Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands | |
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Location | |
Ecclesiastical province | West Indies |
Archdeaconries | Kingston, Mandeville, Montego Bay |
Information | |
Cathedral | Cathedral of St. Jago de la Vega |
Current leadership | |
Bishop | Howard Gregory, Archbishop of the West Indies, Bishop of Jamaica |
Suffragans | Robert McLean Thompson, Bishop of Kingston Leon Paul Golding, Bishop of Montego Bay (vacant) , Bishop of Mandeville |
Archdeacons | Patrick Cunningham, Archdeacon of Kingston Winston Thomas, Archdeacon of Mandeville, Justin Nembhard, Archdeacon of Montego Bay |
Website | |
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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]