St. Paul's Church (Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn)

St. Paul's Church, Carroll Gardens is a parish of the Episcopal Church in the Anglo-Catholic tradition. It is part of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island and the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, part of the world-wide Anglican Communion. The church is located on the corner of Clinton and Carroll Streets. in the Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn neighborhood of New York City.

History

St. Paul's was founded on Christmas Day of 1849, in South Brooklyn, then the quickly developing southward expansion of old Brooklyn Heights. New homes and businesses were covering old countryside, farmland, and shoreline; industrialization was bringing a new way of life to the City of Brooklyn, waves of immigrants from the nations of the world were arriving and the American Civil War was looming. This was also the era when the Anglican Communion of Churches was experiencing a renewed vision of their catholic faith and order often called the "Anglo-Catholic Revival" of the Oxford Movement. Saint Paul's was formed in heady days of philosophical, social, economic, and religious change.

The church building has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1991.

See also

• Anglo-Catholic
• High Church
• Oxford Movement
• Anglicanism

References

External links

• St. Paul's Website
• Diocese of Long Island
• Episcopal Church, USA
• Anglican Communion
• The Archbishop of Canterbury