History

THE ANGLICAN CHURCH IN THE DIOCESE OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

THE DEANS & RECTORS HOLY TRINITY CATHEDRAL

#

NAME

YEAR

 

1

John H. Clapham

1802 -1824

 

2

George M.A. Cummins

1824 – 1842

 

3

George W. Chamberlain

1842 – 1847

 

4

Samuel L. B. Richards

1848 – 1877

 

5

Richard Rawle

1878 – 1888

 

6

Augustus E. Smith

1889 – 1914

 

7

Edward J. Holt

1914 – 1947

 

8

Harold Beardmore

1947 – 1948

 

9

John E. Ashworth

1948 – 1954

 

10

Benjamin N. Y. Vaughn

1955 – 1960

 

11

Frederick D. Chaplain

1961 -1968

 

12

Alfred T. P. Harrison

1968 – 1972

 

13

The Right Rev. Rawle E. Douglin (Bishop & Dean) 

1973 – 1994

 

14

Knolly U. Clarke

1994 – 2004

 

15

Richard Ian Colin Sampson

2004 – 2014

 

16

The Right Rev. Claude Berkley (Bishop & Dean)

2014 – 2017

 

17

Carl O. Williams (Interim Rector)

2014 – 2017

 

18

The Very. Rev. Shelley-Ann Tenia

2017 – present

 

THE BISHOPS

#

NAME

YEAR

 

1

Richard Rawle (First Bishop of Trinidad)

1872 – 1889

 

2

J. Thomas Hayes

1889 – 1904

 

3

J. Francis Welsh

1904 – 1916

 

4

Arthur H. Anstey (Archbishop of the West Indies 1943-1945)

1918 – 1945

 

5

Fabian E. M. Jackson

1946 – 1949

 

6

Douglas J. Wilson

1951 – 1956

 

7

F. Noel Chamberlain

1957 – 1961

 

8

W. James Hughes

1962 – 1970

 

9

Guy Marshall

1968 – 1974

 

10

Clive O. Abdulah (first Local Bishop)

1970 – 1993

 

11

Rawle E. Douglin (Coadjutor, Sep. 1992 – Aug. 1993)

1993 – 2001

 

12

Calvin W. Bess (Coadjutor, De. 2000 – Jan. 2001)

2001 – 2011

 

13

Claude Berkley (Coadjutor, Mar. 2011 – Dec. 2011)

2011 – present

 

THE ARCHDEACONS

 

1

George M. A. Cummins (First Archdeacon)

1842

 

2

Henry Richards

1879

 

3

Edward B. Trotter

1895

 

4

Augustus E. Smith (Archdeacon & Dean)

1902

 

5

Arthur Hombersley

1914

 

6

Wiltshire Doorly

1930

 

7

William T. Allen (Diocese)

1931

 

8

Algernon Boodle (South)

1931

 

9

Herwald R. Davies (Tobago)

1931

 

10

Frank L. Merry

1939

 

11

Frederick J. F. Streetly

1942

 

12

C. Stokely Doorly

1943

 

13

Frederick R. Banks

1946

 

14

Graham T. Bartholomew

1948

 

15

Stephen K. Cumberbatch

1969

 

16

Desmond T. Murray

1987

 

17

Kenneth M. Forrester

1996

 

18

Steve A. West (North Trinidad)

2004

 

19

Edwin Primus (South Trinidad)

2004

 

20

Philip F. Isaac (Tobago)

2006

 

21

Kenley Baldeo (North Trinidad)

2016