S. Stephen's Church is an historic Episcopal church located at 114 George Street in the College Hill neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island. Located in the midst of the Brown University campus, it is an active parish in the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island, with a strong Anglo-Catholic identity.
The church building, a large stone Gothic Revival structure, was designed by Richard Upjohn and built in 1860–62. In 1889 the congregation received a major bequest from Henry J. Steere, a prominent philanthropist and industrialist.
Its current rector is the Rev. Benjamin Pearce Straley, who was formerly Organist and Associate Director of Music of Washington National Cathedral.
The church building was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
Rectors
Francis Vinton, 1839–1840
George Leeds, 1840–1841
Henry Waterman, 1841–1845
James H. Eames, 1845–1850
Henry Waterman, 1850–1874
Charles W. Ward, 1875–1877
James W. Colwell, 1878–1884
George McClellan Fiske, 1884–1919
Frederick Spies Penfold, 1919–1926
Frederic Fleming, 1927–1930
Charles Townsend, Jr., 1930–1945
Paul van K. Thomson, 1946–1949
Warren R. Ward, 1949–1965
Paul C. Kintzing, 1965–1976
Livingston T. Merchant, 1977–1980
Ronald P. Conner, 1981–1989
David L. Stokes, Jr., 1991–1999
John D. Alexander, 2000–2019
Benjamin P. Straley (2021-)
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Providence, Rhode Island
References
External links
Directory of historical material from Project Canterbury
150 Years on George Street, 2019 parish history edited by John Alexander, foreword by Richard Mammana NRHP registration form