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Bruin Romkes Comingo

Bruin Romkes Comingo

Canadian presbyterian minister


Bruin Romkes Comingo ("Mr. Brown") was the first Presbyterian minister ordained in Canada.[1] He arrived in Halifax as a Foreign Protestants during Governor Edward Cornwallis' tenure. He was ordained by Rev. John Seccombe.[2] He served at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church (Lunenburg), Nova Scotia. (His ordination was preceded by the irregular ordination of John Frost (minister) in Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia.)[3]


Rev Bruin Romkes Comingo, 1st Presbyterian Minister in Canada, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church (Lunenburg)

References

  1. "Biography – COMINGO, BRUIN ROMKES – Volume V (1801-1820) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography". www.biographi.ca.
  2. Stiles, Ezra; Dexter, Franklin Bowditch (January 28, 1901). "The literary diary of Ezra Stiles. Edited under the authority of the corporation of Yale University by Franklin Bowditch Dexter". New York C. Scribner's Sons via Internet Archive.
  3. "Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society". Halifax. 1878 via Internet Archive.



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