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Moving Forward in Truth: Just Our Church

St. Luke the Evangelist Episcopal Church was the third African American Episcopal Church to reach mission status in the Diocese of Texas and the first in the city of Houston. In 1899, the Committee on New Parishes of the Diocese of Texas received an application from “the congregation (Negro) of the Mission of Our Saviour, located in Houston, Harris county, for admission,” but it never made it to mission status.

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