Cornell Jerome Moss (31 December 1959 – 30 May 2015) was the
Bishop of Guyana from 8 December 2009 until his death.
He was born on 31 December 1959, and educated at
Codrington College, Barbados and
Nashotah House
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, Wisconsin. He was ordained a deacon on 5 January 1983, and priest on 5 January 1984 by Michael Hartley Eldon, 11th Bishop of Nassau and The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands. He was appointed Curate at Christ the King Parish, Ridgeland Park, Nassau, Bahamas, Rector of St John the Baptist Parish on Marsh Harbour,
Abaco in September 1986. After six and a half years, he was appointed second
Rector of the Church of the Ascension,
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in March 1992. In 2000, he became
Archdeacon
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of the
Northern Bahamas and was elected
diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Guyana in August 2009. Moss died on 30 May 2015 while recovering from heart surgery in
Miami, Florida
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References
1959 births
Alumni of Codrington College
Archdeacons of the Bahamas
21st-century Anglican bishops in the Caribbean
2015 deaths
Barbadian Anglicans
Anglican bishops of Guyana
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