Bishop of Barbados

Bishop Of Barbados

The Anglican diocese of Barbados was set up in 1824, as one of two covering the whole Caribbean. Before that, the area was nominally part of the Bishop of London's responsibility, a situation that had been assumed to hold from 1660 onwards. In 1813, the then Bishop of London denied it was his responsibility, and so it turned out that appointments to the Church in the Colonies were recommended by the local governor, in this case of the Leeward Islands.

The Barbados diocese initially also covered Trinidad, British Guiana, the Leeward Islands and the Windward Islands. It was later divided, on the retirement in 1841/2 of the first Bishop: his three Archdeacons took charge as the Bishop of Antigua (Daniel Gateward Davis), of Barbados (Parry) and the Bishop of British Guiana (William Piercy Austin).

The official residence was located at Bishop's Court Hill along Upper Colleymore Rock Road (Highway 6).

There is a Roman Catholic diocese in Barbados, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgetown.