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23/04/2008 - 09:00 23/04/2008 - 19:00 Location(s)St. George's Church, Campo S.Vio Dorsoduro Venice, 30123 VEItaly 400th Appeal - Fundraising for stage 3 St. George’s Day Wednesday, 23rd April, 2008
The Anglican Church in Trieste has been a historic presence since the nineteenth century. There was a strong community of British and other English-speakers in cosmopolitan Trieste during its time as the seaport of the Austrian Empire.
The patronal festival (St.George’s day, 23rd April) in 2005 was the occasion of the first ‘Great Dragon Hunt’ in celebration of the 400th Anniversary of St. George’s Chaplaincy.
It proved rather more successful than we anticipated, so you can now do the hunt on any day by contacting the Chaplain. The hunt involves finding a number of images (reliefs on buildings and paintings) scattered all over Venice, of St. George and the Dragon,
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It is 400 years since Sir Henry Wotton’s embassy from King James I to the Most Serene Republic brought the first Anglican Chaplain, Nathaniel Fletcher, to Venice in 1604/5. 
Anglican Chaplains always accompanied both resident and extraordinary diplomatic missions until the Venetian Republic was ended by Napoleon. After the Congress of Vienna, Great Britain established a consulate in Venice and Anglican services were held there by visiting clergy.
The Anglican Church of St. Anthony Abbot Padova was set up as Padova Anglican Church in June 2004 on the initiative of several of our members, led by Sampson Ajuka, Theophilus Anyanwu and Geoffrey Mbanali, with the help of Rev. Canon John Mlekano of Tanzania, who is spending three years in Venice at the Ecumenical College of S. Bernadino.
