Rome (NEV), November 30, 2017 – Today, on the centennial of his death, at the non-Catholic cemetery of Rome, a commemoration of the Methodist missionary Henry J. Piggott was held.
Piggott, born in Lowestoft (Great Britain) in 1831, carried out an intense work as itinerant preacher in Italy from 1831, moving from Turin to Ivrea, Milan, and Padua until 1873, when he settled in Rome. He contributed in the constitution of the Evangelical Methodist Church of Italy of which he was the first Superintendent. He died in Rome on November 30, 1917.
Pastor Jacqui Horton, member of the Council for Ecumenical Relations of the Methodist Church of Great Britain, and Tim Macquiban, pastor of the English Methodist Church of Ponte Sant’Angelo and Director of the Methodist Ecumenical Bureau of Rome (MEOR), attended the ceremony in the Chapel of the non-Catholic Cemetery. Among other guests, pastor Mirella Mannocchio, president of the Methodist Churches’ Work Organization in Italy (OPCEMI).
The 6th Conference of the Methodist Documentation Center, held November 9th at the University “La Sapienza” in Rome, was dedicated to Henry J. Piggott.
