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Christianity was introduced by Spanish settlers who arrived in Jamaica in 1509. Thus, Roman Catholicism was the first Christian denomination to be established. Later, Protestant missions were very active, especially the Baptists , and played a key role in the abolition of slavery .
One example is a native Jamaican man who asked the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America to establish a mission in the country for inquirers like him and others. [8] The mission was established on 24 April 2015 as the Holy Orthodox Archdiocese in Jamaica, a Vicariate of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Mexico of the Patriarchate of Constantinople.
Jamaican Christian missionaries (2 C) P. Jamaican Protestants (5 C, 7 P) U. Jamaican Unitarians (1 P) Pages in category "Jamaican Christians" The following 12 pages ...
Jamaican Christians (5 C, 12 P) C. Christian clergy in Jamaica (2 C) Churches in Jamaica (4 C, 1 P) M. Christian missionaries in Jamaica (3 C, 2 P) S.
The Baptist Union of Jamaica dates back to 1782 when George Liele, a formerly-enslaved man from Atlanta, Georgia, came to Jamaica and began preaching in Kingston. [1] In 1814, the Baptist Missionary Society, a British organization, sent its first missionary to the island to open a school in Falmouth in Trelawny Parish, for the children of slaves. [2]
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In its Jamaican homeland, Rastafari is a minority culture and receives little in the way of official recognition. Jamaica is an overwhelmingly Christian country, so Rasta beliefs and practices – such as the divinity of H.I.M Hailie Selassie – are sometimes regarded as pagan by Christian Jamaicans. [14]
Pages in category "Jamaican former Christians" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Anthony B; C.