Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Church Directories

Caribbean Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Church directories list church ministers, dioceses, and parishes. There currently is no annual directory that lists all of the ministers of Churches for the islands of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

It is important to understand the early historical Ecclesiastical makeup of the islands of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines since this has a major contributing factor in the society which has subsequently developed there. The islanders have always been predominantly Christian. From the 1861 census we get a snapshot of the population and its religious proclivities - the Wesleyan Church (45%) had the most numbers with Church of England (43%) following a close second. The Roman Catholic (8.7%) represented a small number and the Presbyterian (0.21%) were tiny in number.

It is also interesting to note that this differed considerably from that of its sister islands of Grenada which was made up of more than half Roman Catholic (55%) and the island of Barbados, which has alway been predominately Protestant (67%) then Anglican (40%) and an equally tiny minority are Roman Catholic (4%).