Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands

Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands
Location
Ecclesiastical provinceWest Indies
ArchdeaconriesKingston, Mandeville, Montego Bay
Information
CathedralCathedral of St. Jago de la Vega
Current leadership
BishopHoward Gregory, Archbishop of the West Indies, Bishop of Jamaica
SuffragansRobert McLean Thompson, Bishop of Kingston
Leon Paul Golding, Bishop of Montego Bay
(vacant) , Bishop of Mandeville
ArchdeaconsPatrick Cunningham, Archdeacon of Kingston
Winston Thomas, Archdeacon of Mandeville, Justin Nembhard, Archdeacon of Montego Bay
Website
www.anglicandioceseja.org

The Anglican Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands[1] is a diocese of the Church in the Province of the West Indies. It was originally formed as the Diocese of Jamaica, within the Church of England, in 1824.[2] At that time the diocese included the Bahamas and British Honduras (now Belize); in 1842, her jurisdiction was described as "Jamaica, British Honduras, the Bahamas".[3] The Bahamas became a separate Diocese (as the Diocese of Nassau) in 1861 and British Honduras in 1891. In 2001, the title of the Diocese of Jamaica was extended to include ‘and the Cayman Islands’ to recognise the growth of the Anglican Church in those islands, which had become part of the diocese of Jamaica in the 1960s.[4]

  1. ^ Diocesan web-site Archived 2009-05-22 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory Lambeth Church House 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
  3. ^ The Colonial Church Atlas, Arranged in Dioceses: with Geographical and Statistical Tables (second ed.). London: SPG. May 1842. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
  4. ^ "The History of the Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands". Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Retrieved 28 November 2015.