The Rt Rev Clive Ormiston Abdulah is a former Bishop of Trinidad and Tobago

Anglican Diocese of Trinidad and Tobago

The Anglican diocese of Trinidad and Tobago is the administrative structure grouping together Anglicans in the nation of Trinidad and Tobago under a bishop. As of 2009, it included 30 parishes, and was responsible for 59 primary schools, one special school, and nine high schools. It is part of the...

 who continues to serve the Church as an Assistant Bishop

Assistant Bishop

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  and a member of the Anglican Consultative Council

Anglican Consultative Council

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. Educated at the Universities of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

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 and Toronto

University of Toronto

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, he was ordained in 1954 and began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy

Curate

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 in Kingston, Jamaica

Kingston, Jamaica

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. He was then Rector

Rector

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 of Highgate and Rural Dean

Rural Dean

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 of St Mary’s in the same country

Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

 before his elevation to the Episcopate. A noted Freemason, Bishop Clive has spoken out about political deadlock in Trinidad

Trinidad

Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands and numerous landforms which make up the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. It is the southernmost island in the Caribbean and lies just off the northeastern coast of Venezuela. With an area of it is also the fifth largest in...

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