Guyana hosting annual meeting of Caribbean Roman Catholic bishops

Archbishop Nicola Girasoli (Zambia Post photo)

Sixteen bishops and archbishops who head the Roman Catholic Church in the English, French and Dutch-speaking Caribbean countries will be in Guyana from April 21 to April 27, for their Annual General Meeting.

The group, known as the Antilles Episcopal Conference (AEC), will be joined by the Papal Representative to the Antilles Region based in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Italian Archbishop Nicola Girasoli, a press release from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Georgetown said.

This will be the third time in its 64-year history that the AEC will meet in Guyana. The Church in Guyana first