Nazareth Lutheran Church St. John USVI

Nazareth Lutheran Church St. John, Virgin Islands, started as an outpost congregation linked to St. Thomas.

Nazareth is a congregation of the ELCA. The image is of the current church.

Learn more about the Lutheran congregations in this story in Living Lutheran, An Ancient ELCA Church in the U.S.Virgin Islands.

Also notable in the 1720s:

1725 – William C. Berkenmeyer, Graduate of Hamburg, replaces Jacob Fabritius, as Pastor in NYC, Albany and NJ, Slave Owner. Inserted in the church constitution, 1735, “that baptism does not ‘dissolve the tie of obedience.’”