In a tradition started some 98 years ago, St Peter’s Church in Lluidas Vale, St. Catherine, celebrated the Gifts of the Sugar Cane Harvest at a Service held on Sunday, July 3. Celebrant and Preacher was the Rt. Rev. Robert Thompson, Suffragan Bishop of Kingston. Also in attendance was former Diocesan Bishop, The Rt. Rev.…

The Lord Bishop has announced that the Rev. Garth Minott, Anglican Warden at The United Theological College of The West Indies (UTCWI), has been appointed a Canon of The Cathedral Church, effective October 1, 2016. The Service for his installation will be held at The Cathedral, Spanish Town, on Thursday, September 29, which is observed as the Feast…

The June issue of The Anglican is now available.   The special double issue of the publication contains a Supplement commemorating the centenary of the death of Archbishop Enos Nuttall, the fifth Bishop of Jamaica and outstanding statesman. The Supplement includes messages from national leaders, information on the life of Archbishop Nuttall, as well as accounts…

  Fifty years after taking up her first assignment on May 17, 1966 as Secretary to the then Suffragan Bishop of Kingston, the Rt. Rev. Cyril Emerson Swaby, and the Director of Anglican Schools, Mr. Enos B. Johnson, Mrs. Laceta Morlese-Brown continues to work at the highest level of the Diocesan administration. Reliable, efficient, highly…

In response to last weekend’s shooting at an Orlando night club, the Bishop of Central Florida, the Rt. Rev. Gregory Brewer, has said that “words of condolence have little value.” The Bishop, whose Cathedral of St. Luke is just 1.5 miles (2.6 km) away from the scene of the shooting, said: “all we can do…

Despite the suspension of some activities because of the political chaos, demonstrations, marches, violence and food shortages, priests in the Diocese of Venezuela are getting on with their everyday pastoral work. The Church has decided to stay out of politics and engage in direct work in communities, as the Diocesan Treasurer, the Rev. Jose Francisco…

Following last year’s successful Choir Workshop in which more than 100 choristers from churches in the Corporate Area and St. Catherine, as well as members of the Diocesan Festival Choir participated, noted Jamaican Choir Director and musician, Mr. Donald Morris, will be returning to the island in July to lead a second round of training.…

The keyboard is the newest offering in the range of instruments which children will learn to play at the upcoming Music Camp 2016 to be held at Christ Church, Vineyard Town from July 11 -22. The two-week day camp for youngsters aged 6-17, will provide vocal training, as well as instruction on recorders, steel pans,…

“Under Nuttall’s leadership the Anglican Church not only over-rode the financial crisis created by disestablishment in 1870 but entered a period of expansion of churches, missions and schools” said Emeritus Professor Patrick Bryan in a public lecture on May 31 2016, the actual anniversary of the Archbishop’s death a century ago. The lecture under the…

At the Festal Evensong at the St George’s Church, Kingston on May 29  commemorating the centenary of the death of  Archbishop Enos Nuttall, the Lord Bishop drew parallels between Nuttall’s life and accomplishments and those of the Old Testament prophet Nehemiah.  Like Nehemiah, he said, Enos Nuttall was “drawn by a sense of identification and…