Father John Comper This is Me

 Web References

1. 1. NEWS.scotsman.com - Scotland - Aberdeen - Episcopalian cleric honoured

   news.scotsman.com/aberdeen.cfm - [Cached]

   Published on: 4/12/2003   Last Visited: 4/12/2003

   Father John Comper is to be declared a "Hero of the Faith" by the Scottish Episcopal Church - the greatest honour the Church can bestow.
   
   The Scottish Episcopal Church has not created a saint since the Reformation in the 16th century, but heroes of the faith are awarded their own special day in the Church's calendar.
   
   The members of the Aberdeen synod have already unanimously approved the move to bestow the accolade on Father Comper, and the honour is expected to be confirmed by the Church's general synod in June.
   
   Father Comper, who died in 1903 at the age of 80, spent over 40 years working with the poor and destitute in Aberdeen's East End slums.
   
   An Englishman, he first arrived in the north-east of Scotland to work as a school-teacher, but turned his back on a career in education to be ordained into the ministry.
   
   After serving as a rector for Episcopalian parishes in Inverness and Nairn, he left his post as vicar at the prosperous St John's Church in Aberdeen to devote his life to missionary work among the poor of the city, living in the slums around Aberdeen harbour and Gallowgate.
   
   He established two new churches, St Margaret's and St Clement's, in the docklands area and persuaded the sisters of the Society of St Margaret, based in East Grinstead, to establish a community in Aberdeen to work alongside him in caring for the poor.

2. 2. Church History

   www.stmargaretsgallowgate.netf - [Cached]

   Published on: 6/27/2004   Last Visited: 2/12/2007

   The church of St. Margaret of Scotland, in Aberdeen's Gallowgate, was founded by Father John Comper in 1867. Comper was Rector of St. John's, Crown Terrace, the city's oldest episcopal congregation. He was a man who was greatly moved with compassion for the urban poor who lived in the hundreds of tenement flats in the Gallowgate area. Comper rented a mission room in Seamount Place and thus began the story of St. Margaret's close involvement with the community, serving and looking after
   
   the welfare of the people of the area.
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   Find out more: The Rector has published a booklet describing the life and work of Fr. John Comper. It can be purchased from him by contacting.

3. 3. St. John's Episcopal Church, Aberdeen.

   www.st-johns-aberdeen.org/beau - [Cached]

   Published on: 10/7/2006   Last Visited: 11/24/2007

   John Comper was the Rector of St John's from 1861 - 1870 and was ‘a man ...
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   The centre window immediately above this shows the risen Christ flanked by Peter, the Virgin Mary, John (beardless) and James (the great) and the top window shows Christ in glory wearing a rainbow coloured robe and surrounded by allegorical figures.