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Appendix 1: Territories Under the Antilles Episcopal Conference (Including Population Figures) Appendix 1: Territories under the Antilles Episcopal Conference (Including Population Figures) The Roman Catholic Church in the English-, Dutch-, and French-speaking Caribbean (except Haiti) comprises five Provinces, consisting of twenty-one ecclesiastical units: five Archdioceses, fourteen Dioceses and two Independent Missions. Ecclesiastical units Population % RC RC population % of AEC Province of St. Pierre and Fort-de-France Archdiocese of St. Pierre 414,516 90 373, 064 and Fort-de-France (Martinique) Diocese of Basse-terre and 426,493 95 405, 168 Point-a-Pitre (Guadeloupe) Diocese of Cayenne (French 220,000 75 165, 000 Guyana) Province of St. Pierre and 1,061,009 89 943,233 39 Fort-de-France Total Province of Port-of-Spain Archdiocese of Port-of-Spain 1,338,000 29 393, 372 (Trinidad and Tobago) Diocese of Willemstad: Curaçao 130,801 80 104, 641 Aruba 110,000 81 89, 100 St. Maarten 56,410 39 22, 000 Bonaire 10,797 77 8, 314 Saba 1,350 58 783 St. Eustatius 2,272 25 568 Subtotal Diocese of 311,630 72 225, 405 Willemstad Diocese of Paramaribo 493,000 23 113, 390 (Suriname) Diocese of Georgetown 750,000 8 60, 000 (Guyana) Diocese of Kingstown 121,000 13 15, 730 (St. Vincent and the Grenadines) 246 (Continued) Ecclesiastical units Population % RC RC population % of AEC Diocese of Bridgetown 295,000 4 11, 800 (Barbados) Province of Port-of-Spain 3,308,630 25 819,697 34 Total Province of Castries Archdiocese of Castries 167,000 90 150, 300 (St. Lucia) Diocese of Roseau (Dominica) 67,000 90 60, 032 Diocese of St. George’s 106,000 53 56, 180 (Grenada) Diocese of St. John’s- Basseterre: Antigua and Barbuda 86,000 10 8, 772 St. Kitts and Nevis 51,000 11 5, 610 British Virgin Islands 24,000 15 3, 600 Anguilla 14,108 3 423 Montserrat 5,140 NA NA Subtotal Diocese of 180,248 10 18, 405 St. John’s-Basseterre Province of Castries Total 520,248 55 284,917 12 Province of Kingston Archdiocese of Kingston 2,728,000 4 109, 120 (Jamaica) Diocese of Mandeville (Jamaica) Diocese of Montego Bay (Jamaica) Diocese of Belize City and 320,000 50 160, 000 Belmopan (Belize) Mission Sui Iuris of the Cayman 48,000 3 1, 440 Islands Province of Kingston Total 3,096,000 9 270,560 11 Province of Nassau Archdiocese of Nassau 335,000 22 73, 700 (Bahamas) Diocese of Hamilton (Bermuda) 66,000 15 9, 900 Mission Sui Iuris of the Turks 22,352 20 4, 448 and Caicos Islands Province of Nassau Total 423,352 21 88,048 4 Grand Total AEC 8,409,239 29 2,406,455 100 Note: NA, Not available Source: http://www.aecrc.org; Data on religion (2008). Appendix 2: Socio-Economic Data of AEC Countries Country Gender breakdown Life Infant Literacy Gender expectancy mortality (%) gap index (rank) MF Anguilla 0.94 1 80.53 3.54 95 NA Antigua and 0.91 1 74.25 17.49 85.8 NA Barbuda Aruba 0.90 1 75.06 14.26 97.3 NA Bahamas 0.96 1 65.72 23.67 95.6 0.7128 (36) Barbados 0.94 1 73.21 11.05 99.7 0.7176 (31) Belize 1.0025 1 68.19 23.65 76.9 0.6536 (93) Bermuda 0.94 1 80.71 2.47 98 NA Bonaire 0.93 1 76.03 9.76 96.7 NA British 1.05 1 77.07 15.2 97.8 NA Virgin Islands Cayman 0.96 1 80.32 7.1 98 NA Islands Curaçao 0.85 1 76.25 6.5 97.6 NA French 1.12 1 75 10.40 83 NA Guiana (Cayenne) Dominica 1.02 1 75.33 14.12 94 NA Grenada 1.02 1 65.6 13.58 96 NA Guadeloupe 0.97 1 79 8.41 90 NA Guyana 1 1 66.43 30.43 98.8 0.7090 (38) Jamaica 0.98 1 73.59 15.57 87.9 0.7037 (44) Martinique 0.98 1 80.5 6.0 NA Montserrat 0.96 1 72.6 16.46 97 NA 248 (Continued) Country Gender breakdown Life Infant Literacy Gender expectancy mortality (%) gap index (rank) MF Saba 0.93 1 76.03 9.76 96.7 NA St. Eustacius 0.93 1 76.03 9.76 96.7 NA St. Kitts and 0.99 1 72.94 14.34 97.8 NA Nevis St. Vincent 1.03 1 74.34 13.62 96 NA and The Grenadines St. Lucia 0.96 1 76.25 13.8 90.1 NA St. Maarten 0.92 1 76.03 9.76 96.7 NA Suriname 1.03 1 73.48 19.45 89.6 0.6407 (102) Trinidad and 1.02 1 67 23.59 98.6 0.7353 Tobago (21) Turks and 1.01 1 75.19 14.35 98 NA Caicos Note: NA, not available Source: http://www.prolades.com/amertbl06.htm; (PROLADES is the Spanish acronym for Latin American Socio-Religious Studies Program, located in San Pedro, Montes de Oca, Costa Rica); http://www.gov.bm/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_2_980_227_1014_43/http%3B/ ptpublisher.gov.bm%3B7087/publishedcontent/publish/cabinet_office/statistics/dept___ statistics___additonal_files/articles/facts_and_figures_2009_0.pdf Appendix 3: HIV and AIDS Cases and Related Deaths in the AEC Country Living with HIV/AIDS Deaths due to AIDS during 2009 All people Adult (15–49 years) prevalence % Anguilla NA NA NA Antigua and 682∗ NA NA Barbuda Aruba NA NA NA Bahamas 6,600 3.1 <500 Barbados 2,100 1.4 <100 Belize 4,800 2.3 <500 Bermuda 163 0.3 392† Dominica 300 0.2‡ Guyana 5,900 1.2 <500 Grenada§ 1% Jamaica 32,000 1.7 1,200 St. Lucia 260∗∗ 0.12 217†† St. Kitts and Nevis 270‡‡ 0.55 St. Maarten 579§§ Between 1 and 2% Curacao 1,184§§ Between 1 and 2% Suriname 3,700 1.0 <200 St. Vincent and 408 0.4 223 The Grenadines (1984–1999) Trinidad and 15,000 1.5 <1,000 Tobago Turks and Caicos NA NA NA ∗Total number of cases between 1985 and 2007, Millennium Development Goals Report 2009, http://ab.gov.ag/; †2005; ‡2003, http://data.unaids.org/pub/Report/2006/2006_ country_progress_report_dominica_en.pdf; §http://www.bb.undp.org/index.php?page=grenada; ∗∗2005 data; ##Deaths since 1985, http://data.unaids.org/pub/Report/2006/2006_country_ progress_report_st_lucia_en.pdf; §§Between 1985 and 2007, http://www.undp.org.tt/NA/ MDGReportCURandSXM.pdf; ‡‡Cumulative total from 1984 to 2006, http://www.nachaskn. org/HIVinstkittsnevis.asp; http://data.unaids.org/pub/Report/2008/st_vincent_and_the_ grenadines_2008_country_progress_repor_en.pdf; St. Vincent data source, http://www.paho. org/english/dd/ais/cp_670.htm Note: NA, not available. Appendix 4: Overview of Key Socio-political and Ecclesial Occurrences in the Caribbean and in the Wider World, 1948–2011 Year Broad social context Ecclesial events and documents 1948 UWI started on Mona Benedictine Training School Campus, Jamaica. started in Trinidad. First Meeting of Bishops of the British West Indies. 1950 Jamaican Gladstone Orlando Stanislaus Wilson, PhD., MA, BA (Hons.), BD, DD, DCL, BCL, FRSA, Dip. Soc. Sc. (Diploma in Social Science) was elevated to monsignor (ordained in 1931 by His Eminence William Cardinal Van Rossum, by special permission of his Holiness Pope Pius XI). 1952 St. Michael’s Seminary started in Jamaica. 1955 The first tourist hotel was built on Sint Maarten; it contained only twenty rooms. 1957 François Duvalier, known as The name “Antilles Episcopal “Papa Doc,” won the Conference” was adopted. presidency in Haiti. (He later AEC supported Catholic created a dictatorship and in Chaplaincy at UWI, Mona. 1964 declared himself “President for Life”. He weakened the Roman Catholic Church through his support for Vodun). 252 (Continued) Year Broad social context Ecclesial events and documents 1958 AEC becomes full member of CELAM; Decision taken to include Dutch Antilles and Suriname, the French Antilles, Bermuda, and the Bahamas. 1959 Cuban Revolution led by Fidel Castro. 1960 Rioting on Martinique over lack of island authority. 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion. Inauguration of Aquinas Centre to serve Catholics on the UWI, Mona 1962 West Indies Federation goes Second Vatican Council formally out of existence. (Vatican II) is opened by Pope Jamaica and Trinidad and John XXIII. Tobago become the first independent countries in the English-speaking Caribbean.In a referendum held in Martinique, Guadeloupe, and French Guiana, the majority of voters support the constitutional status (introduced in 1946) of these territories as French overseas departments/regions rather than a move toward greater autonomy or independence. 1963 The Chaguaramas peninsula in Giovanni Battista Montini the northwest of the island of elected Paul VI. Trinidad, which was used as a US naval base since the 1940s, is returned to the control of the now independent state of Trinidad and Tobago. Curaçao began its offshore banking in 1963 with an agreement with the United States that was beneficial for both parties. 1964 The United Theological College of the West Indies (UTCWI), a merger of three theological schools, is formally founded. It becomes operational on a single campus (Mona, Jamaica) in 1967. 253 1965 Anti-Chinese riots in Jamaica. Vatican II is closed by Pope Paul VI. Publication of Gaudium et Spes [Joy and Hope], Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World. 1966 Barbados and Guyana become The Emperor of Ethiopia, Haile independent. Selassie, visits Jamaica and is welcomed by the Rastafarian community who considers him divine (God Incarnate, the Black Messiah, the Second Advent or Reincarnation of Christ). Samuel E.
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