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He was bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Jamaica [1] as its bishop starting in 2024, [2] and he became Archbishop of the West Indies in 2019 before retiring from both posts on December 31, 2024. Gregory was educated at the University of the West Indies. He was ordained a deacon in 1973, priest in 1974. [3] Gregory was the chaplain of his old ...
The diocese was established on 8 November 1877 from the islands of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada and Tobago. [2] Tobago transferred to the Diocese of Trinidad in 1889 when those two islands were joined together politically and Saint Lucia joined the Windward Islands diocese in 1899.
Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Jamaica. 1 February – Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness says that his government is willing to send troops to Haiti as part of a "multinational security assistance deployment". [2] 6 May – Coronation of Charles III as King of Jamaica and the other Commonwealth realms.
The parishes of Jamaica are the main units of local government in Jamaica. They were created following the English settlement of Jamaica in 1655. This administrative structure for the Colony of Jamaica developed slowly. However, since 1 May 1867, Jamaica has been divided into the current fourteen parishes. These were retained after independence ...
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]
The parish is bordered by Trelawny in the east, St. Elizabeth in the south and Hanover and Westmoreland in the west. It covers an area of 594.9 km 2, making it one of the smallest parishes in Jamaica. The population was 184,662 in 2012. [1] About two-thirds of the parish consists of limestone. The Nassau Mountains, which rise from St. Elizabeth ...