Mariano Di Gangi

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Mariano Di Gangi
Born(1923-07-23)23 July 1923
Brooklyn, New York
Died18 March 2008(2008-03-18) (aged 84)
Ottawa, Ontario
EducationWestminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia (1946)
The Presbyterian College, Montreal (postgrad)
ChurchPresbyterian Church in Canada
Congregations served
Tenth Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, 1961-67)
Knox Presbyterian (Toronto, 1987-92)

Mariano Di Gangi (23 July 1923 in Brooklyn – 18 March 2008 in Ottawa)[1][2][3] was a minister of the Presbyterian Church in Canada.

Biography

A native of

postgraduate courses at The Presbyterian College, Montreal. He served congregations in Montreal, preaching in both English and Italian from 1946 to 1951, in Hamilton, Ontario from 1951 to 1961, where St Enoch's Church (merged in 2005 to become Trinity Presbyterian Church, Hamilton) grew to a membership of over 1,000. He served on the Committee of Evangelism and Social Action of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, and was part of the group that produced the Declaration of Faith Concerning Church and Nation deemed a subordinate standard
of the church in 1954.

He then returned to Philadelphia to serve at the historic

Tyndale University College and Seminary(then known as Ontario Theological Seminary) ; and was named Professor Emeritus in Pastoral Theology. He served as the Canadian and North American Director of a missionary
agency called Interserve (formerly Bible and Medical Missionary Fellowship) from 1967 to 1988.

He was designated an "Evangelist-at-Large" within the Presbyterian Church in Canada during the 1970s and 1980s, and hosted a radio broadcast Amazing Grace, sponsored by Presbyterian Men, and broadcast on a few stations, and also participated on other radio ministries in both Canada and the United States.

He was also active in the formation and early years of the

Urbana 84),[5] and at Evangelistic Meetings particularly in Canada, the US, and in Italy. He was also involved in the formulation of papers connected to the Lausanne Covenant.[6]

Di Gangi authored many books dealing with the Christian faith, including A Golden Treasury of Puritan Devotion: Selections from the Writings of Thirteen Puritan Divines, Twelve Prophetic Voices, The Book of Joel: A Study Manual, and The Spirit of Christ.

A chapter in Tenth Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia: 175 Years of Thinking and Acting Biblically by

James Montgomery Boice
.

Publications

References

  1. ^ remembering.ca obituary
  2. ^ Globe and Mail obituary
  3. ^ "With the Lord" (obituary) – D. Marion Clark, Tenth Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia
  4. ^ Presbyterian Church in Canada: Obituary Archived 22 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  5. Urbana. Archived from the original
    on 14 October 2007. Retrieved 24 March 2008.
  6. ^ [1][permanent dead link]

External links

Religious titles
Preceded by
Donald Grey Barnhouse
 Senior Pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church
1961-1967 		Succeeded by
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