Bishop of Barbados

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).

The official residence was located at Bishop's Court Hill located along Upper Colleymore Rock Road. (Highway 6)^[1]

There is also a Roman Catholic diocese.

Anglican Bishops of Barbados

1. 1824–1842 William Coleridge (1789–1849)
2. 1842–1869 Thomas Parry (1795–1870)
3. 1873–1881 John Mitchinson (1833–1918)
4. 1882–1899 Herbert Bree (1828–1899)
5. 1900–1916 Proctor Swaby (1844–1916)
6. 1917–1930 Alfred Berkeley (1862–1938)
7. 1930–1945 David Bentley (1882–1970)
8. 1945–1951 James Hughes (1894–1979)
9. 1951–1960 Gay Mandeville (1894–?)
10. 1960–1972 Lewis Evans (1904–1996)
11. 1972–1993 Drexel Gomez (born 1937)
12. 1993–2000 Rufus Brome (born 1935)
13. 2000–present John Holder (born 1948)

References

• Biographies of William Hart Coleridge, John Mitchinson
• The Life of Daniel Gateward Davis, by GJP Walker, Croele Publishing Company, St Kitts (1992)
• Diocese of Barbados – former bishops

1. ^ Bishop’s Court to be developed

External links

• Barbados Parliament: The Anglican Church Act