# St. John's Anglican Church

Anglican church in Hamilton, Ontario.

Source: https://hamiltons.church/churches/st-johns-anglican/
Last verified: 2026-10-18

## Service times
- Sunday 8:00 a.m. (Said Eucharist)
- Sunday 10:00 a.m. (Holy Eucharist)
- Thursday 10:00 a.m. (Said Eucharist)

The 8:00 a.m. Sunday service and the Thursday service are said services from the Book of Common Prayer, without music; the Thursday Eucharist is held in the chancel and lasts no more than 30 minutes. The 10:00 a.m. Sunday Eucharist follows the Book of Alternative Services, with choir, and Sunday School and a nursery run during it from September to June. Coffee hours follow both Sunday services. The main parking is behind the church, entered from Halson Street.

## Address
272 Wilson Street East, Ancaster, ON L9G 2B9

## Contact
- Phone: 905-648-2353
- Website: https://www.ancasteranglican.org
- Email: admin@ancasteranglican.org
- Affiliation: Anglican Diocese of Niagara

## Accessibility
- Eight hearing-assistance transmitters, for use with earphones or a hearing-aid loop; ask a sidesperson
- Golf-cart assistance from the rear parking lot to the 10:00 a.m. Sunday service
- Drop-off, rear entrance and accessible parking from Wilson Street

## What they believe
St. John's is an Anglican parish of the Diocese of Niagara on Wilson Street East in Ancaster. Under the motto 'Called to Life ~ Compelled to Love', it describes itself as 'ignited by the irresistible love of Jesus and renewed by the Holy Spirit', partnering with God 'to deepen faith, join God's mission, and care for God's world'. It believes that everything, life itself included, comes from God, and through its worship and ministry it seeks to offer its life back to God and to bring life and love to others.

## What to expect
The 8:00 service is a traditional said Eucharist from the Book of Common Prayer, with no music or singing, lasting about 40 minutes. The 10:00 service uses liturgy from the Book of Alternative Services and the wider Anglican world, with organ, choir and congregational singing, and lasts about 50 minutes. Coffee hours follow both services. From the rear parking lot a path through the churchyard leads to the front door of the church.

## About this congregation
St. John's Anglican Church stands at the corner of Wilson Street East and Halson Street in Ancaster, beside its churchyard. The city's heritage inventory records that the Rev. Ralph Leeming, a missionary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel who arrived in Ancaster in 1816, led the building of a Union Church for Anglicans and Presbyterians here in 1824, and that when the Presbyterians sold their share in 1826 the Anglicans named it St. John's. After fire destroyed the frame church in 1868, the present stone church, designed by Gundry and Langley of Toronto and built around a stone chancel added in 1866, was completed in 1869. The church is designated under the Ontario Heritage Act.

The parish says more than 1,700 people have been laid to rest in its churchyard, whose graves run from the 1820s to the present, and burials still take place there. St. John's became a separate parish with its own minister in 1870 and passed to the newly formed Diocese of Niagara in 1875. Its rector is the Reverend Canon Joseph Asselin.

On Sundays a said Eucharist from the Book of Common Prayer is held at 8:00 a.m., and a Eucharist from the Book of Alternative Services, with organ and choir, at 10:00. A said Eucharist is also held each Thursday at 10:00 a.m.

## About this listing
Part of Hamiltons.church. These listings cover a growing selection of congregations in Hamilton; they are not yet exhaustive.
Checked against: ancasteranglican.org (retrieved 2026-10-18); niagaraanglican.ca (retrieved 2026-10-18); hamilton.ca (retrieved 2026-10-18).
What Anglican churches believe: https://hamiltons.church/denominations/anglican/