Church in the Province of the West Indies

The Church in the Province of the West Indies is one of

40 member provinces in the worldwide Anglican
Communion.[1] The church comprises eight dioceses
spread out over much of the West Indies area.[2] The Church in the Province of the
present position of Archbishop and Primate of the West West Indies
Indies is held by the current bishop of Jamaica, Howard Classification Protestant
Gregory. Gregory was elected[3] as the thirteenth
Orientation Anglican
Archbishop of the Province by clergy and laity attending
the 40th Synod of the CPWI at the Cascadia Hotel, in Port Scripture Holy Bible
of Spain, Trinidad in May 2019. The position was Theology Anglican doctrine
previously held by John Holder who retired in 2018.
Polity Episcopal
Drexel Gomez was the primate before Bishop Holder until
2009. The church is also part of the Global South Primate Howard Gregory
Fellowship of Anglican Churches. Territory Barbados, Belize,
Guyana, Jamaica, the
History Cayman Islands, the
Bahamas, the North-
The West Indies became a self-governing province in 1883 Eastern Caribbean and
because of the Church of England missions in territories Aruba, Trinidad and
that became British colonies. It is made up of two mainland Tobago, and the
dioceses and six island dioceses, including Barbados, Windward Islands
Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, the Bahamas, the North-Eastern
Caribbean and Aruba, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Official website https://cpwianglicans.org/
Windward Islands. Great emphasis is being placed on
training personnel for an indigenous ministry. The island locations and scattered settlements make pastoral
care difficult and costly.

Mission organisations
The Jamaica Church Missionary Society is the recognised missionary agency of the Diocese of Jamaica
and the Cayman Islands in the Province of the West Indies. The society focuses on evangelisation with
special relevance to daily human needs.

The society was established in 1861 as a subsidiary of the church, intended to target those sections of
Jamaica's "hard to reach" population. For many years the mission stations established and maintained by
the society provided the only means of reaching the masses of the population with Christianity and basic
education.

Theological college
Codrington College, an Anglican preparatory in Saint John, Barbados, opened in 1745.

Dioceses
The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands
Barbados
Belize
Guyana
Jamaica and the Cayman Islands
North East Caribbean and Aruba
Trinidad and Tobago
Windward Islands

See also
Christianity portal

Caribbean portal

Anglican churches in the Americas

Archbishop of the West Indies
Caribbean Conference of Churches

References
1. Staff writer (2 August 2013). "Archbishop of Canterbury to visit Barbados" (http://www.cbc.bb/
index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7662:archbishop-of-canterbury-to-visit-bar
bados&catid=36:local-news&Itemid=59). CBC. Retrieved 3 August 2013. "One of his
primary commitments as Archbishop is to visit each of the Archbishops of the thirty-eight
Provinces of the Anglican Communion within his first two years as Archbishop of Canterbury.
His visit to Archbishop of the West Indies and Bishop of Barbados, John Holder, is in
keeping with this promise. He is expected to discuss matters relating to the Church in the
Province of the West Indies."
2. "Province of the Church of the West Indies (Anglican) 2021" (https://www.unionbetweenchris
tians.com/2020/11/province-of-church-of-west-indies.html). Retrieved 2021-11-06.
3. "Bishop Howard Gregory is the New Archbishop of the West Indies – Diocese of Jamaica &
The Cayman Islands" (http://www.anglicandioceseja.org/?p=17629). Retrieved 2019-06-25.

External links
Anglican Communion provincial website (http://www.anglicancommunion.org/tour/province.c
fm?ID=W3)
Church of England history in the West Indies (http://www.anglican.bb/hist)
Anglicanism in the West Indies and Caribbean (http://anglicanhistory.org/wi/) from Project
Canterbury
Anglican Diocese of Belize Web site (http://anglicandioceseofbelize.com)
About St. Kitts Anglican Church (https://web.archive.org/web/20070702035051/http://www.st
kittsanglicanchurch.org/about.php) — part of the Diocese of North East Caribbean and
 Aruba

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