St. Luke's Church, Kensington

St. Luke's Church, Kensington, was an Episcopal congregation in Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The parish was founded in 1904 as an outgrowth of the Episcopal Hospital Mission. Its 1904 building, designed by Furness & Evans and located at the northeast corner of East Huntington and B Streets at Kensington Avenue. The parish closed in 1987. St. Luke's Church, Kensington, is an among the few surviving reminders of the mid to late 19th century English immigrant experience and community in Kensington and Philadelphia. Movement has been made to celebrate the colonial experience (i.e. Penn Treaty Park) and preserve the 19th century "new immigrant" experience (i.e. St. Laurentius Church, in Fishtown) in the greater Kensington area. Scholars often refer to this immigrant group as hidden and forgotten.^[1] These immigrants, to outsiders, blended in and disappeared. However, as the property demonstrates, mid to late 19th century English immigrants, far from being hidden, built unique neighborhoods, cultural institutions, and worship sties.

Leadership

Rectors

In the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, the rector is the priest elected to head a self-supporting parish.

• Rev. Joseph Manuel (1904-1914)^[1]
• Rev. Samuel Babcock Booth (1914-1919)^[2]
• Rev. Perry Austin (1919-1923)^[3]
• Rev. William J. Hawthrone (1923-1936)^[4]
• Rev. David C. Colony (1937-1942)^[5]
• Rev. Gideon C. Montgomery (1943-1947)^[6]
• Rev. William H. Jeffreys (1949-1951)^[7]
• Rev. John Waterloo Treleaven (1952-1958)^[8]
• Rev. H. Robert Lorenz (1958-1969)^[9]
• Rev. Theodore H. Henderson (1970-1977)^[10]
• Rev. E. Clifford Cutler (1978-1985)^[11]
• Rev. Carl Metzger (1986-1987)

References

External links

• Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Booklet of St. Luke's Church, Kensington (1979)
• Parish Handbook of St. Luke's Church, Kensington (1979)
• Yearbook of St. Luke's Church, Kensington (1945)
• Parish Profile of St. Luke's Church, Kensington (1985)