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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Anglicans get new bishop Thursday

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For on­ly the sixth time in its his­to­ry, the An­gli­can Church in the Dio­cese of Trinidad and To­ba­go will con­se­crate a new bish­op. Canon Claude Berkley, cur­rent rec­tor of All Saints An­gli­can Church, will be con­se­crat­ed in a cer­e­mo­ny ex­pect­ing to last just over three hours on Thurs­day morn­ing at the Holy Trin­i­ty Cathe­dral. Berkley was elect­ed Bish­op Coad­ju­tor on Oc­to­ber 31 and will re­place cur­rent Bish­op Calvin Bess when he re­tires from of­fice on De­cem­ber 18. Berkley, who is orig­i­nal­ly from To­ba­go, will be­come the first per­son from that is­land to hold the post of bish­op. It will be the sixth time a bish­op will be con­se­crat­ed in 139 years.

At a me­dia brief­ing at Hayes Court yes­ter­day, Bish­op Bess said many parish­ioners, es­pe­cial­ly from To­ba­go, would be present at the cer­e­mo­ny, along with Pres­i­dent George Maxwell Richards, Mem­bers of Par­lia­ment and rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the diplo­mat­ic corp. The cer­e­mo­ny starts at 9 am with a pro­ces­sion of wit­ness­es from City Hall. The pro­ces­sion will in­clude vis­it­ing bish­ops and cler­gy, lay min­is­ters, acolytes and the Arch­bish­op of the West In­dies, Rev­erend John Hold­er, who is al­so the Bish­op of Bar­ba­dos. The pro­ces­sion will pro­ceed east along Knox Street, south along Fred­er­ick Street and West on­to Hart Street be­fore en­ter­ing the cathe­dral.

Bish­op Bess said the cer­e­mo­ny would in­clude sev­er­al high points, among them ex­am­i­na­tion of the can­di­date by the House of Bish­ops and a prayer for the can­di­date dur­ing which he would lie pros­trate as an act of sur­ren­der to God. Each of the vis­it­ing bish­ops will present the new bish­op with var­i­ous items, in­clud­ing a ring, mitre, Bible and a pas­toral staff. Canon Berkley said his elec­tion was a mo­men­tous oc­ca­sion and his main fo­cus up­on as­sum­ing of­fice would be to ad­dress the church's short­age of cler­gy, build mem­ber­ship in the church and strength­en con­fi­dence among An­gli­cans in their faith.


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