Church in the Province of the West Indies

The Church in the Province of the West Indies is a member church of the Anglican Communion and extends over Barbados , Belize , Guyana , Jamaica , the Bahamas and Trinidad and Tobago and has about 770,000 believers. The eight dioceses are Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica and the Cayman Islands , Nassau and the Bahamas, the Northeastern Caribbean and Aruba , Trinidad and Tobago and the Leeward Islands .

At the head of the Church as Primate is the Archbishop of the Ecclesiastical Province of the West Indies. Like some other ecclesiastical provinces, this ecclesiastical province of the West Indies terminated fellowship with the Episcopal Church of the USA after it had ordained the avowed homosexual Gene Robinson as bishop in 2003.

The province comprises eight dioceses in 13 states and eight overseas territories.

diocese	countries	Official seat	bishop
Barbados	Barbados	Bridgetown	Michael Maxwell
Belize	Belize	Belize City	Philip Wright
Guyana	Guyana French Guiana (F) Suriname	Georgetown	Charles Davidson
Jamaica and the Cayman Islands	Jamaica Cayman Islands (GB)	Kingston	Howard Gregory
Bahamas and Turks and Caicos	Bahamas Turks and Caicos Islands (GB) Bermuda (GB)	Nassau	Laish Zane Boyd
Northeastern Caribbean and Aruba	Anguilla (GB) Antigua and Barbuda Aruba (NL) Dominica Montserrat (GB) Saba (NL) Saint-Barthélemy (F) St. Kitts and Nevis	The Valley	Leroy Errol Brooks
Trinidad and Tobago	Trinidad and Tobago	Port of Spain	Claude Berkley
Leeward Islands	Grenada St. Vincent and the Grenadines St. Lucia	Kingstown	Calvert Leopold Friday

Primate

• 1883-1892 William Piercy Austin (Bishop of Guyana)
• 1883–1916 Enos Nuttall (Bishop of Jamaica)
• 1917–1921 Edward Archibald Parry (Bishop of Guyana)
• 1922–1936 Edward Hutson (Bishop of Antigua)
• 1936–1943 Edward Arthur Dunn (Bishop of Belize)
• 1943–1945 Arthur Henry Anstey (Bishop of Trinidad and Tobago)
• 1945–1949 William George Hardie (Bishop of Jamaica)
• 1950–1979 Alan John Knight (Bishop of Guyana)
• 1980–1986 George Cuthbert Manning Woodroffe (Bishop of the Leeward Islands)
• 1986–1998 Orland Ugham Lindsay (Bishop of Antigua)
• 1998–2007 Drexel William Gomez (Bishop of Nassau)
• 2007–2019 John Walder Dunlop Holder (Bishop of Barbados)
• 2019– Howard Gregory (Bishop of Jamaica)

Web links

• The Church in the Province of the West Indies on AnglicanCommunion.org