Christ Church

Christ Church Cambridge, one of Massachusetts oldest Episcopal churches, celebrated its 200th anniversary last week with a series of meetings on "The Mission of the Church in the World Today."

The church was organized in 1789 for Church of England families living in Cambridge, who had no church nearer than King's Chapel, Boston. Its first missionary was the Rev. East Apthorp, whose house on Plympton St., was so close to the doors of Harvard College that alarm and antagonism among Puritans forced Apthorp's resignation and return to England.