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Three new Priests and a Deacon, who were ordained at the Spanish Town Cathedral on Sunday, June 29, are joined by Bishops of the Diocese following the Service. From left are: The Rt. Rev. Harold Daniel, Retired Suffragan Bishop of Mandeville; The Rt. Rev. & Hon. Alfred Reid, Retired Bishop of Jamaica & The Cayman…
The Hon. James McLean Thompson, former Custos of Westmoreland and father of the Suffragan Bishop of Kingston, The Rt. Rev. Robert Thompson, died yesterday (June 22) in the Sav-la-mar Hospital after sustaining a heart attack. He was 99 years old. Mr. Thompson, who was affectionately called “Jim T,” gave some 54 years’ of outstanding public…
Memorial Mass – A Tribute to Bishop Don Taylor’s Service The life of service to God, the Church and the community demonstrated through the ministry of the Rt. Rev. E. Don Taylor, late Rector of the Kingston Parish Church and retired Vicar Bishop for New York City during his 52 years as a priest will…
(Click photo to enlarge) Bishops at the, late Rector of the Kingston Parish Church and retired Vicar Bishop for New York City. Second row (foreground – left): The Rt. Rev. Alfred Reid, retired Bishop of Jamaica & the Cayman Islands; (third right) The Rt. Rev. Howard Gregory, Bishop of Jamaica & The Cayman Islands; and…
Three Bishops from the Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands will join Bishops from across the Anglican Communion, including the Province of the West Indies, on Wednesday, June 4 for the funeral of the Rt. Rev. E. Don Taylor, late Rector of the Kingston Parish Church and retired Vicar Bishop for New York City.…
Bishop Pays Tribute To The Late Bishop Don Taylor The late Rector of the Kingston Parish Church, the Rt. Rev. E. Don Taylor, who died in New York last Saturday (May 24) has been lauded for his outstanding service to the Diocese of Jamaica and The Cayman Islands (Anglican), the nation and the wider Anglican…
The retired Rector of the Kingston Parish Church, the Rt. Rev. E. Don Taylor, died in a New York Hospital on Saturday afternoon, May 24. He was 77 years old. Bishop Taylor who had been ailing for some time following a heart attack late last year, resigned his tenure at the Parish Church in December…
MESSAGE FROM THE RT. REV. HOWARD K. GREGORY, STD, DD BISHOP OF JAMAICA AND THE CAYMAN ISLANDS My dear Young People: I send you warm Christian greetings as you celebrate Children’s Sunday today, May 4, under the Theme “Yes!! I am special!!” In many families, each child becomes the focus of attention…
The Venerable Patrick Cunningham has been appointed Archdeacon of Kingston, effective May 1, 2014. This follows ratification by the recent Synod of amendments to Canon LII to provide for re-organisation of the Diocese into three Regions, instead of four; and gives effect to the Resolution passed at the Special Synod held in Mandeville in October…
The Rev. Canon Professor Martyn Percy, noted British theologian, author and recently-appointed Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, will be leading the Kingston Region’s Clergy Retreat, to be held from May 19-22 at the Hillcrest Diocesan Retreat Centre, in Brown’s Town St. Ann. The theme which Canon Professor Percy has selected for the Retreat is “Church,…
The list of Rural Deans for 2014 includes four new appointees. These are: The Very Rev. Annett Brown, for the Deanery of St. James/Hanover. She is Rector of St. Augustine Church in CoralGardens, Montego Bay. Rev. Brown began her ministry in 1987 as a Deaconess assigned to the Church of the Resurrection in DuhaneyPark, Kingston.…
The Hon. Mr. Justice Lensley Wolfe, has resigned as Chancellor of the Diocese, effective April 24, 2014, after having served for 18 years. Mr. Justice Wolfe’s resignation was announced by Bishop of Jamaica & The Cayman Islands, the Rt. Rev. Howard Gregory, at the recent Synod of the Church, held at the Sunset Jamaica Grande…