- Church of St. John the Evangelist (Montreal)
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St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church 
St. John the Evangelist Church on President Kennedy AvenueLocation Montreal, Quebec Country Canada Denomination Anglican Churchmanship Anglo-Catholic Website www.redroof.ca History Founded 1861 Founder(s) Fr. Edmund Wood Dedicated 1878 Consecrated 1905 Architecture Status active Architect(s) William Thomas (architect)William Tutin Thomas Architectural type Gothic Revival Style Slum Gothic Groundbreaking 1877 Completed 1878 Administration Diocese Montreal Province Canada Clergy Bishop(s) Barry Bryan Clarke Rector Fr. Keith Schmidt SSC Laity Organist/Director of music Federico Andreoni (Interim) St. John the Evangelist is a parish of the Anglican Diocese of Montreal in the Anglican Church of 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 Orthodox Church in America French-speaking parish of Saint Benedict of Nursia (French: Saint Benoît de Nursie) worships in the basement of the church.
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
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External links
- St. John the Evangelist official site
- Quartier des Spectacles article
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Worship and Liturgy Other Coordinates: 45°30′35″N 73°34′05″W / 45.509783°N 73.567924°W
Categories:- Montreal stubs
- Churches in Montreal
- Anglican churches in Quebec
- Landmarks in Montreal
- Gothic Revival architecture in Montreal
- Anglo-Catholicism
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