New Anglican Bishop enthronement tomorrow

The Right Reverend Claude Berkley’s Enthronement Service as the new Lord Bishop of Trinidad and Tobago, takes place tomorrow, at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in downtown Port-of-Spain.

Drums and bells have been chosen to replace the traditional trumpet fanfare at the Service. While it is reported in the Anglican Outlook that there is expected to be musical input from the place of his birth 54 years ago with the presence of the Signal Hill Alumni Choir of Tobago. The Trinity All-Generations Steel Orchestra (TAGS) will also play at the service and the St Agnes Dancers are to perform. Michele Dowrich of San Fernando is the musical director.

As customary, the new Bishop will meet the Cathedral’s Great West Door locked and will use the crozier with which he was presented at his consecration on March 17, 2011, to knock three times on the door to demand entry. The Very Reverend Dean of the Cathedral, Colin Sampson, will unlock the door and the new bishop who succeeded Bishop Calvin Bess on December 18, 2011, as the 12th Lord Bishop of the Diocese, will advance into the doorway and make his request of the Dean that he “be conducted to the Bishop’s Seat” in the Cathedral Church “there to be inducted, installed and enthroned according to the ancient usage and prescriptive right.” To read more, click here.