Bishop of Barbados
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The Anglican diocese of Barbados was set up in 1824, as one of two covering the whole Caribbean. Before that, the area was nominally under the charge of the Bishop of London, a situation that had been assumed to hold from 1660 onwards. In 1813, the then Bishop of London denied it was his responsibility, and so it turned out that appointments to the Church in the Colonies were recommended by the local governor, in this case of the Leeward Islands. (Ref. Correspondence in Lambeth Palace archives).
The Barbados diocese initially also covered Trinidad, British Guiana, the Leeward Islands and the Windward Islands. It was later divided up, on the retirement in 1841/2 of the first Bishop: his three Archdeacons took charge as the Bishop of Antigua (Daniel Gateward Davis), of Barbados (Parry) and the Bishop of British Guiana (William Piercy Austin).
There is also a Catholic diocese.
[edit] Anglican Bishops of Barbados
- 1824-1842 William Hart Coleridge (1789-1849)
- 1842-1869 Thomas Parry (1795-1870)
- 1873-1881 John Mitchinson (1833-1918)
- 1882-1898 Herbert Bree (d. 1899)
- 1900-1916 William Proctor Swaby
- 1917-1927 Alfred Pakenham Berkeley
- 1927-1945 David Williams Bentley (d. 1970)
- 1945-1951 William James Hughes
- 1951-1960 Gay Lisle Griffith Mandeville
- 1960-1972 Edward Lewis Evans (1904 - deceased)
- 1972-1993 Drexel Wellington Gomez (1937- )
- 1993-2000 Rufus Theophilus Brome (1935- )
- 2000-present John Walder Dunlop Holder (1948- )
[edit] References
- Biographies of William Hart Coleridge, John Mitchinson
- The Life of Daniel Gateward Davis, by GJP Walker, Croele Publishing Company, St Kitts (1992)
