Drexel Gomez

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The Most Rev'd Drexel Wellington Gomez

Denomination	Church in the Province of the West Indies
Senior posting
See	Nassau
Title	Archbishop, Church in the Province of the West Indies & Bishop of Nassau & The Bahamas, & The Turks & Caicos Islands, Primate of the West Indies
Period in office	1998 — present
Consecration	27 February 2003
Religious career
Priestly ordination	1959
Previous bishoprics	Bishop of Barbados
Previous post	Bishop
Personal
Date of birth	January 1937

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Archbishop Drexel Gomez (b. 1937) is an Anglican Archbishop. Gomez is one of the leading opponents of the ordination of practising homosexuals as Anglican clergy.

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A graduate of St Chad's College, Durham University in 1959, he was consecrated as Bishop of Barbados. In 1997 he was elected Bishop of the Diocese of the Bahamas & the Turks & Caicos Islands. He was elected Archbishop and Primate of the Province of the West Indies in 1998. His full title is His Grace, The Most Rev'd Drexel Wellington Gomez, Lord Archbishop, Metropolitan and Primate of the Church of the West Indies & Bishop of the Diocese Of Nassau & The Bahamas (Including the Turks & Caicos Islands).

Along with Archbishop Peter Akinola, Anglican Primate of Nigeria, Archbishop Gomez is a leading opponent of the ordination of practising homosexuals as Anglican clergy, an issue that escalated into a crisis for the Anglican Communion following the consecration of openly gay clergyman Gene Robinson as Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in the USA in 2003.

In October 2003 Archbishop Gomez was appointed to the Lambeth Commission on Communion by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams. The Commission produced the Report of the Lambeth Commission on Communion (also known as The Windsor Report and the Eames Report), published in October 2004.

In August 2007, Archbishop Gomez was the main preacher at a service where several Anglican Archbishops consecrated two American priests as bishops despite the opposition of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America‎. He accused the U.S. church of "aggressive revisionist theology" and teaching lies.^[1]

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