On Sunday, November 17, 2002, at 05:00 AM, PADELAWA-D- [email protected] wrote: > #3 Re: Cemeteries Upper Darby or Phil ["Mary Jefferson" > <[email protected]] > Now for another question. James and Rose (Kearns) > Pyott were married in 1772 in Old Swede's Church in Philadelphia. > (After > that they are recorded as living in Upper Darby.) What religion would > they > be? http://www.adherents.com/largecom/com_sweden.html "...For more than four centuries, to be Swedish was to be Lutheran. Every newborn here was automatically registered as a member of the Church of Sweden, the official Lutheran denomination...." http://www.colonialswedes.org/Churches/GloDei.html Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church, Philadelphia "...Gloria Dei was also the site of the first regular Lutheran ordination in the Western hemisphere..." http://www.nps.gov/glde/ Gloria Dei Church Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church was built between 1698 - 1700 and is the oldest church in Pennsylvania. The Swedes preceded the English to this part of America, arriving here in 1646. For nearly two centuries, this church was a mission of the Church of Sweden. As Swedes were absorbed into the general American population, Gloria Dei became English speaking and was admitted into the Episcopal church in 1845.