Cuthbert Woodroffe

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Sir George Cuthbert Manning Woodroffe KBE[http://www.burkes-peerage.net/familyhomepage.aspx?FID=0&FN=WOODROFFEGEORGE Burkes Peerage] (known as Cuthbert; 17 May 1918 - 29 November 2012) was an Anglican Archbishop of the Province of the West Indies. He was a long serving Anglican Bishop of the Windward Islands from 1969 until 1986. For the last six years of that period, he served as Archbishop, Primate of the Anglican Church, Province of the West Indies.[http://www.anglicancommunion.org/communion/acc/meetings/acc5/participants.cfm Anglican Communion]

He was born on 17 May 1918 in Grenada and was educated at the Grenada Boys Grammar School. He received his tertiary education at Codrington College, Barbados“Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}} and was ordained in 1945.Crockford's Clerical Directory (86th edition) Lambeth, Church House, 1976 {{ISBN|0-19-200008-X}} His first post was as a curate in St Vincentwhere he met Aileen Connell, the young woman who would become his wife and with whom he would raise a family. [http://stmatthewsparishbiabou.webs.com/windwardislandsdiocese.htm St Vincent Anglican History] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110829205214/http://stmatthewsparishbiabou.webs.com/windwardislandsdiocese.htm |date=2011-08-29 }} He held incumbencies in Barbados.[http://www.anglican.bb/stjoseph Diocese of Barbados] His last post before appointment to the episcopate saw him returning to St Vincent as Sub-Dean of its cathedral. He was consecrated a bishop on 29 September 1969 by Alan Knight.{{Church Times | title = Anniversaries of ordinations | archive = 1994_09_30_013 | issue = 6868 | date = 30 September 1994 | page = 13 | accessed = 15 July 2019 }}