St. Augustine's of Canterbury, Wiesbaden

The English Church ( officially: Church of St. Augustine of Canterbury, Wiesbaden, Germany ) is a neo-Gothic church building on the corner of Frankfurter Straße and Small Wilhelmstrasse in Wiesbaden, which was built in 1863 to designs by the Wiesbaden Oberbaurat Theodor Goetz for the British spa guests of the then world spa. The red brick building is right next to the Villa Clementine and located so close to the park Warmer Damm and the ' Wilhelmstrasse.

History

Established to meet the spiritual needs of the British Kurbevölkerung Wiesbaden, the service operating in the church during World War II has been discontinued. During the period of National Socialism, the property, which was the community provided by the Kurhaus Aktiengesellschaft available in 1863, was expropriated by the state. After the Second World War, the building of the U.S. military occupation served as a chapel until the U.S. military opened in 1955 a new chapel in the American residential Heinersberg. The plot was the Bishop of London is about to henceforth serve as Anglican church. Since many of the parishioners, however, still came from the U.S. military, the formerly British migration church was increasingly a hybrid of the Church of England and the Episcopal Church in the United States. So they used from this point on the U.S. Book of Common Prayer, and the vocation of the priest was also carried out on the jurisdiction of the Convocation of American Churches in Europe.

The building was ravaged by a devastating fire in January 1966, which was caused by a failure of the heating system; with the sum insured and donations from the community, the church was restored. The delivered organ, which was not yet installed, but was not covered by the insurance.

1980, with the founding of the Diocese of Gibraltar in Europe, which was responsible for the formerly the Bishop of London imputed Church of England churches on the European continent, the Bishop of Gibraltar has left his episcopal jurisdiction formally his U.S. colleagues in Paris, as long as the U.S. church wanted to continue to pay for the operating costs.

2003 convened the community its first female priests, Rev. Martha Hubbard, formerly in St. Mark's Parish in Penn Yan (New York) worked in the Diocese of Rochester.

The church today

As an immigrant church with a varied tradition of the national composition of the community is quite diverse today. Thus, 37% of the parishioners American, 26 % British, 20 % German and 17% have other or more than one nationality, including the Canadian, Australian, South African, Italian and Nigerian nationality. The Church Board consists of four British subjects, three German nationals and five U.S. citizens.

In addition to the Sunday worship celebrations (usually Eucharist ) are in the community three home groups active.

End of the use by the Convocation of American Churches in Europe

On January 24, 2014, the Convocation of American Churches in Europe announced that the church was back handed over to the Bishop of London, and that the Episkopalgemeinde was looking for new premises and in negotiations with the Old Catholic community in Wiesbaden. As a reason, the dilapidation of the building is called, which is doubted by church members, however.