A BOOK of Condolence has been opened at Austin’s House, Kingstown, Georgetown, which was once home to the late Anglican Bishop of Guyana, the Right Rev. Cornell Moss.Among the first to sign the book early yesterday morning was President David Granger, who, in describing the kind of person that was Rev. Moss, said he was “a breath of fresh air in the Diocese of Guyana,” and that his departure from this plane was “far too soon.”
President Granger said Moss was a Caribbean man who adopted Guyana readily, “and easily faced the challenges of this large diocese with determination and dedication.”
Moss, 56, reportedly died on Saturday in Miami, Florida, where he was recuperating from heart surgery. A native of The Bahamas, he died mid-afternoon after suffering a relapse. He had been the Bishop of Guyana since December 2009.
He was born on December 31, 1959, and educated at Codrington College, in Barbados, and Nashotah House in Wisconsin.
Moss was ordained a deacon on January 5, 1983, and a priest on January 5, 1984 by Bishop Michael Hartley Eldon, 11th Bishop of Nassau and The Bahamas, and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
He was appointed Curate at Christ the King Parish, Ridgeland Park, in Nassau, the Bahamian capital, and Rector of St. John the Baptist Parish on Marsh Harbour, Abaco in September, 1986.
After six-and-a-half years, he was appointed 2nd Rector of the Church of the Ascension, in Freeport, Bahamas in March 1992, and in 2000 became Archdeacon of the Northern Bahamas. He was elected Bishop in August, 2009. (GINA)