James Rudolph Smithen (born 1942) is the current Dean of Antigua. [1]
Smithen was educated at Queen's Theological College and ordained in 1973. [2] After a curacy at St. John's Cathedral Antigua he was Rector of Anguilla before returning to incumbencies in Antigua. He was Chaplain to the Bishop of Antigua from 1980.
Antigua and Barbuda is an island sovereign state in the West Indies in the Americas, lying between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It consists of two major islands, Antigua and Barbuda, and a number of smaller islands. The permanent population numbers about 95,900, with 97% being resident on Antigua. The capital and largest port and city is St. John's on Antigua, with Codrington being the largest town on Barbuda. Lying near each other, Antigua and Barbuda are in the middle of the Leeward Islands, part of the Lesser Antilles, roughly at 17°N of the equator.
The Leeward Islands are a group of islands situated where the northeastern Caribbean Sea meets the western Atlantic Ocean. Starting with the Virgin Islands east of Puerto Rico, they extend southeast to Guadeloupe and its dependencies. In English, the term Leeward Islands refers to the northern islands of the Lesser Antilles chain. The more southerly part of this chain, starting with Dominica, is called the Windward Islands. Dominica was originally considered part of the Leeward Islands, but was transferred from the British Leeward Islands to the British Windward Islands in 1940.
Sir James Beethoven Carlisle, GCMG is a dentist and the former Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda. Selected by Vere Cornwall Bird, his term ended in June 2007, after 16 years in office.
The music of Antigua and Barbuda is largely African in character, and has only felt a limited influence from European styles due to the population of Antigua and Barbuda descending mostly from West Africans who were made slaves by Europeans.
Antigua, also known as Waladli or Wadadli by the native population, is an island in the West Indies. It is one of the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean region and the main island of the country of Antigua and Barbuda. Antigua and Barbuda became an independent state within the Commonwealth of Nations on 1 November 1981.
Robert Allen Stanford, known primarily by his middle name, is an American convicted financial fraudster and former financier and was also a sponsor of professional sports. He is currently serving a 110-year federal prison sentence, having been convicted in 2012 of charges that his investment company was a massive Ponzi scheme and fraud.
Isaac Royall Jr. (1719–1781) was a colonial American landowner who played an important role in the creation of Harvard Law School.
The Episcopal Diocese of the Virgin Islands is a diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America (ECUSA) which includes both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands. The diocese is a part of Province II of the Episcopal Church. The current Diocesan Bishop of the Virgin Islands is the Edward Ambrose Gumbs. The cathedral church of the diocese is the Cathedral Church of All Saints, Charlotte Amalie. The diocese currently comprises 14 churches. There is a functioning parish school on St. Thomas All Saints Cathedral School there was an academic campus on St. Croix, St. Dunstan's Episcopal High School. St. Dunstan's closed in the 1990s. There is also the St. Georges School located on the parish property of St. Georges Episcopal Church in Road Town, Tortola in the British Virgin Islands, which also opened the St. Georges School in Palestina Estate near to the St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Sea Cow's Bay, Tortola in the British Virgin Islands. There is also the St. Mary's School located on the parish property of the St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Valley, Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands.
Antigua and Barbuda competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, submitting a delegation that included athletes Daniel Bailey, Brendan Christian, James Grayman, and Sonia Williams in track and field events, and Kareem Valentine in swimming. Antigua and Barbuda's appearance in Beijing marked its eighth appearance at the Summer Olympics since the nation's debut at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montréal, Canada. There were no medalists from Antigua and Barbuda in 2008, although Bailey reached the quarterfinals and Christian the semifinals of their respective events.
James Orlando Clement was the Dean of St George's Cathedral, Georgetown, Guyana from 1976 until 1983. He was ordained in 1950 after a period of study at Codrington College, Barbados. He began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy in Montserrat before being appointed Vicar of St George’s in the same country in 1952. After further incumbencies in Anguilla, Antigua and St Kitts he was appointed to a Guyanese parish (Lodge) in 1967. Nine years later he was elected to the Deanery of the Diocese.
Orlando Radhames Antigua Fernández, nicknamed "Hurricane", is a former Dominican-American basketball player and is currently an assistant coach at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign under Brad Underwood. He is widely known as becoming the first Hispanic and the first non-black player for the Harlem Globetrotters in 52 years when he signed in 1995. He was previously the head coach of South Florida from 2014-2017.
Alfred Shankland was a Church of England priest who was Dean of Barbados from 1917 to 1938.
The Very Rev Thomas Clarke was Dean of Barbados from 1886 to 1898.
Henry Young Shepherd MBE (1857-1947) was the Dean of Antigua from 1906 until 1930.
George Stanley Baker was the Dean of Antigua from 1943 until 1970.
The Very Rev Fitzroy Elderfield Pestaina was the Dean of Antigua from 1972 until 1976.
Hilton Manasseh Carty, OBE was the Dean of Antigua from 1977 until 1986.
William Vincent Lake (1947–2003) was the Dean of Antigua from 1986 to 2003.
Leslie Alexander Lett was an Anglican priest in the second half of the twentieth century.
Antigua and Barbuda–Mexico relations refers to the diplomatic relations between Antigua and Barbuda and the United Mexican States. Both nations are members of the Association of Caribbean States, Organization of American States and the United Nations.
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