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1824-2024 Q: What is a Diocese? A: In the Anglican Church, a Diocese is a territorial/geographical area that is administered by a Bishop. Initially known as The Diocese of Jamaica, the title was amended to include “and the Cayman Islands” which came under the jurisdiction of Jamaica in the …
ARTICLE COURTESY OF churchofengland.org PUBLISHED 21 JUNE, 2023 A group of bishops from the Church in the Province of the West Indies (CPWI) are visiting Dioceses across England this week to mark the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the HMT Empire Windrush in the UK from the West Indies. …
News Story For Immediate Release Commemoration of the inaugural voyage of the HMT Empire Windrush which began with a Service at the Kingston Parish Church on May 24 – the date on which the vessel sailed from Kingston in 1948, culminates with a National Service of Thanksgiving on Thursday, …
The Family of the Late Bishop Alfred Reid and the St. Barnabas Cure of Anglican Churches, Manchester have established a scholarship in his honour. This scholarship is tenable at Church Teachers’ College, Mandeville, Manchester to pursue studies in History. Interested Anglican students are invited to apply to: Church Teachers’ College …
A National Service commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the departure of The Empire Windrush for Britain in 1948 will be held at the Kingston Parish Church, South Parade, on Wednesday, May 24 at 10.00 am. The Service at which the Archbishop of the West Indies and Bishop of Jamaica and …
April 21, 2023 HOUSING BENEFITS FOR RETIRED CLERGY & CHURCH WORKERS I am pleased to advise that retired clergy and church workers may now access financial assistance for housing from the Farquharson Jamaica Trust Fund which was established following the sale of Farquharson House in 2018. Beneficiaries identified in the …
152nd Annual Synod of the Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands held in the St. James Parish Church, Montego Bay April 11, 2023 Theme: A Renewed Church for a Time of Critical Social Change Nehemiah 2:17-18 Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in, how Jerusalem lies …
Preparations for the 152nd Diocesan Synod gather momentum this week with three Regional Pre-Synod Conferences, the first of which, for the Kingston Region, take place today (March 21) atSt. Luke’s Church, Cross Roads. Other Conferences will be held on Thursday, March 23 atSt. Gabriel’s Church, May Pen for the Mandeville …
Communiqué The House of Bishops of the Church in the Province of the West Indies (CPWI) meeting on Tuesday, March 7, and the Standing Committee of CPWI meeting on Wednesday, March 8, and Thursday, March 9, 2023, at the Cardiff Hotel, Runaway Bay, St. Ann, Jamaica, in the Diocese …
Bishop Thompson who retired in 2020 after 47 years as an ordained minister is remembered for the “single-minded passion” which he displayed for his lifelong pastoral vocation in the Diocese of Jamaica and The Cayman Islands. This culminated with his consecration in 2005 as Suffragan Bishop of Kingston – an …
THE CHURCH IN THE PROVINCE OF THE WEST INDIESChurch in the Province of the West Indies _____________________________________________________________________________ THE COMMUNIQUÉ We, the members of the House of Bishops, the House of Clergy and the House of Laity of the Church in the Province of the West Indies at the Forty-First Triennial …
Power, Justice, and Peace Last Christmas, the minds of people across the world were still focused on the Covid-19 pandemic. Today, the major global concern is the invasion of Ukraine by the superpower, Russia, with its devastating consequences and suffering for the people of Ukraine, and for the global community …
