Orland Lindsay

Orland Ugham Lindsay was a Bishop of Antigua [1] from 1970 to 1998; and for much of that time Archbishop of the West Indies.

Lindsay was born on 24 March 1928 and educated at McGill University.[2] He was ordained in 1957 after World War II service with the RAF and a brief career as a school teacher. He was curate of St Peter’s Vere, Jamaica[3] and then priest in charge of Manchioneal Cure. From 1967 he was the principal of the Church Teachers’ College in Mandeville[4] until his ordination to the episcopate.

He is an active Freemason in both the West Indies and the British Isles.[5][6]

References

  1. Title changed to North Eastern Caribbean and Aruba during his episcopate
  2. Who’s Who 2008 (London, A & C Black, 2008 ISBN 978-0-7136-8555-8
  3. Parish history
  4. Crockford's Clerical Directory (86th issue) Lambeth, Church House, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
  5. District Grand Lodge of Jamaica report.
  6. Ancient & Accepted Rite for England & Wales, "Rules, Regulations, & List of Members 1992" page 377.
Anglican Communion titles
Preceded by
Donald Rowland Knowles
Bishop of Antigua
1970 1998
Succeeded by
Leroy Errol Brooks
Preceded by
George Cuthbert Manning Woodroffe
Primate of the West Indies
1986 1998
Succeeded by
Drexel William Gomez
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