The Archbishop of the West Indies is the

Anglican Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of t ...

primate of the Province of the West Indies, part of the worldwide

Anglican Communion The Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion after the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. Founded in 1867 in London, the communion has more than 85 million members within the Church of England and other ...

History

The

West Indies The West Indies is a subregion of North America, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea that includes 13 independent island countries and 18 dependencies and other territories in three major archipelagos: the Greate ...

became a self-governing

province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions out ...

of the

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in 1883, when William Piercy Austin (who had been

Bishop of Guyana The Anglican Diocese of Guyana is one of eight within the Church in the Province of the West Indies, Province of the West Indies. Its cathedral is St. George's Cathedral, Georgetown. The diocese came into being on 24 August 1842, when William Aust ...

since 1842) was appointed as the first Primate. The title was changed from Primate to Archbishop (and Primate) in 1897. The title of Archbishop is invariably held concurrently with that of bishop of one of the eight dioceses of the province, and it is common for the most senior bishop in the province to be elected as archbishop.

Primates

* William Piercy Austin (1884–1891) *

Enos Nuttall Enos Nuttall was the Anglican Primate of the Church in the Province of the West Indies, elected as such in 1892. Life Born in Lancashire, England, 26 January 1842, he went to Jamaica in 1862 as an unordained missionary of the Methodist Church. ...

(1892–1897)

Archbishops

(1897 – 1915) * Edward Parry (1916 – 1921) *

Edward Hutson Edward Hutson (1871–1936) was a long-serving Anglican Bishop of Antigua from 1911 until his death and, from 1921, Archbishop of the West Indies. Hutson was educated at Codrington College and Durham University and ordained in 1896. He was cura ...

(1921 – 1936) *

Edward Arthur Dunn Edward Arthur Dunn (8 August 1868 – 11 January 1955) was an eminent Anglican bishop in the mid-20th century. Biography Born into an ecclesiastical family – his father was Andrew Hunter Dunn, at sometime the Bishop of Quebec. On 8 August, ...

(1936 – 1943) * Arthur Henry Anstey (1943 – 1945) * William George Hardie (1945 – 1950) * Alan John Knight (1951 – 1979) * George Cuthbert Manning Woodroffe (1979 – 1986) * Orland Ugham Lindsay (1986 – 1996) *

Drexel Wellington Gomez Drexel Wellington Gomez (born 24 January 1937) is a Bahamian Anglican bishop. Life and ministry Gomez was born on the Berry Islands in the Bahamas. He graduated from St Chad's College, Durham University, in 1959. He was enthroned and consecrated ...

(1996 – 2009) * John Walder Dunlop Holder (2009 – 2018) * Howard Gregory (2019 – )

Bishops

The bishops within the Archbishop's province are from two "mainland" dioceses (

Belize Belize (; bzj, Bileez) is a Caribbean and Central American country on the northeastern coast of Central America. It is bordered by Mexico to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and Guatemala to the west and south. It also shares a wa ...

and

Guyana Guyana ( or ), officially the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern mainland of South America. Guyana is an indigenous word which means "Land of Many Waters". The capital city is Georgetown. Guyana is bordered by the ...

) and six island dioceses. *

Anglican Diocese of Belize The Anglican Diocese of Belize was established in 1883. The current bishop is Philip Wright. Established in 1883 as a member of the Church of the Province of the West Indies, the Diocese of Belize now comprises 31 churches spread throughout t ...

Anglican Diocese of Guyana The Anglican Diocese of Guyana is one of eight within the Province of the West Indies. Its cathedral is St. George's Cathedral, Georgetown. The diocese came into being on 24 August 1842, when William Austin (1842-1892) was consecrated as the fi ...

Diocese of The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands The Anglican Diocese of the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands was originally established in 1861 as the Diocese of Nassau. Retitled the Diocese of Nassau and The Bahamas in 1942, it is now known as the Diocese of The Bahamas and the Turks an ...

Diocese of Barbados The Diocese of Barbados is one of eight dioceses of the Anglican Communion that is part of the Province of the West Indies. History The diocese was established in 1824 as one of a pair, the other being the Diocese of Jamaica, which covered the ...

Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands The Anglican Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands 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. At that time the diocese included the ...

Diocese of the North East Caribbean and Aruba The Anglican Diocese of North East Caribbean and Aruba was originally established in 1842 as the Diocese of Antigua and the Leeward Islands when the Anglican Diocese of Barbados, then with the Diocese of Jamaica, one of the two dioceses covering th ...

Anglican Diocese of Trinidad and Tobago The Anglican Diocese of Trinidad and Tobago is the administrative structure grouping together Anglicans in the nation of Trinidad and Tobago under a bishop. It is one of eight dioceses of the Church in the Province of the West Indies. As of 2009, ...

Anglican Diocese of the Windward Islands The Anglican Diocese of the Windward Islands is one of eight dioceses within the Province of the West Indies. The current bishop is Leopold Friday. History Source: The diocese was established on 8 November 1877 from the islands of St Vincent and ...

External links

Church of England history in the West Indies
* Anglican Church in the Caribbean Lists of Anglican bishops and archbishops {{Anglican-stub

History

Primates

Archbishops

Bishops

See also

External links