Bishop Cornell Moss remembered

Wed, Jun 3rd 2015, 10:01 PM

Rev'd Cornell Jerome Moss, Bishop of the Diocese of Guyana, passed away on Saturday, May 30. Bishop Moss had open-heart surgery in Miami about two weeks ago, and had been released from hospital. On Saturday, he started to feel ill around 1 p.m. and passed away, according to the Anglican Diocese of The Bahamas and The Turks and Caicos Islands.
Reverend Laish Boyd, bishop of Nassau said the Anglican community remembered Bishop Moss had as a hardworking priest who had an excellent record of service and integrity.

"It was no surprise when he was identified as the person who would become the Bishop of Guyana. At that diocese he made tremendous contribution. He was a dedicated person, hardworking, organized, and full of creativity," said Boyd.

"We in the diocese mourn his loss as we feel an even greater sense of sadness for the people of Guyana whom he served for a very short time, but an exemplary record of service there, so we are grieved indeed all over our Anglican Province of the West Indies."

Bishop Moss was born in The Bahamas on December 31, 1959. After graduating from St. John's College in 1978, he went on to test his vocation for the sacred priesthood at Codrington College, Barbados, finishing his studies there on November 6, 1982. He was ordained deacon on January 5, 1983 and was stationed at Christ the King Parish, New Providence. He was ordained priest the following year. He served as rector of St. John's Parish, Marsh Harbour, Abaco from 1986 before assuming the post of rector of the Parish of the Ascension in Lucaya, Grand Bahama in 1993.

In 1998, he was appointed archdeacon of the Northern Bahamas, a post he held until his election to the See of Guyana in 2009. When the Diocese of Guyana failed to elect a bishop, the decision devolved to the House of Bishops of the eight Dioceses of the Province of the West Indies. Bishop Moss had served as delegate from this Diocese to the Provincial Synod and was well known and respected as a competent person to assume the bishopric of that Diocese. He was consecrated on December 9, 2009.

In this diocese, Bishop Moss' ministry was characterized by devotion, dedication and the epitome of faithfulness. To his flock he was a pastor par excellence; to his fellow priests he was a respected, learned and articulate team player. In the Diocese of Guyana, he will be remembered for introducing modern up-to-date administrative and fiscal measures that helped to boost the morale of the Anglicans in that ethnically diverse country. Under his leadership, Guyana was able to train and send for training, a number of ordinands for the priesthood, something that hadn't been done for many years.

He is survived by his wife Carol (nee Thompson), his mother Susan Taylor-Hunt and his siblings.

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