Type: | Archbishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | The Most Reverend |
Howard Gregory | |
Honorific-Suffix: | OJ |
Archbishop of the Church of the Province of the West Indies Bishop of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands | |
Church: | Church of the Province of the West Indies |
Diocese: | Jamaica and the Cayman Islands |
Term: | 2012–present |
Predecessor: | Alfred Reid |
Other Post: | Bishop of Montego Bay (2002–2012) |
Ordination: | 1973 (diaconate) 1974 (priesthood) |
Consecration: | 2002 |
Alma Mater: | University of the West Indies |
Howard Kingsley Ainsworth Gregory has served the Anglican Diocese of Jamaica[1] as its bishop since 2012.[2]
Gregory was educated at the University of the West Indies. He was ordained a deacon in 1973, priest in 1974.[3]
Gregory was the chaplain of his old university. He was 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; he was consecrated on 17 May at the Cathedral of St. Jago de la Vega, Spanish Town.[4]
Gregory was elected as the thirteenth Archbishop of the Church in the Province of the West Indies (CPWI) in May 2019.[5] In October 2023, he was awarded the Order of Jamaica.[6]
Gregory is married and has one daughter.