Archbishop of the West Indies

Title of an Anglican primate in the Caribbean region

Archbishop of the West Indies

Archbishopric
Anglican
Incumbent:
Vacant
Style| The Most Reverend
Location
Territory| Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, the Bahamas, the North-Eastern Caribbean and Aruba, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Windward Islands
Information
First holder| Enos Nuttall
Formation| 1897
Denomination| Anglican
Parent church| Church in the Province of the West Indies

The Archbishop of the West Indies is the Anglican primate of the Province of the West Indies, part of the worldwide Anglican Communion.

## History

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The West Indies became a self-governing province of the Church of England in 1883, when William Piercy Austin (who had been Bishop of Guyana since 1842) was appointed the first Primate. The title was changed from Primate to Archbishop (and Primate) in 1897.

The title of Archbishop is invariably held concurrently with that of bishop of one of the eight dioceses of the province, and it is common for the most senior bishop in the province to be elected as archbishop.

## Primates

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* William Piercy Austin (1884–1891)
* Enos Nuttall (1892–1897)

## Archbishops

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* Enos Nuttall (1897 – 1915)
* Edward Parry (1916 – 1921)
* Edward Hutson (1921 – 1936)
* Edward Arthur Dunn (1936 – 1943)
* Arthur Henry Anstey (1943 – 1945)
* William George Hardie (1945 – 1950)
* Alan John Knight (1951 – 1979)
* George Cuthbert Manning Woodroffe (1979 – 1986)
* Orland Ugham Lindsay (1986 – 1996)
* Drexel Wellington Gomez (1996 – 2009)
* John Walder Dunlop Holder (2009 – 2018)
* Howard Gregory (2019 – 2024)

## Bishops

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The bishops within the Archbishop's province are from two "mainland" dioceses (Belize and Guyana) and six island dioceses.

* Anglican Diocese of Belize
* Anglican Diocese of Guyana
* Diocese of The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands
* Diocese of Barbados
* Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands
* Diocese of the North East Caribbean and Aruba
* Anglican Diocese of Trinidad and Tobago
* Anglican Diocese of the Windward Islands

## See also

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* Christianity portal

* Anglican Churches in the Americas

## External links

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* Church of England history in the West Indies Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine

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Primates and Archbishops of the West Indies

* William Austin
* Enos Nuttall
* Edward Parry
* Edward Hutson
* Edward Dunn
* Arthur Anstey
* William Hardie
* Alan Knight
* Cuthbert Woodroffe
* Orland Lindsay
* Drexel Gomez
* John Holder
* Howard Gregory

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Archbishop of the Caribbean

* British West Indies
* Danish West Indies
* Dutch Caribbean
* Caribbean Netherlands
* Netherlands Antilles
* French West Indies
* West Indies Federation

West
Indies|

| Antilles|

| Greater
Antilles|

* Cayman Islands
* Cuba
* Jamaica
* Navassa Island
* Puerto Rico

| Hispaniola|

* Dominican Republic
* Haiti

|

Lesser
Antilles|

| Leeward
Islands|

* Anguilla
* Antigua and Barbuda
* Guadeloupe
* La Désirade
* Les Saintes
* Marie-Galante
* Montserrat
* Saba^*
* Saint Barthélemy
* Saint Kitts and Nevis
* Sint Eustatius^*

| Saint Martin^|

* Collectivity of Saint Martin
* Sint Maarten

|

Virgin Islands|

* British Virgin Islands
* U.S. Virgin Islands

Southern
Caribbean|

| Leeward
Antilles|

* Insular Venezuela
* Federal Dependencies
* Nueva Esparta

| ABC islands|

* Aruba
* Bonaire*
* Curaçao

|

Windward
Islands|

* Dominica
* Grenada
* Carriacou and Petite Martinique
* Martinique
* Saint Lucia
* Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

*  Barbados†
* Trinidad and Tobago†

Lucayan
Archipelago|

* Bahamas
* Turks and Caicos Islands

Caribbean
Sea|

* Aves Island
* San Andrés and Providencia
* Bajo Nuevo Bank~
* Serranilla Bank~

Caribbean
continental
zone|

* Quintana Roo
* Cozumel

| Central America|

* Belize
* Honduras
* Bay Islands
* Izabal
* Limón
* Corn Islands
* North Caribbean Coast
* South Caribbean Coast
* Panama

|

South America|

* Colombian Caribbean
* Venezuelan Caribbean

Wider
groupings
may include:|

* Bermuda#
* Costa Rica
* El Salvador
* Guatemala
* Nicaragua

| Yucatán Peninsula|

* Campeche
* Petén
* Yucatán

|

The Guianas|

* Amapá
* French Guiana
* Venezuelan Guayana
* Guyana
* Guayana Esequibaǂ
* Tigri Areaǂ
* Suriname

N.B.: Territories in italics are parts of transregional sovereign states or non-sovereign dependencies.

^These three form the SSS islands that with the ABC islands comprise the Dutch Caribbean, of which *the BES islands are not direct Kingdom constituents but subsumed with the country of the Netherlands.

†Physiographically, these continental islands are not part of the volcanic Windward Islands arc, although sometimes grouped with them culturally and politically.

ǂDisputed territories administered by Guyana. ~Disputed territories administered by Colombia.

#Bermuda is an isolated North Atlantic oceanic island, physiographically not part of the Lucayan Archipelago, Antilles, Caribbean Sea nor North American continental nor South American continental islands. It is grouped with the Northern American region, but occasionally also with the Caribbean region culturally.

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