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Latin Catholic ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the Caribbean
The
Mission
sui iuris
of Turks and Caicos
(
Latin
:
Missio Sui Iuris Turcensium et Caicensium
) is a
mission
sui iuris
of the
Latin Church
of the
Roman Catholic Church
in the
Caribbean
. The mission encompasses the entirety of the
British
dependency of
Turks and Caicos
. The mission is a suffragan of the
Archdiocese of Nassau
and a member of the
Antilles Episcopal Conference
.
The mission of Turks and Caicos was erected from the Archdiocese of Nassau on 10 June 1984. It was initially attached to the Archdiocese of Nassau, with the Archbishop of Nassau serving as the superior and staffed by priests from
the Bahamas
. On 17 October 1998 it was transferred to the jurisdiction of the
Archdiocese of Newark
in the
United States
, and administrative responsibilities passed to Newark on 3 January 1999. The Archbishop of Newark, as the superior of the mission, appoints a
vicar general
for the Mission and priests from Newark staff its parishes.
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- Lawrence Aloysius Burke
S.J. (1984–1998)
- Theodore Edgar McCarrick
(1998–2000), appointed Archbishop of Washington, DC
- John Joseph Myers
(2001–2017)
- Joseph W. Tobin
(2017?present)
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