further recommended that the services in that new church should be of a more lively 'High Church' variety available for those who felt inclined toward that style of worship. They firmly believed that their rector, the Reverend D. Fitzgerald , and many of the leading parishioners, showed no openness to consideration of changes to the established pattern of worship at St. Paul's. This was true despite repeated pleas by several younger parishioners to implement innovations. The Rector of St. Paul's Church was unwilling to acquiesce to these demands. He fought openly to prevent the establishment of a second church in the city. The colonial laws governing the erection of a new church were the same as the laws in England , which laid out the stipulation that a church must have a parish with definite territorial boundaries. The Reverend Mr. Fitzgerald refused to consent to the division of his parish or suffer a new church to be opened, except that it be a 'Chapel of Ease' under the direction of his parish. In effect it would operate as an overflow for the poorer members of his parish and would mean that there would be no change in the type of worship to be conducted there. This condition was unacceptable to those young men and women of the congregation who earnestly desired a change in the worship pattern. The idea of a Chapel of Ease was not a new one to the of Nova Scotia . St. Paul's Church in Halifax had operated a Chapel of Ease for a number of years as a temporary measure designed to meet immediate needs for space created by an overflow from the original parish church. As the population of Halifax had increased and the housing area had spread, the problem had become more acute. Naturally the more prominent and wealthy members of the church preferred to stay at the old parish church which was in close proximity to their dwellings. Eventually the congregation of St. Paul's, Halifax , was faced with a financial dilemma. It was made worse by the liability of the constant and accumulating indebtedness of the chapel. A decision was finally reached to close the chapel and to sell the building in order to recover some of the financial losses of the parish church. The decision to sell the chapel was made in the midst of a controversy between St. Paul's Church and the majority of existing parishes in Nova Scotia over a Diocesan plan to create a diocesan synod for the province. Bishop Binney interceded on behalf of the chapel congregation and prevented the sale of the building. Instead, he consecrated it as the Church of St. Luke the Evangelist. Not long afterward, Bishop Binney moved the seat of the Bishop's Chair from St. Paul's Church, thereby designating St. Luke's Church as the Cathedral Church of the of Nova Scotia . The Reverend William Bullock became its first Dean. It would hardly have been fitting to have the Cathedral Church of the refuse to cooperate in sending delegates to the Diocesan Synod of Nova Scotia .