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Howard Kingsley Ainsworth Gregory has served the Anglican Diocese of Jamaica as its bishop since 2012.

Gregory was educated at the University of the West Indies. He was ordained a deacon in 1973 and priest in 1974.

Gregory was the chaplain of his old university. He was a then a lecturer at the Church Teachers’ College in Mandeville then warden at the United Theological College of the West Indies. He became Bishop of Montego Bay in 2002, and was consecrated on 17 May 2017 at the Cathedral of St. Jago de la Vega, Spanish Town.

Gregory was elected as the thirteenth Archbishop of the Church in the Province of the West Indies (CPWI) in May 2019.

Gregory is married and has one daughter.

History
The Rt. Rev. Howard Kingsley Ainsworth Gregory was consecrated as the 14th Bishop of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands on May 17, 2012 in the Cathedral of St. Jago de la Vega, Spanish Town. He was elected at a Special Synod of the Church on March 27, 2012, and succeeds the Rt. Rev. Alfred C. Reid, who retired on December 31, 2011.

Prior to his election as Lord Bishop, Bishop Gregory served as Suffragan Bishop of Montego Bay for 10 years. His pastoral journey began in 1973 when he was ordained a Deacon, and he entered the priesthood in 1974.

His first appointment was that of Anglican Chaplain of the Mona Campus of the University of the West Indies. He later served as Chaplain and Lecturer at the Church Teachers’ College in Mandeville from 1978-80. He was appointed Acting Anglican Warden and Tutor at the United Theological College of the West Indies in 1980, and served concurrently as Priest-in-charge of the Golden Grove Cure. Returning from study leave in 1986, he was appointed Anglican Tutor and Lecturer in Pastoral Care and Counselling. In 1987 he was promoted to the position of Deputy President of the UTCWI. In 1990 he was appointed President of the College and served in that capacity until 2002 when he was elected Suffragan Bishop of Montego Bay.

Bishop Gregory holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theology, the Diploma in Ministerial Studies and a Diploma in Education from the University of the West Indies. In addition, he holds a Master of Sacred Theology degree from the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia, a Doctor of Sacred Theology from Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia, and a Master in Business Administration from the Graduate Theological Foundation in South Bend, Indiana.

Bishop Gregory has been conferred with the Doctor of Divinity degree (honoris causa), by the Graduate Theological Foundation and the Virginia Theological Seminary, respectively.

He is married Charmaine, and my daughter Renee and has one daughter.

The Anglican Church in the West Indies has a new head following the election of Jamaican Bishop Howard Gregory to the post of Archbishop for the Province of the West Indies during its provincial synod at the Cascadia Hotel yesterday. Archbishop Gregory previously held the posts of head of Anglican Church in Jamaica and Cayman Islands. He succeeds Barbadian Dr John Holder, who retired in February 2018 and has become the first Jamaican to head the Anglican Church in the Caribbean since Archbishop William Hardie vacated the post in 1949.

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The Rev Dr Howard Gregory was this afternoon elected as the 13th Archbishop of the Anglican Church in the Province of the West Indies. Gregory, 68, was elected by clergy and laity attending the 40th Synod of the province at the Cascadia Hotel in Port of Spain, Trinidad. He succeeds Rt. Rev. John Holder, who retired in February last year, and was one of two nominees put forward by the House of Bishops. The other candidate was the Rt. Rev. Phillip Wright, Bishop of Belize. Here are five things about Gregory:

1. Is the third Bishop of Jamaica to be elected Archbishop in the Province of the West Indies

2. Is the first Jamaica-born Diocesan Bishop to be elected to this position

3. In 2017, broke ranks with many of his Christian brethren and urged a parliamentary committee to recommend the removal of the offence of buggery from the law books

4. Has been in the priesthood for 45 years

5. Is the 14th Archbishop of Jamaica.