Episcopal Press and News

Bishop Carral Appointed Bishop-In-Charge of Honduras

Diocesan Press Service. September 17, 1973 [73218]

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The Rt. Rev. John E. Hines, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, has announced the appointment of the Rt. Rev. Anselmo Carral-Solar, Bishop of the Missionary Diocese of Guatemala, as Bishop-in-Charge of the Missionary Diocese of Honduras, effective October 1. Bishop Carral will serve both dioceses.

The appointment came as a result of recommendations by the Rt. Rev. A. Ervine Swift, rector of St. Gregory's Church, Boca Raton, Fla., and Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Southeast Florida, and former Bishop of Puerto Rico. Bishop Swift spent several months in Honduras, at the request of the Presiding Bishop, doing an on-the-spot study of the needs of the Episcopal Church in Honduras, which has four parishes and 478 baptized persons.

The Missionary Diocese of Honduras was formerly attached to Guatemala and prior to that was a part of the Diocese of Central America, created at the time of the transfer of the jurisdictions in these Central American republics to the American Church by the Church in the Province of the West Indies.

Bishop Carral, a native of Cuba and now a U.S. citizen, was elected Bishop of Guatemala in November, 1972, by the House of Bishops, and consecrated in January, 1973, in Guatemala City. At the time of his election to the episcopacy, Bishop Carral was associate rector of San Marcos Church and chaplain at the University of Panama and the Bellavista Children's Home, Panama City, Panama.

The Rev. Robert J. Carlson, rector of San Esteban Church, Mariscos, Guatemala, is being transferred October 1 to Holy Trinity Church, Apartado 28, La Ceiba, Honduras, and the Church of the Holy Spirit, Tela, Honduras.

Bishop Swift has returned to his duties in Boca Raton, Fla. 33432 (P.O. Drawer Q) and the Diocese of Southeast Florida.