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Traveling by stagecoach and horseback,
the Rt. Rev. Jackson Kemper, Missionary Bishop of Indiana, celebrated
the first Episcopal service in Richmond in February of 1837, in the
upper floor of what was the Warner Building (site of Richmond's current
city building). Bishop Kemper returned in July of that year
with the Reverend George Fisk who he appointed as Rector.
Within a year of Bishop Kemper’s first visit, “St. Paul’s
Episcopal Church” was officially organized in 1838 with a vestry, clerk
and treasurer. We were established in the same year as the
Diocese of Indianapolis and became its seventh parish (the tenth in the
State of Indiana).
Today, St. Paul's is an active community of caring Christians drawing
closer to God and each other. We are a vital part of the
Episcopal Diocese of Indiana, The Episcopal Church in the USA and the
world-wide Anglican Communion.
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