Bruin Romkes Comingo Explained

Bruin Romkes Comingo ("Mr. Brown") was the first Presbyterian minister ordained in Canada.^[1] He arrived in Halifax as a Foreign Protestants during Governor Edward Cornwallis' tenure. He was ordained by Rev. John Seccombe.^[2] He served at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church (Lunenburg), Nova Scotia. (His ordination was preceded by the irregular ordination of John Frost (minister) in Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia.)^[3]

External links

• A sermon preached at Halifax, July 3, 1770, at the Ordination of the Rev. Bruin Romeas Comingoe. To the Dutch Calvanistic Presbyterian Congregation at Lunenburg ... Being the first preached in the Province of Nova Scotia, on such an occasion. To which is added an Appendix.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Biography – COMINGO, BRUIN ROMKES – Volume V (1801-1820) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography. www.biographi.ca.
2. Web site: The literary diary of Ezra Stiles. Edited under the authority of the corporation of Yale University by Franklin Bowditch Dexter. Ezra. Stiles. Franklin Bowditch. Dexter. January 28, 1901. New York C. Scribner's Sons. Internet Archive.
3. Web site: Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society. 1878 . Halifax. Internet Archive.