Welcome

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Our doors are open to everyone! We hope this website helps you learn more about our diverse congregation, its parish life and worship. We encourage you to join us on Sunday to take part in our worship, have your children attend Sunday morning Church School, enjoy our music program, hear a sermon by Fr. Ben, and nourish your spirit through receiving communion and praying with us.

Our congregation welcomes everyone and wants to meet you! Don’t be afraid to ask questions important to you – we will do our best to answer them.

We are part of a global church located in more than 165 countries.

St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church is a vibrant mid-sized parish located in downtown Edwardsville, Illinois – a rapidly growing university community. Our parish was founded in 1841 and is dedicated to serving God and our community through worship and the work of our ministries.

We are one of 40 congregations that make up the Episcopal Diocese of Springfield. The Diocese offices are in Springfield, Illinois. The Diocese of Springfield includes the area east of the Illinois River and Woodford, Livingston, Ford, and Iroquois counties.

The Episcopal Church is comprised of 109 dioceses in 16 nations. As part of the Jesus Movement, the Episcopal Church is following Jesus into loving, liberating and life-giving relationship with God, with each other and with the earth. The Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church is The Most Rev. Michael Bruce Curry.

The Episcopal Church is part of the worldwide Anglican Communion, which traces its heritage to the beginnings of Christianity. Today the Anglican Communion comprises more than 80 million members in 44 regional and national member churches in more than 165 countries. At the head of the Anglican Communion is the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.

Our History

St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Edwardsville was established in 1841 under its first rector, The Reverend Joseph Darrow. The present site has been occupied by St. Andrew's since the early 1870s, but the cornerstone of the current structure was laid in 1916 and the building completed the following year. The new addition, including a spacious parish hall, classrooms, choir rehears…

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