The previous Diocesan Bishop of the Virgin Islands was Edward Ambrose Gumbs; the seat is currently vacant but Rafael Morales from the Episcopal Diocese of Puerto Rico serves as Bishop Advisor.

There is also the St. Georges School located on the parish property of St. Georges Episcopal Church in Road Town, Tortola in the British Virgin Islands, which also opened the St. Georges School (Secondary Division) in Palestina Estate near to the St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Sea Cow's Bay, Tortola in the British Virgin Islands.

By a Deed of Relinquishment the Archbishop of the West Indies on 24 November 1963 transferred ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Anglican Churches in the British Virgin Islands to the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America.

He arrived in 1963 and assumed jurisdiction over all Anglican and Episcopal churches in the wider Virgin Islands.

[1] In November 1971 the diocese elected its own bishop for the first time, selecting Edward Mason Turner, rector of St. Paul's in Frederiksted.