St. Bartholomew's Anglican Church, Anglican church in Regent Park, Toronto, Canada
St. Bartholomew's Anglican Church stands at the corner of Dundas Street East and Regent Street in Regent Park, Toronto. The parish worships in the 1959 Canadian revision of the Book of Common Prayer with additions from the Plainchant Gradual, English Gradual, Anglican Missal and Monastic Diurnal Noted. The building was moved to this site in 1910.
St Bartholomew's Episcopal Mission Church was founded in 1873 as a mission of All Saints, Sherbourne Street, with Walter Reginald Strickland as architect. In 1910 the church was moved from the end of Beech Street to Dundas and Regent streets to clear the way for the Dundas Street bridge, pulled west by a team of horses. Charles Fredrick Pashler became its first Anglo-Catholic rector and introduced daily Mass despite opposition from the nearby Jarvis Street Baptist Church.
The parish is Anglo-Catholic, using the 1959 Canadian revision of the Book of Common Prayer with additions from the Plainchant Gradual, the English Gradual, the Anglican Missal and the Monastic Diurnal Noted. Charles Fredrick Pashler, rector after the First World War, introduced weekly and then daily Mass, Eucharistic vestments, altar candles and incense despite opposition from the nearby Jarvis Street Baptist Church. The street beside the clergy house is now Pashler Avenue.
The location is easy to find at the main intersection of Dundas and Regent in the downtown core. Visitors should check ahead about service times, as these vary throughout the week.
In June 1986 Mother Teresa of Calcutta visited the rectory and toured Regent Park with rector Robert Greene, a former tank gunner of the Italian Campaign who also ran a food bank from the rectory basement and visited the Don Jail.
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