Presiding Bishop to Visit Cuba Next Month
12/04/2006

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and Canadian Archbishop Andrew Hutchison will attend the metropolitan council meeting of the Anglican Church in Cuba next month.

Comprising some 10,000 members spread over 46 parishes, the Diocese of Cuba ceased to be part of The Episcopal Church amid worsening Cold War tensions in the 1960s. In recent years, it has been overseen by a metropolitan council consisting of the Presiding Bishop, the Primate of Canada, and the Primate of the Church of the Province of the West Indies.

The Jan. 29-Feb. 1 trip remains a "work in progress," the director of communications for The Episcopal Church, Canon Robert Williams, told The Living Church. However it "follows on Bishop [Frank] Griswold's promise that he would encourage his successor to participate" in the life of the Cuban church. the rest