The Diocese of Florida, St. John’s Tallahassee, Celebrate...
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Celebrate Our Future Cherish Our Past 1838-2013 The Diocese of Florida, St. John’s Tallahassee, and Goodwood St. John’s is the mother church of the Diocese of Florida. It was founded as a mission parish in 1829. The Diocese was organized at St. John’s in 1838 and Francis Huger Rutledge, who became rector of St. John’s in 1845, was consecrated the first Bishop of Florida in 1851. The original church burned in 1879; a new church was built on the same site and consecrated in 1888, and it is still the parish’s principal place of worship. The original owner of Goodwood, Hardy Croom, was a member of St. John’s. He had moved to Tallahassee alone and set about building a grand place for his wife and three children on his inherited plantation. But the Croom family never saw the nearly completed house that was the product of all of Hardy’s labor. The entire family perished off the coast of North Carolina in a tropical storm enroute to Florida on October 9, 1837. An obelisk in the front of St. John’s church memorializes the Croom family.
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Celebrate Our FutureCherish Our Past
1838-2013
The Diocese of Florida, St. John’s Tallahassee,
and Goodwood
St. John’s is the mother church of the Diocese of Florida. It was founded as a mission parish in 1829. The Diocese was organized at St. John’s in 1838 and Francis Huger Rutledge, who became rector of St. John’s in 1845, was consecrated the first Bishop of Florida in 1851. The original church burned in 1879; a new church was built on the same site and consecrated in 1888, and it is still the parish’s principal place of worship.
The original owner of Goodwood, Hardy Croom, was a member of St. John’s. He had moved to Tallahassee alone and set about building a grand place for his wife and three children on his inherited plantation. But the Croom family never saw the nearly completed house that was the product of all of Hardy’s labor. The entire family perished off the coast of North Carolina in a tropical storm enroute to Florida on October 9, 1837. An obelisk in the front of St. John’s church memorializes the Croom family.
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The Right Reverend and Mrs. Samuel Johnson Howardcordially invite you
to attend a celebration marking
the 175th Anniversary of the Episcopal Diocese of Florida
Thursday, January 24, 2013
at Goodwood Museum and Gardens1600 Miccosukee Road, Tallahassee, Florida
Gathering at the Main House6:00 pm
followed by Dinner and Dancing at the Carriage House
7:00 pm
Ms. Virginia B. Barker The Reverend Martin W. and The Reverend Canon Penny L. Pfab
The Right Reverend and Mrs. Frank Cerveny Mr. and Mrs. Palmer Proctor
The Reverend Canon and Mrs. James M. Dorn, III Ms. Janet Robinson
The Reverend Canon and Mrs. Anthony D. Ferguson Mr. and Mrs. James Salter
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Johnson Mrs. Robert S. Snell
The Reverend and Mrs. David Killeen Mr. and Mrs. G. Michael Strock
The Reverend Canon Dr. and Mrs. Robert V. Lee III Ms. Paula Suhey
The Reverend C. Louanne and Dr. Eric E. Loch The Reverend and Mrs. Laughton D. Thomas
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Melnyk Mr. and Mrs. Henning Toensmann
The Reverend Canon Ted and The Reverend Teri A. Monica Mr. and Mrs. Douglas A. Walker
The Very Reverend Katherine B. and Mr. James D. Moorehead Ms. Linda Wilcox
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Petway, III The Reverend Canon and Mrs. Donald Woodrum
