Description: St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church Osgoode.
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Every donation (ie. envelopes or cash) that is made to the church each Sunday is subject to a tax that is sent to the Diocese of Ottawa. What remains of the donation is used to support the church to pay the ongoing costs of running the parish, ie. electricity, heat, supplies, maintenance, pastor salary, etc. Due to the repairs required on St. John’s church bell tower, the Diocese has granted us an exemption until Dec.
The land for the church was donated by two families: one acre, part of Lot 19, Con. 3 by Patrick McEvoy and his wife Cecelia Doyle, and three acres, part of Lot 20, Con. 3 by John McEvoy and his wife Anastasia Powers .
Monsignor Guigues, then Bishop of Ottawa, came in person to choose a site on which to build churches in the communities of St. John's and St. Brigid's.