The Anglican Diocese of the Windward Islands is one of eight

diocese In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associa ...

s within the Province of the West Indies. The current

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Leopold Friday The Right Reverend, Rt Rev Calvert Leopold Friday Order of St Michael and St George, CMG is the current Anglican Diocese of the Windward Islands, Bishop of the Windward Islands. He was born into an ecclesiastical family – his father is the Revd ...

History

Source: The diocese was established on 8 November 1877 from the islands of St Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada and

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. Tobago transferred to the Diocese of Trinidad in 1889 when those two islands were joined together politically and

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joined the Windward Islands diocese in 1899. The new diocese shared a bishop with

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until 1927, when the retiring

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, Alfred Berkeley, was elected as the first full-time Bishop of the Windward Isles. The Cathedral Church of the see is St George's Cathedral in Kingstown, St Vincent.

Bishops

;Bishop of Barbados (and Windward Islands) (1877–1927) *''see

'' ;Bishop of Windward Islands *1927–1930 Alfred Berkeley *1930–1936

Vibert Jackson The Rt Revd Dr Vibert Jackson was a Colonial Anglican Bishop in the Windward Islands from 1930 until 1936. He was born in 1874 and educated at the City of London School and Keble College, Oxford and ordained in 1899. His first post was as a cu ...

*1936–1949

Horace Tonks Horace Norman Vincent Tonks (29 January 1891 – 25 November 1959) was an Anglican colonial bishop in the Windward Islands from 1936 until 1949. He was born in Walsall, England, on 29 January 1891 to Henry and Emily Tonks and educated at the town' ...

*1949–1962

Ronald Shapley Ronald Norman Shapley was a Colonial Anglican Bishop in the Windward Islands from 1949 until 1962. He was born on 16 July 1890 and educated at King's College London. After World War I with the London Regiment he was ordained in 1920. After a cur ...

*1962–1969

Harold Piggott Harold Grant Pigott (20 August 1894 – 26 August 1979) was an Antiguan-born Anglican bishop who served as Bishop of the Windward Islands from 1962 until 1969. He was educated at the Codrington College, Barbados and ordained in 1918. Crockford's ...

*1969–1986

Cuthbert Woodroffe Sir George Cuthbert Manning Woodroffe KBE (known as Cuthbert; 17 May 1918 - 29 November 2012) was an Anglican Archbishop of the Province of the West Indies. He was a long serving Anglican Bishop of the Windward Islands from 1969 until 1986. For th ...

*1986–1993

Philip Elder Philip Edward Randolph Elder was an Anglican bishop in the 20th century. He was born in 1921, educated at Codrington College, Barbados and ordained in 1951. His first post was as a Curate at St George's Cathedral Guyana. Later he held incumbe ...

*1994–2002

Sehon Goodridge Sehon Sylvester Goodridge was an Anglican bishop and author from Barbados. He was born on 9 October 1937, educated at Harrison College, Codrington College, Barbados and King's College, London and ordained in 1964. His first post was as a curat ...

*2003–present

References

External links

Official website
Windward Islands Anglican Church in the Caribbean Church in the Province of the West Indies {{Caribbean-church-stub