About Us

Welcome from our Rector

Hi everyone and welcome to St. John’s new and improved website. We’re so thrilled to have this way of communicating with you about what goes on at St. John’s Anglican Church! Whether you are a parish member we see often, someone who has connections with us but can’t get out to church these days, someone…

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Who We Are

St. John’s is a community of faith; disciples of Jesus Christ walking in the Anglican tradition. We are a parish within the Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. Nationally we belong to the Anglican Church of Canada and internationally to the worldwide Anglican Communion. The Anglican way traces its roots to the ancient…

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Our Heritage

The Parish of St. John the Evangelist was officially created in 1820. The current stone building which replaced the original wooden church of 1825, was built in 1881 and is now the oldest continuously used house of worship in Truro. Our history is as old as the community itself. The building of the first wooden…

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