Father Raphael of Jamaica
First Gleaner report.
Daily Gleaner July 19,1913.
GREEK CHURCH.
Jamaican Priest Back in His Native Land.
HAS TRAVELLED MUCH
Conditions in States are not Favourable to Jamaicans.
GREEK CHURCH.
Jamaican Priest Back in His Native Land.
HAS TRAVELLED MUCH
Conditions in States are not Favourable to Jamaicans.
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The Very
Rev. Father Raphael, Priest Apostolic of the Greek Orthodox Catholic
Church, has returned to the island after years of travelling all over
the world. The rev. gentleman is a native of this colony and was born
at Chapelton. Fourteen years ago (the occasion of his last visit to the
island) he was a clergyman in the Protestant Episcopal Church, (the
Church of England in the United States of America) but he was
subsequently received into the order above mentioned, being the first
and, up to now, the only coloured man in western Christendom that has
been admitted. Father Raphael has travelled through Europe and Asia,
visiting the holy places in Palestine. He will remain in Jamaica for
some time and would be glad if opportunities were afforded him in the
different districts of the island to lecture on his wide experiences.
During
a conversation with a reporter of this journal, Father Raphael touched
on a very interesting question -- the ever-increasing emigration of our
young people to foreign parts. He said that he was sorry to find such a
state of things. He had seen many of our people stranded in the United
States, and he was of opinion that the existing conditions there were
not favourable to them, generally. He did not mean to say that many of
them were not prospering, but still this exodus was much to be
deplored. He thought that some steps should be taken to encourage them
to remain at home.
in Jerusalem
