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<span style="color:darkviolet"> You will probably need to write to or email the national archives, the diocese, or local parish priests to find records. See the [[Letter Writing Guide for Genealogy|'''Letter Writing Guide for Genealogy''']] for help with composing letters.</span><br> | <span style="color:darkviolet"> You will probably need to write to or email the national archives, the diocese, or local parish priests to find records. See the [[Letter Writing Guide for Genealogy|'''Letter Writing Guide for Genealogy''']] for help with composing letters.</span><br> | ||
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='''Anglican (Episcopal) Church Records'''= | |||
==Writing for Records== | |||
==Historical Background== | |||
The Anglican Church had its first presence in Honduras as early as the 17th century when English traders, adventurers, and Buccaneers arrived on its soil to exploit the precious woods that made up its tropical forests. However, it was not until the 20th century that the Episcopal Church established Chaplaincies to serve the employees and their families of the fruit companies such as United, Standard, and Cuyamel Fruit Company. | |||
The first Episcopal Church in Honduras, Emmanuel Church by the Sea, was founded in the Bay Island of Roatan. Eventually the church spread to the mainland in Trujillo, Colón in 1827, where the St. Paul Mission founded. | |||
Subsequently churches were founded throughout Honduras including St. John’s Episcopal Church in Puerto Cortes, Holy Trinity Church in La Ceiba, and Holy Spirit in the city of Tela. These last three churches were subsequently maintained by lay readers from the Afro-Honduran Community who were Afro-Caribbean descendants of those who came to build the Panama Canal and the railroads throughout the Caribbean coast of Central America for United Fruit Company in the 19th and 20th centuries. | |||
In 1968 the Diocese of Honduras was formed with a total of four congregations; Holy Spirit in Tela, St. John’s the Baptist in Puerto Cortes, Holy Trinity in La Ceiba and Emmanuel by the Sea in Roatan. | |||
In addition to the 156 Episcopal parishes, the diocese is ministering to the nation through its seven bi-lingual schools; the El Hogar farm school, technical school, girl’s boarding school, orphanage; 3 HIV clinics; Anglidesh an organization for the development of Honduras through micro-business finance; and the Faith, Hope, and Joy Housing Project. Today, the Church is subdivided into two (2) regions (North-Western and Central-South-East) with (10) deaneries. | |||
= '''Catholic Church Records''' = | = '''Catholic Church Records''' = | ||
==Online Records== | ==Online Records== | ||