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Article: faith & values; A time of sadness as aging St. Thomas Episcopal closes.(SOURCE)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- May 31, 2008
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Byline: JEFF STRICKLER; STAFF WRITER
A chapter of Minneapolis church history closed this week, a story soon to be repeated in St. Paul.
St. Thomas Episcopal Church, 4400 4th Av. S., one of the first black Episcopal churches in the state, held a deconsecration service Tuesday evening. A similar fate awaits St. Philip's Episcopal Church in St. Paul, another one of the state's first primarily black churches, which will close by the end of June.
The two congregations, both of which date to the early 1900s, are forming a new church, the location and name of which is still to be determined. And while the birth of the new church is considered a bright spot for many of ...
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