Osmond P. Martin

He studied for the Catholic priesthood at Kenrick Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, and was ordained a priest on April 3, 1959, in his home parish of Sacred Heart in Dangriga.

Principal consecrator was Bishop Robert Louis Hodapp, S.J., of Belize and co-consecrators were Archbishop Gordon Anthony Pantin, C.S.Sp., of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, and Archbishop Samuel Emmanuel Carter, S.J., of Kingston, Jamaica.

And in 1986 the Columbans came to St. Ignatius, St. Vianney, and Ladyville around Belize City and, after a few years, to Dangriga.

[3]: 293 In 1989 Martin summoned the first ever synod of the diocese which gave direction to the efforts of the diocese in the ensuing years, in the areas of education, formation of the laity (family life and marriage, social concerns, youth), and liturgy.

The voice of the diocese goes out from here through radio, television, and the monthly Christian Herald newspaper.