Diocesis di Nortoost Caribe y Aruba

E Diocesis di Nortoost Caribe y Aruba (ingles Diocese of North East Caribbean and Aruba, DIONECA) ta un diocesis Anglicano referente na e iglesia di e ‘Provincia di West India’ (den region di Caribe) cu sede na Saint John's, riba e isla di Antigua. El a wordo funda na 1842 como Diocese of Antigua and the Leeward Islands na momento cu e Obispado di Barbados a wordo subdividi. Su hurisdiccion ta inclui 27 parokia den e teritorionan di Anguilla, Antigua y Barbuda, Aruba, Dominica, Montserrat, Saba, Sint Barth, Sint Kitts y Nevis, Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten y e parti Frances di e isla di Sint Maarten. Su misa principal ta e catedral di Saint John’s, y e aktual obispo ta Errol Brooks.

 Historia 
Na cuminsamento di e epoca di colonisacion (atesta for di 1632) e region di Caribe tabata pertenece na e Obispado di London. Sinembargo, na 1813 esaki a declara su mes no responsabel, y como resultado un diocesis independiente di Barbados a wordo forma na 1824. Na 1842 e diocesis a wordo dividi y e arsodiacono di Antigua a wordo nombra como Obispo di Nortoost Caribe y Aruba.Bishoprics, etc., in West Indies Act 1842 (5 & 6 Vict. c. 4). E iglesia independiente di West India ta existi como un iglesia miembro di e comunidad Anglicano for di 1883. Den transcurso di siglo 19 y 20, e area di cuido pastoral tambe a wordo expande pa inclui teritorionan no-ingles den Caribe.

Den e teritorionan di e Mancomunidad Britanico e rol di e diocesis tabata asina importante cu awendia den algun di e paisnan e division administrativo ta basa riba e parokianan (anteriormente districtonan parokial).

 Lista di obispu di DIONECA 
 1842–1857 Daniel Gateward Davis
 1858–1859 Stephen Jordan Rigaud
 1860–1895 William Walrond Jackson
 1895–1897 Charles James Branch
 1897–1905 Herbert Mather
 1905–1910 Walter Farrar
 1911–1936 Edward Hutson
 1937–1943 George Hand
 1944–1952 Nathaniel Newnham Davis
 1953–1969 Donald Knowles
 1970–1998 Orland Lindsay
 1998–presente Leroy Errol Brooks

 Literatura 
 Olva W. Flax, Know Your Church: A Comprehensive Review of the Anglican Church in the Diocese of the North Eastern Caribbean and Aruba (formerly the Diocese of Antigua) 1678–1990, Church in the Province of the West Indies, Diocese of the North Eastern Caribbean & Aruba, Antigua (2000)
 Joan A. Brathwaite, Handbook of churches in the Caribbean, Christian Action for Development in the Caribbean, Caribbean Conference of Churches (1973).
 Andy Gerald Gravette, Architectural heritage of the Caribbean: an A–Z of historic buildings, Ian Randle Publishers, Kingston, Jamaica (2000)
   Anglican servants in the Caribbean c.1610-c.1740., lancaster.ac.uk 
 Donald B Cooper, The establishment of the Anglican Church in the Leeward Islands, Monographs in the humanities, social, and biological sciences: Social sciences series (10), Oklahoma State University (1966)

 Link externo 
 Diocese of the North East Caribbean and Aruba. dioneca.org
 Antigua Anglican Church. bigchurchantigua.com
 St. Kitts Anglican Church stkittsanglicanchurch.org

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