St. Andrew's Episcopal Church (Birmingham, Alabama)

St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Birmingham, Alabama, is a parish church of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama. It was founded in 1902 as a mission of the downtown Cathedral Church of the Advent.

Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church
St. Andrews on Palm Sunday, 2002
Location1164 Eleventh Ave. S,
Birmingham, Alabama
Coordinates33°29′43.67″N 86°48′27.84″W
Built1915
NRHP reference No.86001959[1]
Added to NRHPAugust 28, 1986

The present building, completed in 1915, was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1986.[1] The brownstone edifice was designed by the local firm of Joy & Marriott, patterned after English Gothic parish churches. The first services were held on Easter Sunday, April 4, 1915.[2]

In the late 1940s the parish developed a distinctively Anglo-Catholic identity. It held its last service of Morning Prayer as the principal Sunday service in 1950, roughly at least three decades before Holy Eucharist became the most common principal Sunday service for other Episcopal churches in Birmingham.

In 2014, the Reverend Matthew Rich became priest-in-charge in discernment at St. Andrews. His ministry ended abruptly in 2017 when he was arrested on charges of child pornography.[3]

The Rev. Dr. Tommie Lee Watkins, Jr. began serving as rector of the parish on September 24, 2018. He was the first openly gay African American ordained in the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama and the first African American to serve as rector of St. Andrew's.[4]

See also
  • St. Andrew's Episcopal Church

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  2. Schnorrenberg, Barbara Brandon (1993) Things Faithfully Asked and Effectually Obtained: A History of St. Andrew's Parish, Birmingham, Alabama. Birmingham: St Andrew's Parish
  3. Robinson, Carol (2017-11-22). "Man nabbed in child porn op is priest, former AU prof". al.com. Retrieved 2020-07-11.
  4. "A New Call for Tommie Watkins '16". General Seminary. Retrieved 2020-07-11.


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