The Diocese of Haiti will celebrate its famous founder with a Eucharist and gathering at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Port-au-Prince on March 13.
James Theodore Holly, the African American priest who planted the first few dozen Episcopal churches on that island in the late 1800s, becoming the first Black bishop in the Episcopal Church. Bishop James Theodore was consecrated bishop of Haiti in 1874. He died March 13, 1911.
A preliminary authorization voted at General Convention 2006 added Holly to the church calendar. His commemoration will be March 13th if General Convention 2009 approves.
Wanting to mark the occasion, the Diocese of Haiti invited guests from other dioceses in the Caribbean and the United States and other Christian denominations, as well as members of the Haitian government and political and social leaders to celebrate with them. Bishop Jean Zaché Duracin will celebrate and preach. And according to the Very Rev. Ogé Beauvoir, dean of the diocese’s Séminaire de Théologie, every congregation in the diocese will be sending a delegation.
Item from: The Episcopal Church