Ms­gr Ja­son Gor­don, who has been ap­point­ed Bish­op of the Dio­cese of Bridgetown in Bar­ba­dos and of the Dio­cese of Kingstown in St Vin­cent, cur­rent­ly serves as Vic­ar for Ad­min­is­tra­tion in the Arch­dio­cese of Port-of-Spain. An evan­ge­list, lec­tur­er and priest, Gor­don is a past stu­dent of Fa­ti­ma Col­lege who in­her­it­ed an un­der­per­form­ing busi­ness from his fa­ther when he left school. He was able to turn the strug­gling busi­ness around to the ex­tent that he was ac­tu­al­ly earn­ing more mon­ey than many of his friends with uni­ver­si­ty de­grees.

The turn­ing point in his life came when he at­tend­ed a youth meet­ing at the Liv­ing Wa­ter Com­mu­ni­ty. This ex­pe­ri­ence sparked a whole new stage in his spir­i­tu­al jour­ney and at age 22, af­ter two years of bal­anc­ing his busi­ness life and his in­volve­ment with Liv­ing Wa­ter, young Gor­don sold the busi­ness and be­came a full-time mem­ber of the re­li­gious com­mu­ni­ty. He be­gan his stud­ies for the priest­hood at Re­gion­al Sem­i­nary of St John Vian­ney and the Ugan­da Mar­tyrs here in Trinidad, but was lat­er sent to Leu­ven, Bel­gium, for post-grad­u­ate stud­ies. Up­on his re­turn from abroad, Gor­don taught at the sem­i­nary for some time be­fore be­ing or­dained a dea­con in Sep­tem­ber 1990 (his or­di­na­tion had to be post­poned be­cause of the Ju­ly 27 at­tempt­ed coup), and then as priest in March 1991.

He be­came in­volved in sev­er­al projects in the Liv­ing Wa­ter Com­mu­ni­ty, in­clud­ing Foun­tain of Hope, Mar­i­an House and com­mu­ni­ca­tions projects. He al­so con­tin­ued to teach at the sem­i­nary and be­gan spir­i­tu­al di­rec­tion as well as week­end parish min­istry. In 2003, Ms­gr Ja­son Gor­don was ap­point­ed parish priest of Holy Rosary and St Mar­tin de Por­res in Gon­za­les. He had an ex­pe­ri­ence of be­ing shak­en by a mur­der in the com­mu­ni­ty on Good Fri­day morn­ing of that same year, af­ter five mur­ders in six weeks. This prompt­ed him to call a meet­ing of all of the lead­ers of the com­mu­ni­ty - from the imams to the pun­dits to the sports and cul­ture lead­ers - to talk about what was pos­si­ble.

He will be or­dained on Wednes­day, Sep­tem­ber 21, in the Cathe­dral of St Patrick in Bar­ba­dos. Soon af­ter his or­di­na­tion, he will be in­stalled in the Dio­cese of Kingstown in the Cathe­dral of the As­sump­tion.