Bishop\nGregory was one of two nominees put forward by the House of Bishops, following\nits deliberations this morning. The other candidate was the Rt. Rev. Phillip\nWright, Bishop of Belize. Following separate deliberations by the House of\nClergy and the House of Laity, the entire body reconvened as an Elective\nAssembly. Bishop Gregory was elected on a simple majority. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although the Province of the West Indies was\nestablished in 1883, 136 years ago, Bishop\nGregory is only the third Bishop of Jamaica to be elected Archbishop.<\/strong> \nThe first was the Most Rev. Enos Nuttall, Bishop of Jamaica,\n1880-1916, who was elected Primate on May 26, 1893 and became the first\nArchbishop when the title was changed in 1897. Bishop William Hardie, Bishop of\nJamaica, 1931-1949 was elected Archbishop in 1945 and served until his\nresignation in 1949. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Bishop Gregory’s election is significant as he is the first Jamaican-born Diocesan Bishop<\/strong> to be elected to this position.<\/strong> However, he is not the first\nJamaican Archbishop. The Most Rev. Orland Lindsay, who worked in the\nDiocese of Jamaica before being elected Bishop of Antigua in 1970, was elected\nArchbishop in 1986 in succession to Archbishop Cuthbert Woodroffe of the\nWindward Islands, who was the first West Indian Archbishop. Archbishop Lindsay\nheld the position until his retirement in 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Archbishop Nuttall, while Bishop of Jamaica, played a leading role\nin drawing up the Constitution for a Provincial Synod which had its first\nmeeting in Jamaica in October 1883 with the opening service being\nheld at the St. Andrew Parish Church. At the time, the Synod only involved\nthe Bishops of the Province and it elected the 76 year old Bishop of\nGuyana, William Austin as the Primate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was not until the 1950’s that the Canons of the Synod were amended to\nprovide for the involvement of lay members in the deliberations and the\nfirst such Synod was held in Trinidad in 1959.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The CPWI comprises eight Dioceses, namely: The Diocese of Barbados; the Diocese of Belize; the Diocese of Guyana; the Diocese of Jamaica & The Cayman Islands; the Diocese of Northeastern Caribbean and Aruba; the Diocese of The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands; the Diocese of Trinidad and Tobago; and the Diocese of The Windward Islands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Rt. Rev. Dr. Howard K.A. Gregory was elected this afternoon as the thirteenth Archbishop, Primate and Metropolitan (Anglican) of the Church in the Province of the West Indies (CPWI). He was elected by clergy and laity attending the 40th Synod of the CPWI at the Cascadia Hotel, in Port of Spain, Trinidad. He succeeds…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":17630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17632,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17629\/revisions\/17632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190527_140908-800x600.jpg\")