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Rev Bruin Romkes Comingo, 1st Presbyterian Minister in Canada, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church (Lunenburg)

Bruin Romkes Comingo ("Mr. Brown") was the first Presbyterian minister ordained in Canada.^[1] He arrived in Halifax as a Foreign Protestants during Governor Edward Cornwallis' tenure. He was ordained by Rev. John Seccombe.^[2] He served at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church (Lunenburg), Nova Scotia. (His ordination was preceded by the irregular ordination of John Frost (minister) in Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia.)^[3]

References

^ "Biography – COMINGO, BRUIN ROMKES – Volume V (1801-1820) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography". www.biographi.ca.
^ Stiles, Ezra; Dexter, Franklin Bowditch (January 28, 1901). "The literary diary of Ezra Stiles. Edited under the authority of the corporation of Yale University by Franklin Bowditch Dexter". New York C. Scribner's Sons – via Internet Archive.
^ "Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society". Halifax. 1878 – via Internet Archive.

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A sermon preached at Halifax, July 3, 1770, at the Ordination of the Rev. Bruin Romeas Comingoe. To the Dutch Calvanistic Presbyterian Congregation at Lunenburg ... Being the first preached in the Province of Nova Scotia, on such an occasion. To which is added an Appendix.

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