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Reverend Stanley St John Redwood (born 3 March 1965) is a Jamaican minister and former politician from the People's National Party. He was the 10th President of the Senate of Jamaica, serving from 18 January 2012 to 10 May 2013. A former Moravian minister and the founder of the New Holland Church, Redwood served in leadership positions within several universities before entering politics. After unsuccessful bids for a seat in the Jamaican House of Representatives in 2002 and 2007, he was appointed to the Senate after the 2011 general election. Redwood's decision to resign from the Senate and emigrate to Canada with his family in May 2013 was controversial, although Redwood promised to return to Jamaica after settling his family abroad. ==Early life== Stanley Redwood was born on 3 March 1965 in Joint Wood, Saint Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica. In 1989 Redwood received a Diploma in Ministerial Studies and a Bachelor of Arts in Theology from the United Theological College of the West Indies, and became a Moravian minister. He was appointed to a leadership position over several Moravian Churches in Manchester Parish, to the east of Saint Elizabeth Parish. Redwood would go on to serve in a number of administrative roles in academia. In 1995 he became the Dean of Studies at the Jamaica Bible College.〔 In 1996 he began tutoring and supervising the studies of theological students at the International University of the Caribbean (IUC). He became a full-time employee of the IUC in 2005, and served at different times as a lecturer, regional dean, and assistant vice-president at the IUC. In the late 1990s Redwood also held positions with the Social Development Commission and the National Youth Service.〔 By the time Redwood began his political career, he had been unaffiliated with the Moravian Church, which has a strict prohibition against pastors entering politics, for several years. Subsequent to his break from the Moravian Church, Redwood founded the New Holland Church in Saint Elizabeth Parish. 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「Stanley Redwood」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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