Religion in the Turks and Caicos Islands

The majority of the population of the Turks and Caicos Islands are Christian. The CIA World Factbook states that as of 1990 40% were Baptist 16% Methodist, 18% Anglican, 12% Church of God, and 14% "other".

History

Baptist

Methodism

Anglicanism

The Turks and Caicos Islands belong to the "Anglican Diocese of the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands" within the "Church in the Province of the West Indies". They have many natives who practice this religion and influence many-a-tourists.

Roman Catholicism

Prior to 1984, Turks and Caicos Islands was a part of Archdiocese of Nassau in the Bahamas. In 1984, it became a mission sui iuris (Independent Mission), the first Ecclesiastical Superior being Archbishop Lawrence A. Burke. During that time the islands were served by a number of priests who stayed anywhere from a few months to a year and a half.

In the three years prior to 1998 the islands were served by a priest who came for some eight months of the year. The remaining six months of those last three years there was no priest present on the islands.

July 1998, at the request of the Holy See, the Archbishop of Newark provided two priests to serve on a full time basis the Catholic community of the Turks and Caicos Islands. In the Fall of 1998 the Archbishop of Newark, Theodore McCarrick, assumed responsibility as Ecclesiastical Superior of the Mission Sui Iuris of Turks and Caicos Islands. On 9th October 2001 The Most Reverend John J. Myers succeeded Cardinal McCarrick as Archbishop and as Ecclesiastical Superior. Presently serving the Mission is the Reverend Monsignor Ronald J. Rozniak, the Archbishop's Vicar General for the mission, and two parochial priests.

External links

* [http://www.catholic.tc R.C.M Turks and Caicos Islands]