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<span style="font-weight: bold">Archdeacon Moss enthroned as Bishop of Guyana</span>
The seventh Anglican Bishop of Guyana, Venerable Cornell Moss, was given a grand reception at the Grand Bahama International Airport Tuesday filled with cheers, smiles and hugs on his return home.
Bishop Moss travelled to Guyana for his ordination and consecration at St. George's Cathedral, George-town, which was witnessed by visitors from across the West Indies.
Moss, who served as the rector at the Church of the Ascension in Lucaya, called the experience a moving one and said it was a wonderful recognition for his church, the diocese and the country.
The newly ordained bishop has served in the diocese for the past 25 years as an assistant in Christ the King in New Providence, a parish priest in Abaco and at Ascension for the last 17 years.
"I have had tremendous success in the ministry and it is because of God's grace and these wonderful people working with me. So this is a very special honour for every parish I've served in and, of course, I have served in Ascension longest — so this one is for Ascension," he said.
<span style="font-weight: bold">Moss is only the third Bahamian to become a bishop outside of the country and diocese. </span>
"That speaks well of The Bahamas, a small country, producing another bishop and for the diocese it says that the province looks at us seriously," he said, having been selected from among clergy in eight dioceses of the province and the Anglican communion worldwide.
"Any Anglican priest was eligible for consideration and so the lot fell on me. I am delighted and I will embrace this challenge like I've embraced all others and by God's grace what I have done I will simply continue to do."
Having already started his work, Bishop Moss has had meetings regarding the future of the Guyana diocese and outlined four areas of focus in his enthronement speech on Sunday.
Bishop Moss revealed that he has also given a great deal of focus on the growth of the church as the diocese identifies ways to finance the church's work through developing some of the property and other assets of the diocese as meeting the challenge in providing clergy to staff the diocese.
"There is a shortage, numerically, and many of the clergy are non-stipendary clergy meaning they are not full time in the ministry and many of them are very old," he said.
"So my first order of business would be to recruit and I am in the process of interviewing candidates so that, God willing, September of next year we should be able to have five young men in training for the ministry and I intend to keep that going as long as I am there so that we could be fully staffed."
Bishop Moss said he and his family are supported by the prayers, goodwill and financial resources of many which, he boasts, have been overwhelming.
Now a member of the House of Bishops, as a representative Bishop Moss was part of the selection of the new archbishop of the Province of the West Indies who hails from Barbados.
The seventh Anglican Bishop of Guyana, Venerable Cornell Moss, was given a grand reception at the Grand Bahama International Airport Tuesday filled with cheers, smiles and hugs on his return home.
Bishop Moss travelled to Guyana for his ordination and consecration at St. George's Cathedral, George-town, which was witnessed by visitors from across the West Indies.
Moss, who served as the rector at the Church of the Ascension in Lucaya, called the experience a moving one and said it was a wonderful recognition for his church, the diocese and the country.
The newly ordained bishop has served in the diocese for the past 25 years as an assistant in Christ the King in New Providence, a parish priest in Abaco and at Ascension for the last 17 years.
"I have had tremendous success in the ministry and it is because of God's grace and these wonderful people working with me. So this is a very special honour for every parish I've served in and, of course, I have served in Ascension longest — so this one is for Ascension," he said.
<span style="font-weight: bold">Moss is only the third Bahamian to become a bishop outside of the country and diocese. </span>
"That speaks well of The Bahamas, a small country, producing another bishop and for the diocese it says that the province looks at us seriously," he said, having been selected from among clergy in eight dioceses of the province and the Anglican communion worldwide.
"Any Anglican priest was eligible for consideration and so the lot fell on me. I am delighted and I will embrace this challenge like I've embraced all others and by God's grace what I have done I will simply continue to do."
Having already started his work, Bishop Moss has had meetings regarding the future of the Guyana diocese and outlined four areas of focus in his enthronement speech on Sunday.
Bishop Moss revealed that he has also given a great deal of focus on the growth of the church as the diocese identifies ways to finance the church's work through developing some of the property and other assets of the diocese as meeting the challenge in providing clergy to staff the diocese.
"There is a shortage, numerically, and many of the clergy are non-stipendary clergy meaning they are not full time in the ministry and many of them are very old," he said.
"So my first order of business would be to recruit and I am in the process of interviewing candidates so that, God willing, September of next year we should be able to have five young men in training for the ministry and I intend to keep that going as long as I am there so that we could be fully staffed."
Bishop Moss said he and his family are supported by the prayers, goodwill and financial resources of many which, he boasts, have been overwhelming.
Now a member of the House of Bishops, as a representative Bishop Moss was part of the selection of the new archbishop of the Province of the West Indies who hails from Barbados.
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