Installation (clergy).
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works dealing with the installation of a clergyman as the pastor of a church. Works dealing with the ordination of a clergyman (i.e. his first entrance into the clerical office) are entered under the heading [Ordination.] Whenever ordination and installation are simultaneous, preference is given to the heading [Ordination.]
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Hopkinton, Mass. First Congregational Church records, 1722-1911.
Collection
Identifier: RG5193
Abstract
The First Congregational Church in Hopkinton was organized in 1724, shortly after the establishment of the town of Hopkinton by Harvard College, who had purchased the land from a local community of "praying Indians". Five versions of the meeting house have existed, two of which were destroyed, first by fire in 1882 and then by a hurricane in 1939. In September 2011 the name of the church was officially changed to Faith Community Church. This collection includes the earliest records of the...
Dates:
1722-1911