Drexel Gomez
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| Denomination | Church in the Province of the West Indies |
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| See | Nassau |
| Title | Archbishop, Church in the Province of the West Indies & Bishop of Nassau & The Bahamas, & The Turks & Caicos Islands, Primate of the West Indies |
| Period in office | 1998 — present |
| Consecration | 1972 |
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| Priestly ordination | 1959 |
| Previous bishoprics | Bishop of Barbados |
| Previous post | Bishop |
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| Date of birth | 24 January 1937 |
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Anglican Church in North America · Anglican Church of the Southern Cone of America |
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American Anglican Council · Anglican Coalition in Canada · Anglican Communion Network · Anglican Mission in the Americas · Convocation of Anglicans in North America · Federation of Anglican Churches in the Americas |
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Anglican Province of America · Episcopal Missionary Church · Reformed Episcopal Church |
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Peter Akinola · Robert Duncan · Drexel Gomez · Gene Robinson · Gregory Venables · Rowan Williams |
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Anglicanism · Windsor Report · Ordination of women · Homosexuality and Anglicanism |
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Drexel Gomez (24 January 1937, Berry Islands - ) is an Anglican Archbishop.
[edit] Life and work
A graduate of St Chad's College, Durham University in 1959, he was consecrated as Bishop of Barbados. In 1997 he was elected Bishop of the Diocese of the Bahamas & the Turks & Caicos Islands. He was elected Archbishop and Primate of the Province of the West Indies in 1998. His full title is His Grace, The Most Rev'd Drexel Wellington Gomez, Lord Archbishop, Metropolitan and Primate of the Church of the West Indies & Bishop of the Diocese Of Nassau & The Bahamas (Including the Turks & Caicos Islands).
Along with Archbishop Peter Akinola, Anglican Primate of Nigeria, Archbishop Gomez is a leading opponent of the ordination of practising homosexuals as Anglican clergy, an issue that escalated into a crisis for the Anglican Communion following the consecration of openly gay clergyman Gene Robinson as Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in the USA in 2003.
In October 2003 Archbishop Gomez was appointed to the Lambeth Commission on Communion by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams. The Commission produced the Report of the Lambeth Commission on Communion (also known as The Windsor Report and the Eames Report), published in October 2004.
In August 2007, Archbishop Gomez was the main preacher at a service where several Anglican Archbishops consecrated two American priests as bishops despite the opposition of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. He accused the U.S. church of "aggressive revisionist theology" and teaching lies.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Paulson, Michael (2007-08-31). "Consecration in Kenya widens a religious rift: 2 US priests now Anglican bishops". The Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/08/31/consecration_in_kenya_widens_a_religious_rift/. Retrieved 2007-08-31.
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