Barbados gets an Anglican bishop
Bishop Michael Maxwell (R) stands with Dean Jeffrey Gibson during Monday’s ceremony.
Photo by George Alleyne
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By George Alleyne
Following a tumultuous
time in most of last year, the
Anglican Diocese of Barbados
finally got a new leader with
the enthronement this week of
Bishop Michael Maxwell, who
immediately assured his flock
that religion still has a role to
play on the island.
“The voice of the church will
be heard,” Bishop Michael told a
packed Cathedral Church of St
Michael and All Angels Monday
afternoon following his ritual
knocking thrice on the Cathedral’s
door seeking ‘admission’
for his enthronement, a fanfare
of trumpets and thunderous
applause as he was led up the
aisle to his symbolic seat as
head of the largest religious
denomination on this island.
In so doing the 47-year-old
became the 14th Bishop of
Barbados’ Anglicans, but one
by appointment because a of
number of voting sessions by
representatives of two houses of
the Anglican synod resulted in
an impasse for most of 2018.
Since Rev’d John Holder
retired as both Bishop in Barbados
and Archbishop of the
Church of the Province of the
West Indies at the end of February,
the elective synod, comprising
Anglican priests who
make up the House of Clergy,
and members of the congregations
who comprise the House
of Laity, were called upon to
elect a new leader.
Early voting whittled the
contest between 45-year-old
Rev’d John Rogers and Dean
Jeffrey Gibson, 61, but despite
a number of voting sessions
through the year neither man
was able to muster the majority
votes of both houses as required
for election of a bishop.
This failure to elect an Anglican
leader of Barbados caused
the matter to be referred to the
House of Bishops of the Province
of the West Indies who in
December looked beyond the
contestants and selected then
Rev’d Michael Maxwell.
This marked the second
time that Barbadian Anglicans
proved themselves unable to
elect their own leader. The elective
synod failed in 1972 resulting
in the House of Bishops
intervening and picking Drexel
Gomez of the Bahamas.
Bishop Michael had been
serving as an Independent Senator
appointed by the island’s
governor general to Barbados’
Upper House of Parliament
when he was fingered for the
Anglican leadership role last
month. He had just completed
six months of parliamentary
service when asked to leave and
lead the church.
“I will continue, to monitor
the political, economic and
social landscape and, of course,
the moral affairs of the nation.
The voice of this church will
certainly be heard as God’s holy
spirit prompts me to speak at
any given time,” he said Monday
assuring his flock of his
parliamentary representation
despite being called to serve
elsewhere.
“The spirit is saying to us,
‘no more lukewarm church.
No more going through the
motions, no more simply a head
thing.’ It is time to wake up and
apply His words to our hearts.”
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