Episcopal Church of Cuba

The Episcopal Church of Cuba ( Spanish Iglesia Episcopal de Cuba ) is a member church of the Anglican Community in Cuba . Originally founded by US missionaries from the Episcopal Church in the USA , it was part of this church until 1967. Due to political tensions between the USA and Cuba, which had become communist, the Cuban Episcopal Church became an extra-provincial diocese of the Anglican community in 1967 , which does not belong to any ecclesiastical province .

22 priests, including 2 women and 3 deacons, look after around 5,000 believers in 28 parishes and 43 missions. On June 10, 2007 Nerva Cot was consecrated auxiliary bishop . She is the first woman ordained to the Anglican episcopate in a developing country. The church is subordinate to a metropolitan council chaired by the Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada and the Presiding Bishop of the US Episcopal Church and the Primate of the Ecclesiastical Province of the West Indies .

Web links

Official website

Footnotes

1. ^ Report on episcopal ordination