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The Anglican diocese of North East Caribbean and Aruba was formed in 1842 as the Diocese of Antigua and the Leeward Islands when the Anglican diocese of Barbados, then with the Diocese of Jamaica one of the two dioceses covering the Caribbean, was sub-divided. It is now one of the 8 dioceses within the Province of the West Indies and comprises the 12 islands of Antigua, Barbuda, Dominica, Montserrat, Anguilla, Aruba, Nevis, Saba, St. Barths, St. Eustatius, St. Kitts, and St. Martin/St. Maarten. The diocesan cathedral is St John's Cathedral in St John's Antigua. There is also a Catholic diocese covering a similar area, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint John's – Basseterre The diocese was under the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Canterbury from its creation in 1842 until 1883, when the Province of the West Indies was created. Initially the Established Church of the area, and thus supported by public funds, it was disestablished in 1869. ==List of bishops== *(1) 1842–1857 Daniel Davis (d. 1857) *(2) 1858–1859 Stephen Rigaud (1816–1859) *(3) 1860–1895 William Walrond Jackson (1811–1895) *(4) 1895–1897 Charles James Branch *(5) 1897–1905 Herbert Mather *(6) 1905–1910 Walter Farrar *(7) 1911–1936 Edward Hutson (also Archbishop of the West Indies, 1922–36) *(8) 1937–1943 George Hand *(9) 1944–1952 Nathaniel Newnham Davis *(10) 1953–1969 Donald Knowles *(11) 1970–1998 Orland Lindsay *(12) 1998-present Errol Brooks 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Diocese of the North East Caribbean and Aruba」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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