Howard Kingsley Ainsworth Gregory is a Jamaican Anglican bishop. He was bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Jamaica as its

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starting in 2012, and he became Archbishop of the West Indies in 2019 before retiring from both posts on December 31, 2024. Gregory was educated at the

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. He was ordained a deacon in 1973, priest in 1974. Gregory was the

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of his old university. He was then a lecturer at the Church Teachers’ College in Mandeville then

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at the United Theological College of the West Indies. He became

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in 2002; he was consecrated on 17 May at the Cathedral of St. Jago de la Vega,

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. Gregory was elected as the thirteenth Archbishop of the

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(CPWI) in May 2019. In October 2023, he was awarded the

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. Gregory is married and has one daughter.

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