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

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of the

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from 1969 until 1986. For the last six years of that period, he served as Archbishop, Primate of the Anglican Church, Province of the West Indies. He was born on 17 May 1918 in Grenada and was educated at the Grenada Boys Grammar School. He received his tertiary education at Codrington College, Barbados and was

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in 1945. His first post was as a

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in St Vincent He held incumbencies in

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. His last post before appointment to the

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saw him returning to St Vincent as

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of its cathedral. He was consecrated a bishop on 29 September 1969 by Alan Knight.

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1921 births 2012 deaths Alumni of Codrington College 20th-century Anglican bishops in the Caribbean Barbadian Anglicans Anglican bishops of the Windward Islands Anglican archbishops of the West Indies 20th-century Anglican archbishops Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire {{Christian-clergy-stub