusive of all persons irrespective of race, gender, sexual orientation, social class, or any other differentiation.
Grace Church ~ 55 New Park Ave. Hartford, Ct. 06106
Grace Church is one of the oldest places of worship in Hartford. It was consecrated on the feast of Saint Martin, November 11, 1868, by the Right Reverend John Williams, fourth Bishop of the Diocese of Connecticut. The parish began in the early 1860's as a Sunday school on Baker Road (now New Park Avenue) in Parkville, under the care of Trinity Church, Sigourney Street. It was organized as Trinity Mission in 1863, and remained a chapel of Trinity Church until 1912, when it became an independent parish with the encouragement of the Reverend Ernest de Fremery Miel, then rector of Trinity.
Early in the ministry of Father Nason, Grace Church became Anglo-Catholic, with masses celebrated twice on Sunday and almost every day of the week, the Reserved Sacrament, Benediction, full observance of Lent including Stations of the Cross, and observance of saints' days and all other festival occasions.
Originally the congregation lived almost entirely in the then suburban neighborhood, and walked to church. During the last fifty years the parish's style of worship and piety has attracted attendance from the whole Hartford metropolitan area, and visitors from many distant places.
St. Andrews Church ~ 1231 Washington Boulevard, Stamford, CT 06902
Built in 1860 and consecrated on May 8, 1861, Saint Andrew's Church was originally a mission of St. John's Church Stamford until its incorporation as a parish on June 12, 1865. Saint Andrew's was the first free church in the diocese where parishioners did not have to pay a pew rental fee. Its church and parish hall are fine examples of Gothic architecture designed by Henry Hudson Holly. St. Andrew's Episcopal Church is an active Anglo-Catholic parish in the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut. Mass is celebrated on weekdays Monday through Friday according to the Anglican Missal.
Sunday services include a Low Mass followed by a Sung Mass. All services at St. Andrew's Church are celebrated in traditional language, facing eastward. Music for services comes from both The Hymnal 1982 and Lift Every Voice and Sing II: An African American Hymnal.