Did you know? (Sunday, February 25, 2024)

By December 1825, The Jamaican House of Assembly passed “The Clergy Act,” investing the Bishop of our newly created Diocese with ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the Jamaican clergy. A resident Bishop removed the need for oversight by the distant Bishop of London, and gradually transferred to Bishop Lipscomb the authority of the Governor of Jamaica to appoint clergy.

However, the Jamaican House of Assembly continued to pay all Anglican clergy, except for the Bishop, the Archdeacon and six priests, who were funded from Britain. Lipscomb approached his ministry with missionary zeal and laid the foundation for the establishment of the Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, as we know it today, with many notable achievements.