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