Diocese of Montego Bay, Jamaica 🇯🇲

Continent: Central America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Montego Bay / Sinus Sereni (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Kingston in Jamaica

Neighbouring Dioceses: Cayman Islands (←), Kingston in Jamaica (→), Mandeville (↓)

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (Universal) 📅

History

1967.09.14: Established as Diocese of Montego Bay / Sinus Sereni (Latin) (from Diocese of Kingston and became suffragan of Kingston in Jamaica)
1991.04.15: Lost territory to establish Apostolic Vicariate of Mandeville

Present Prelates

Bishop:

vacant

Apostolic Administrator (2023.10.16 – ...):

Bishop John Derek Persaud (69)

Bishop of Mandeville (Jamaica)

Vice-President of Antilles Episcopal Conference

Ordinaries

Bishops of Montego Bay (Roman Rite)

Bishop John Derek Persaud (69)
(Apostolic Administrator 2023.10.16 – ...)

Bishop Burchell Alexander McPherson
(2013.04.11 – 2023.10.16)

Service before self

Born:	1951.05.07 (Mavis Bank-St. Andrew, Jamaica)
Ordained Priest:	1991.06.23
Consecrated Bishop:	2013.06.08
Died:	2026.03.25 (Jamaica † 74)

Priest of Kingston in Jamaica (Jamaica) (1991.06.23 – 2013.04.11)

Bishop of Montego Bay (Jamaica) (2013.04.11 – 2023.10.16)

Bishop Charles Henry Dufour (85) (later Archbishop)
(1995.12.06 – 2011.04.15)

Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Kingston in Jamaica (Jamaica)

Sent to serve

Born:	1940.04.25 (Kingston, Jamaica)
Ordained Priest:	1970.08.12
Consecrated Bishop:	1996.02.10

Priest of Kingston in Jamaica (Jamaica) (1970.08.12 – 1995.12.06)

Bishop of Montego Bay (Jamaica) (1995.12.06 – 2011.04.15)

Apostolic Administrator of Mandeville (Jamaica) (2006.08.08 – 2008.05.20)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Kingston in Jamaica (Jamaica) (2011.04.15 – 2016.04.29)

Apostolic Administrator of Mandeville (Jamaica) (2016.04.29 – 2020.06.19)

Bishop Edgerton Roland Clarke (later Archbishop)
(1967.09.14 – 1994.11.11)

Born:	1929.02.14 (Cambridge, Jamaica)
Ordained Priest:	1960.02.02
Consecrated Bishop:	1967.11.30
Died:	2025.02.13 (Kingston, Jamaica † 95)

Priest of Kingston (Jamaica) (1960.02.02 – 1967.09.14)

Bishop of Montego Bay (Jamaica) (1967.09.14 – 1994.11.11)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Kingston in Jamaica (Jamaica) (1994.11.11 – 2004.01.23)

President of Antilles Episcopal Conference (1997 – 2003)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament, Montego Bay, Saint James

Cayman Islands (←), Kingston in Jamaica (→), Mandeville (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 3,878 km²

Population: 10,485 Catholics (1.6% of 658,100 total)

Pastoral Centres: 15 parishes, 20 missions

Personnel: 11 priests (9 diocesan, 2 religious), 7 deacons, 25 religious (4 brothers, 21 sisters), 1 seminarian