The Tribune

On Tuesday, September 19, being the Feast of St Theodore of Tarsus, before a large congregation, the Reverend Lynden James Douglas was ordained to the Holy Order of Priest, at Christ Church Cathedral. St Theodore of Tarsus, the eighth Archbishop of Canterbury, was a Greek from Tarsus of Cilicia, and lived from 602 until 690 C.E. He was best known for his reform of the English Church and the establishment of a school in Canterbury.

The ordination service was a con-celebrated mass with the Right Reverend Laish Z Boyd Sr, Bishop of the Diocese of the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands serving as the chief celebrant. The Most Reverend Drexel W Gomez and the Right Reverend Gilbert A Thompson were the con-celebrants. The Very Reverend Patrick Adderley, Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, preached the sermon, and the Reverend Alvardo Adderley, assistant curate at the Parish of Holy Cross, Highbury Park, was the litanist.

The Reverend Douglas, a Grand Bahama native, was born in West End. He attended the Hawksbill Primary, and graduated of the Hawksbill High School in 1986. He graduated from Codrington College, Barbados, in May, 2011, with a diploma in pastoral studies, and a bachelor of arts degree, in theology, from the University of the West Indies, Barbados. He was ordained to the Holy Order of Deacon on September 13, 2011.

Prior to testing his vocation, Douglas was employed for 20 years in Grand Bahama’s private sector. Within the church, at the Church of the Good Shepherd, he served as a Sunday School teacher and as Youth Advisor to the Christian Youth Movement (CYM).

The Reverend Douglas is the son of Leo and Rita Douglas, brother to Carron, Genetha, Rachel and Sherisse, and father to Janae.

He continues serving as Assistant Curate at St Matthew’s Anglican Church, New Providence.