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Thursday, October 9, 2025

New Anglican Archbishop appointed

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Peter Christopher
2326 days ago
20190527
Jamaican Bishop Howard Gregory has been appointed to the post of Archbishop for the Province of the West Indies.

Jamaican Bishop Howard Gregory has been appointed to the post of Archbishop for the Province of the West Indies.

pe­ter.christo­pher@guardian.co.tt

The An­gli­can Church in the West In­dies has a new head fol­low­ing the elec­tion of Ja­maican Bish­op Howard Gre­go­ry to the post of Arch­bish­op for the Province of the West In­dies dur­ing its provin­cial syn­od at the Cas­ca­dia Ho­tel yes­ter­day.

Arch­bish­op Gre­go­ry pre­vi­ous­ly held the posts of head of An­gli­can Church in Ja­maica and Cay­man Is­lands.

He suc­ceeds Bar­ba­di­an Dr John Hold­er, who re­tired in Feb­ru­ary 2018 and has be­come the first Ja­maican to head the An­gli­can Church in the Caribbean since Arch­bish­op William Hardie va­cat­ed the post in 1949.

Dur­ing a short press con­fer­ence fol­low­ing his elec­tion, Arch­bish­op Gre­go­ry said there were many top­i­cal is­sues in the Caribbean on which the church need­ed to be lend guid­ance.

“At the mo­ment we are deal­ing with is­sues re­lat­ed to abor­tion, we are deal­ing with is­sues re­lat­ed to mar­i­jua­na, we are deal­ing with is­sues re­lat­ed to hu­man traf­fick­ing and as a church we cer­tain­ly have to be a part of the en­gage­ment of the so­ci­ety bring in some per­spec­tives to bear on these things, not just out of emo­tion, not just po­lit­i­cal par­ti­san in any­way but to bring our the­o­log­i­cal and bib­li­cal per­spec­tive to bear on these sit­u­a­tions,” said the new Arch­bish­op.

He said the po­si­tions on these is­sues, par­tic­u­lar­ly with re­gard to mar­i­jua­na and abor­tion need­ed to care­ful­ly weighed with med­ical per­spec­tives.

“It cer­tain­ly is an is­sue that is of sig­nif­i­cance, again I be­lieve it is one of those where peo­ple line up po­lar­i­ties and I think there has to be some way in which we meet around some com­mon un­der­stand­ing. Which in­volves the con­tri­bu­tion of med­i­cine, which in­volves oth­er dis­ci­plines as well,” said Arch­bish­op Gre­go­ry.

The new­ly elect­ed An­gli­can Arch­bish­op al­so be­lieves that the church can­not ig­nore the sit­u­a­tion in Venezue­lan and its po­ten­tial ef­fect on the Caribbean.

“We can’t be here in Trinidad and ig­nore that, be­cause I think you’re ex­pe­ri­enc­ing it at this point more than any­one else. We cer­tain­ly al­ready are recog­nis­ing the hos­pi­tal­i­ty which Trinidad is en­gag­ing but there has to be a lim­it to that. But we al­so have to recog­nise that there are rea­sons why peo­ple are com­ing here and that some of the so­lu­tions that are be­ing ar­tic­u­lat­ed in­ter­na­tion­al­ly are not ac­cept­able,” he said, “ I think we are mov­ing much clos­er to­wards ac­cept­ing the po­si­tion of Cari­com but we be­lieve that as church we need to say more than what Cari­com says from its par­tic­u­lar van­tage point.”

The new Arch­bish­op how­ev­er gave no per­spec­tive on the role the An­gli­can Church will play in deal­ing with the hu­man­i­tar­i­an cri­sis.

The mat­ter is ex­pect­ed to be dis­cussed at the Syn­od of the Church which ends on May 3.


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