Nassau is the capital and largest city of The Bahamas. With a population of 274,400 as of 2016, or just over 70% of the entire population of The Bahamas, Nassau is commonly defined as a primate city, dwarfing all other towns in the country. It is the centre of commerce, education, law, administration, and media of the country.
Drexel Wellington Gomez is a Bahamian Anglican bishop.
The Diocese of Waikato and Taranaki is one of the thirteen dioceses and hui amorangi of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. The diocese covers the area from the Waikato to the area surrounding Mount Taranaki in the North Island of New Zealand.
Sir John Basil Rowland Grindrod KBE was an English-born Australian Anglican bishop. He was the Primate of Australia from 1982 to 1989.
Daniel William Herzog is a retired American Anglican bishop. He served in the Diocese of Albany from 1998 to 2007. After his retirement, he became a Roman Catholic, but returned to the Episcopal Church three years later. He left it once again to join the Anglican Church in North America in 2021.
John Dauglish was an Anglican colonial bishop in the mid 20th century.
The Catholic Church in the Bahamas is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. Columbus landed on one of the islands of the Bahamas in 1492 which he named San Salvador.
Donald Rowland Knowles OBE was a Caribbean Anglican bishop in the 20th century.
The Anglican Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands was formed as the Diocese of Jamaica in 1824. At that time the diocese included the Bahamas and British Honduras, but the Bahamas became a separate Diocese in 1861 and British Honduras in 1891. In 2001, the title of the Diocese of Jamaica was extended to include ‘and the Cayman Islands’ to recognise the growth of the Anglican Church in those islands, which had become part of the diocese of Jamaica in the 1960s.
Henry Norris Churton was an Anglican colonial bishop in the 20th century.
Edward Townson Churton was an Anglican colonial bishop in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Francis Alexander Randal Cranmer Cramer-Roberts was an Anglican priest and colonial bishop in the 19th century.
Spence Burton was an Anglican bishop in the mid 20th century and the first American to be consecrated a bishop in the Church of England.
Bernard Markham was an Anglican bishop in the 20th century.
Gerald Henry Brooks was an Anglican bishop in the third quarter of the 20th century.
Cornell Jerome Moss was the Bishop of Guyana from 8 December 2009 until his death.
Kenneth Herbert Short was an Anglican bishop in Australia. He was the Bishop of Wollongong and then Bishop of Parramatta and Bishop to the Australian Defence Force. He was appointed dean of St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney in 1989. He was a missionary, pastor and military chaplain.
Bishop Michael Eldon School is a private school in Freeport, the Bahamas, run by the Anglican Central Education Authority. The school was formed by the consolidation of other schools including Freeport High School founded in 1965 and Discovery Primary School founded in 1988.
The Anglican Diocese of the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands was originally established in 1861 as the Diocese of Nassau. Retitled the Diocese of Nassau and The Bahamas in 1942, it is now known as the Diocese of The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands. It is a diocese of the Church in the Province of the West Indies, a constituent province of the Anglican Communion.
Keva Bethel, CMG was a Bahamian educator and the first president of the College of the Bahamas. In 1995, she was honoured as a companion in the Order of St Michael and St George.
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