Photo Caption: Bishop Gonzalez of Cuba
Visits Church Center
77171
Episcopal News Service
The Rt. Rev. Jose Gonzalez, Bishop of the Episcopal Church in
Cuba since 1967, recently visited the Episcopal Church Center in New York, the
first visit by a bishop of that Church since the Cuban Church separated from the
U. S. Episcopal Church in 1966. At the 1966 meeting of the House of Bishops of
the U.S. Church in Wheeling, W. Va., Cuba was established as an autonomous diocese
within the Anglican Communion under the care and direction of a Metropolitan Council.
Bishop Gonzalez said he hopes his visit will be the beginning of closer relationships
"between my diocese and your Church" and that "it will mark a renewal of the links
between our churches." He said that two acute problems in the Episcopal Church in
Cuba are finances and a shortage of clergy.
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