Anglican Church of Bermuda

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This article is about the Anglican diocese in Bermuda. For the Roman Catholic Diocese, see Roman Catholic Diocese of Hamilton in Bermuda.

Arms of the Diocese of Bermuda
Arms of the Diocese of Bermuda

The Anglican Church of Bermuda (as the

Nicholas Dill
, who was installed on 29 May 2013.

As an

World Heritage Site of St. George's Town. St. George's is the oldest English town in the New World
and St. Peter's is the oldest Protestant church in the New World.

History

Trinity Church chapel-of-ease in the City of Hamilton in 1879

The first Church of England services in Bermuda were celebrated by the Reverend Richard Buck, one of the survivors of the 1609 wreck of the

Arthur Heber Browne who served from 1925 to 1948. In 1896, Black Anglican congregants in the Pembroke Parish organized The Guild of the Good Shepherd, indicating a specific mission to, "improve the social and intellectual standard of its members."[4]
This society has remained active for more than 125 years.

In 2022 Lorita Packwood and Jennie Foster Skelton were ordained as the first female deacons in the Anglican Church of Bermuda. This was the first time the Anglican Church of Bermuda ordained women for ministry.[5]

Parish structure

In the

British Overseas Territory of Bermuda, the nine Church of England (since 1978, renamed the Anglican Church of Bermuda as an extraprovincial diocese of the Archbishop of Canterbury) parishes are identical with the civil parishes established following official settlement in 1612. Whereas in England the ecclesiastic parishes generally bear the name of the parish church, in Bermuda the parishes are named for shareholders of the London Company or its successor, the Company of the City of London for the Plantacion of The Somers Isles, with most of the parish churches named for saints, starting with St. Peter's Church, established in 1612 in St. George's Parish (the only parish named for a saint) as the first Protestant church in the New World.[6]

Cathedral

The

Pembroke Parish, Bermuda (which was not to be confused with the much smaller St. John's Church, the parish church for Pembroke Parish). Trinity Church was destroyed by arson and replaced with a similar structure by 1905, which became the Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity
when the Bishop of Bermuda was established as separate from the Bishop of Newfoundland in 1919.

Notes
  1. ^ "Member Churches".
  2. ^ "Our History". Anglican East NL. Anglican Diocese of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
  3. ^ Piper, Liza (2000). "The Church of England". Heritage Newfoundland and Labrador. Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Web Site. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
  4. ISBN 979-8650180227
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  5. ^ Correspondent, Juanae Crockwell, Religion (4 March 2023). "Being first did not occur to me, says female Anglican deacon". www.royalgazette.com.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ "St. Peter's Church". www.stpeters.bm.
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