Diocese of the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands

[1] When the Bahamas was granted to the Lords Proprietors of Carolina by the English Crown in 1670 one of the conditions was the establishment of the Anglican church on the islands.

In 1729, with the arrival of Woodes Rogers the first Royal Governor, the Bahamian church was established by law and came under the episcopal jurisdiction of the Bishop of London.

[2] In 1768, a second parish of St John's was created to serve Harbour Island and Eleuthera.

The township of Nassau was proclaimed a city and Christ Church made the diocesan cathedral.

In 1999, Angela Palacious was ordained as the first woman deacon in the Anglican Diocese of Nassau's 138-year history[3] and the following year, she became the first Bahamian woman to be ordained as an Anglican priest.