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The widely-acclaimed Diocesan Festival Choir, which is the longest-serving choral group in Jamaica and which has been in the vanguard of classical and church music presentations, marks its 90th Anniversary this year. Several items from the Choir’s diverse repertoire will be featured in a short Recital during the Anniversary Service …
Celebrating 90 Years of Music THE DIOCESAN FESTIVAL CHOIR Date May 17, 2015 Venue Kingston Parish Church Time 3:30 p.m. This is a special invitation to congregations and friends to attend the Service to launch the 90th Anniversary …
Photo Credit: Flickr/SIM Central and South East Asia (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) (Extracted from the Anglican Communion website) The Rev. Lewis Lew, Dean of Nepal Deanery of the Diocese of Singapore of the Church of the Province of South East Asia, says the effects of the 7.9 Richter scale earthquake that …
The Easter 2015 issue of The Anglican is out and has been circulated to Churches. Highlights of the issue include: Easter Messages from the Bishops, the installation of the first female priest as Rector of St George’s Church, Grand Cayman, the new Diocesan Mission at Longville Park in Clarendon and …
Retirees and awardees with senior officials of the Diocese In a gesture which was deeply appreciated by the honourees, the recent Synod took a break from its business sessions on April 9, to say thanks to six retirees and to recognize outstanding performances by four church organisations in 2014. Honoured …
A Panel Discussion in which Mrs. Diahann Gordon-Harrison, Children’s Advocate, was the main presenter was one of the highlights on the second day (Tuesday, April 8) of the recently-concluded Diocesan Synod. The focus was “Children, Crime, Corruption – A Case Study of Jamaica’s Adolescents.” The Children’s Advocate defined corruption as …
Bishop of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, the Rt. Rev. Howard Gregory, says both the church and the nation must accept responsibility for the present moral, social, spiritual and economic tone in the society, and not blame some cruel fate. However, he offers the assurance that, within the providence of …
Miss Judith Thompson, Manager of the National Housing Trust’s May Pen Branch, presents the keys to the Longville Park house to Bishop Howard Gregory, while a thankful Bishop Thompson observes. The Jamaica Church Missionary Society (JCMS) has purchased a two-bedroom house in Phase 3 of the Longville Park community in …
The Rt. Rev. Libby Lane was consecrated as the first female bishop in the Church of England in a packed service at York Minster today (January 26) attended by more than 100 bishops from the Church of England and women bishops from across the Anglican Communion. In a statement shortly after being …
The first meeting of the Design Group charged with developing plans for the 39th Triennial Synod of the Church in the Province of the West Indies (CPWI) will take place in Kingston this week under the Chairmanship of the Rt. Rev. Robert Thompson, Suffragan Bishop of Kingston. The two-day meeting …
Bishop Gregory admits Rev. Graham as Rector The Rev. Mary Graham became the first priest from the Cayman Islands and the first woman to be installed as Rector of St. George’s Church, in Grand Cayman at a special service held on Sunday, December 14. Rev. Graham, who served as Priest-in-Charge …
In his first Christmas message to his Diocese, Province and the wider Anglican Communion in 2013, Archbishop of Canterbury, The Most Rev Justin Welby, said the Church is to focus on the good news that Jesus “rescues us from our brokenness and makes us carriers of life and light.” Here …
