Saint Michael and All Angels Church, Winnipeg
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Theological Background[edit]
Saint Michael and All Angels[1] is the only High Anglican (Anglo-Catholic) Church[2] in the City of Winnipeg. The term 'High Anglican' refers to the Oxford Revival principles which started in England around 1850. This Anglo-Catholic movement stressed a return to the principles of the early church as espoused by the Tractarian movement (utilizing tracts called Tracts for the Times) that had its beginnings at Oxford University (hence the name Oxford Revival). Services include a daily Mass, daily Offices (Matins and Evensong), use of Eucharistic vestments, holy water and incense, Stations of the Cross, and Confessions. Pastoral care is one of the movement's more notable attributes. The parish's priest-in-charge or Rector is addressed as Father.
The Parish is one of the early Anglo-Catholic parishes spread across Canada beginning with St. Peter's Cathedral in Charlottetown, Church of St. John the Evangelist in Montreal, St. Mary Magdalene and St. Thomas' Anglican Church in Toronto, St. Stephen the Martyr's Church in Edmonton and St. James' Church Vancouver.
Parish History[edit]
The parish is a daughter parish of All Saint's Anglican Church located on Broadway at Osborne Street in Winnipeg. The churchmanship at All Saints was neither evangelical or catholic but a blend of both which continues today. Commencing November 13, 1904, those parishioners holding Anglo-Catholic views were encouraged to support the Mission of Saint Michael and All Angels in Winnipeg's Fort Rouge area. The mission was located on the south side of Mulvey Street at Hugo Street North. It reputed that the then Archbishop of Rupert's Land thought that the mission would fail. The Mission was raised to a Parish in 1910 by the Most Rev'd Samuel Pritchard Matheson, Lord Archbishop of Rupert's Land, Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land and Primate of All Canada (now called 'Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada').
Parish Church[edit]
The architect, Henry William Greene, designed the present church[3] in the Romanesque (Norman) style which utilizes the early Christian basilica style with a nave with barrel-vaulted ceiling and clerestory windows, two aisles and an apse east end. The building is unique amongst Anglican churches within the Diocese of Rupert's Land and Western Canada as it is the only one built in the early Christian basilica style.
North of the sanctuary and choir (chancel) is a small chapel for daily masses which is dedicated to Our Lady of Walsingham - England's Nazareth. The Lady Chapel altar is from the original Mission church. The former Mission church was moved from the south side to the north side of Mulvey Street to become the Parish Hall. The church interior wasn't finished west of the nave's second arch. With arrival of Father Turney SSJE, the interior (the remaining three arches) was completed. The marble altar is self-standing and, now the wooden reredos has been removed, can be used for eastward and westward celebrations. Its altar stone is from Pershore Abbey in England.
The church was constructed by Claydon Company[4]. The foundation stone laid June 17, 1920 on property purchased on the north side of Mulvey Street. It wasn't consecrated until October 13, 1947 by the Most Rev'd Ralph Sherman, Lord Archbishop of Rupert's Land and Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land.
A fire in 1957 destroyed the roof of the Parish Hall (former Mission church building) which was repaired. On August 1, 1970, an arsonist started a fire in the choir vestry which caused extensive smoke damage, gutted that vestry and destroyed the church's electronic organ.
The building was repaired and refurbished based on a plan designed by Etienne-Joseph Gaboury, an architect from Saint-Boniface. It called for a basement instead of the current Parish Hall and a new sacristry and offices/rectory instead of Father Turney's 'Priest's Place'. Due to lack of funding, only the refurbishimg of the Church occurred and that occurred during Father Gibbons' tenure as Rector.
On Michaelmass (September 29) 1971, the then Bishop of Rupert's Land, the Rt. Rev'd Barry Valentine, reopened the Church during a Pontifical Solemn Mass with the Men and Boys of St. George's Anglican Church in attendance.
Other renovations occurred during Father Klassen's 34 year tenure as Rector; namely, the Sacristy, Parish Hall and kitchen, new pews and carpeting covering the original wood flooring in the Church.
Historical Designation[edit]
The church building was designated a municipally-designated historical site by the City of Winnipeg Historical Building s Committee in September 1989.
Rectors (and Priests-in-charge)[edit]
The Rev'd Father Frank Smith (Rector of All Saint's Church) (1904-1906)
The Rev'd Father J. B. Haslem (priest-in-charge) (1907)
The Rev'd Father G. H. Broughall (1907-1921) priest-in-charge and then Rector from when the Parish was erected in 1910
The Rev'd Father Humphrey Scott Ram (1921-1926)
The Rev'd Father Harold Flitcroft Hutton (1926-1928)
The Rev'd Father R.H. Thomas (1928 to 1930)
The Rev'd Father William C. Turney, S.S.J.E. (priest-in-charge 1930-1961)
The Rev'd Canon (Father) Jack Graydon Gibbons (1962-1972)
The Rev'd Canon (Father) Harold Leopold Hertzler (1973-1975)
The Rev'd Canon (Father) Arthur Michael Lloyd Klassen (1977-2012)
The Rev'd Father Kevin Frankland (2014-present)
Outreach[edit]
Convalescent Home of Winnipeg
Sisters of the Society of Saint Margaret in Haiti
In earlier days, the Parish allowed the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia to worship in its Parish Hall. The Parish Hall sanctuary used by the Orthodox is now the current sacristy. The Parish had a long standing relationship with Saint Mary's Parish of Polish National Catholic Church in Winnipeg.
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References[edit]
- ↑ "Winnipeg, St Michael and All Angels - MAIN – Manitoba Archival Information Network". main.lib.umanitoba.ca. Retrieved 2017-04-07.
- ↑ "Welcome". www.stmichaelswinnipeg.ca. Retrieved 2017-04-07.
- ↑ Goldsborough, Gordon. "Historic Sites of Manitoba: St. Michael and All Angels Anglican Church (300 Hugo Street North, Winnipeg)". www.mhs.mb.ca. Retrieved 2017-04-07.
- ↑ "300 Hugo Street North St. Michael and All the Angels Anglican Church" (PDF). City of Winnipeg. September 1989. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
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