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=='''Anglican (Episcopal) Church Records'''== | |||
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*[https://www.google.com/maps/search/Anglican+Church+Belize/@17.6902488,-89.1899475,9z/data=!3m1!4b1 '''Google Maps search results for Anglican churches in Belize'''] | |||
===Historical Background=== | |||
he Anglican Diocese of Belize was established in 1883.[1] The current bishop is Philip Wright. Established in 1883 as a member of the Church of the Province of the West Indies, the Diocese of Belize now comprises 31 churches spread throughout the country, and is engaged in missionary outreach on a national and international scale. In partnership with the government, it also operates 20 schools across the country of Belize.<ref> Wikipedia contributors, "Anglican Diocese of Belize", in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia,'' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglican_Diocese_of_Belize, accessed 20 March 2020. </ref> | |||
=='''Baptist Church Records'''== | |||
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*[https://www.google.com/maps/search/Baptist+Church+Belize/@17.6886615,-89.19271,9z/data=!3m1!4b1 '''Google Maps search results for Baptist churches in Belize'''] | |||
== '''Catholic Church Records''' == | == '''Catholic Church Records''' == | ||
===Writing to a Local Parish=== | ===Writing to a Local Parish=== | ||
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Total Church Membership: 5,429. Congregations: 12.<br> | Total Church Membership: 5,429. Congregations: 12.<br> | ||
Missionary work opened in Belize on 5 May 1980, when President Samuel Flores of the Honduras Tegucigalpa Mission and Elder Robert Henke arrived to prepare for 10 additional missionaries coming the following day. On the day of their arrival, Elder Merlin Mikkelson was made president of a newly organized branch (a small congregation), and the first Sunday meeting was held 11 May, 1980. The Belize District was organized in 1983. Meetinghouses were completed in Orange Walk and San Ignacio in 1987. By 1987 some 1,000 members in seven branches comprised the Belize District. In 1990 the Honduras Tegucigalpa Mission was divided, and Belize was placed in the Honduras San Pedro Sula Mission. It is now part of the El Salvador San Salvador West/Belize Mission. <ref> The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Facts and Statistics: Belize, https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/facts-and-statistics/country/Belize, accessed 20 March 2020.</ref> | Missionary work opened in Belize on 5 May 1980, when President Samuel Flores of the Honduras Tegucigalpa Mission and Elder Robert Henke arrived to prepare for 10 additional missionaries coming the following day. On the day of their arrival, Elder Merlin Mikkelson was made president of a newly organized branch (a small congregation), and the first Sunday meeting was held 11 May, 1980. The Belize District was organized in 1983. Meetinghouses were completed in Orange Walk and San Ignacio in 1987. By 1987 some 1,000 members in seven branches comprised the Belize District. In 1990 the Honduras Tegucigalpa Mission was divided, and Belize was placed in the Honduras San Pedro Sula Mission. It is now part of the El Salvador San Salvador West/Belize Mission. <ref> The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Facts and Statistics: Belize, https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/facts-and-statistics/country/Belize, accessed 20 March 2020.</ref> | ||
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===Writing for Records=== | ===Writing for Records=== | ||
*[https://www.google.com/maps/search/ | *[https://www.google.com/maps/search/mennonite+Church+Belize/@17.3577715,-88.8224626,10z/data=!3m1!4b1 '''Google Maps search results for Mennonite churches in Belize'''] | ||
===Historical Background=== | ===Historical Background=== | ||
Mennonites in Belize form different religious bodies and come from different ethnic backgrounds. There are groups of Mennonites living in Belize who are quite traditional and conservative (e. g. in Shipyard and Upper Barton Creek), while others have modernized to various degrees (e. g. in Spanish Lookout and Blue Creek). There were 4,961 members as of 2014, but the total number including children and young unbaptized adults was around 12,000. Of these some 10,000 were ethnic Mennonites, most of them Russian Mennonites, who speak Plautdietsch, a Low German dialect. In addition to this, there were another 2,000 mostly Kriol and Mestizo Belizeans who had converted to Mennonitism. | |||
The Friesian and Flemish ancestors of the vast majority of Belizean Mennonites settled in the Vistula delta, starting in the middle of the 16th century and migrated to southern Russia between 1789 and the early 1800s, settling the Chortitza and Molotschna Mennonite colonies. During the years in Russia they became an ethnoreligious group. | |||
In the years after 1873, some 11,000 of them left the Russian Empire and settled in Manitoba, Canada and an equal number went to the US. The more conservative ones left Canada between 1922 and 1925 and settled in Mexico. In the years after 1958, some 1,700 Mennonites from the Mexican settlements moved to what was then British Honduras. | |||
The Russian Mennonites speak Plautdietsch in everyday life among themselves. There are also some hundred Pennsylvania German-speaking Old Order Mennonites who came from the USA and Canada in the late 1960s and settle now in Upper Barton Creek and daughter settlements. | |||
Mennonites from El Salvador moved to Belize during their civil war.<ref> Wikipedia contributors, "Mennonites in Belize", in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia,'' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mennonites_in_Belize, accessed 20 March 2020. </ref><br> | |||
==''' | =='''Methodist Church Records'''== | ||
===Writing for Records=== | ===Writing for Records=== | ||
*[https://www.google.com/maps/search/ | *[https://www.google.com/maps/place/Wesley+Methodist+Church/@17.4912029,-88.1903395,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x8f5c583e25831c45:0x8b7d886933a7b00f!8m2!3d17.4912029!4d-88.1881454 '''Google Maps search results for Methodist churches in Belize'''] | ||
===Historical Background=== | |||
=='''Nazarene Church Records'''== | |||
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*[https://www.google.com/maps/search/Nazarene+Church+Belize/@17.3787522,-88.7578795,10z/data=!3m1!4b1 '''Google Maps search results for Nazarene churches in Belize'''] | |||
===Historical Background=== | |||
=='''Orthodox Church Records'''== | =='''Orthodox Church Records'''== | ||
===Writing for Records=== | ===Writing for Records=== | ||
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The Orthodox Church in Belize was established in the year 1993 by Rev. Father Daniel J. Gorham and Rev. Father Joseph T. Magnin. | The Orthodox Church in Belize was established in the year 1993 by Rev. Father Daniel J. Gorham and Rev. Father Joseph T. Magnin. | ||
=='''Pentecostal Church Records'''== | =='''Pentecostal Church Records'''== | ||