Arch­bish­op-elect Fr Joseph Ever­ard Har­ris will be or­dained dur­ing a spe­cial cel­e­bra­tion at the Cathe­dral of the Im­mac­u­late Con­cep­tion this af­ter­noon.The or­di­na­tion Mass will be cel­e­brat­ed by Arch­bish­op Ed­ward Gilbert, be­gin­ning at 5 pm. He will be as­sist­ed by a host of cler­gy. A large num­ber of re­gion­al cler­gy as well as mem­bers of the An­tilles Epis­co­pal Con­fer­ence are ex­pect­ed to at­tend.Al­so ex­pect­ed to be among the dig­ni­taries at the or­di­na­tion are act­ing Pres­i­dent Tim­o­thy Hamel-Smith, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie and Op­po­si­tion Leader Dr Kei­th Row­ley, as well as mem­bers of the diplo­mat­ic corps.Fr Har­ris, who takes over the lead­er­ship of the Ro­man Catholic Church on the re­tire­ment of Arch­bish­op Gilbert in late De­cem­ber, will be­come the sec­ond son of the soil to as­sume that re­spon­si­bil­i­ty.The first was Arch­bish­op An­tho­ny Pan­tin, who died in 2000 af­ter serv­ing for 32 years as head of the lo­cal church.Fr Har­ris, a mem­ber of the Spir­i­tan Or­der (Holy Ghost Fa­thers), just as was Arch­bish­op Pan­tin, was or­dained on Ju­ly 14, 1968, and served in var­i­ous mis­sion­ary ca­pac­i­ties in Paraguay, South Amer­i­ca from 1969-1982.

He al­so served as rec­tor of the Re­gion­al Sem­i­nary of St John Vian­ney and the Ugan­da Mar­tyrs at Mount St Bene­dict from 1993-1999.He has al­so done pas­toral work in sev­er­al parish­es in the arch­dio­cese-Holy Trin­i­ty, Arou­ca; St An­tho­ny's, Pe­tit Val­ley; and St Ann's, Port-of-Spain. Un­til his ap­point­ment he served as ju­di­cial vic­ar of the Arch­dio­cese.Fr Joe, as he is fond­ly called, served as provin­cial su­pe­ri­or of his con­gre­ga­tion and did a three-year stint lec­tur­ing in Spir­i­tu­al­i­ty, as well as di­rec­tor of for­ma­tion, Holy Ghost Scholas­ti­cate, Chica­go, USA. He has al­so pub­lished sev­er­al pa­pers on the­ol­o­gy.