HUNDREDS OF people turned out on Sunday to witness the installation of The Most Reverend Lawrence Burke, S.J.,D.D., as the new Archbishop of Kingston, at the Holy Trinity Cathedral, North Street, central Kingston.
Among those attending the service were Governor-General Sir Howard Cooke, Ministers of the Government, former Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham of the Bahamas, and Frank Watson, a former deputy prime minister of the Bahamas.
Archbishop Burke said he was happy at his appointment and asked for the support of the church in doing his duties.
"Whatever your expectations are of my leadership, we will achieve them only if we share our goals and work together to achieve them, because you are the church," he said.
Archbishop Burke succeeds Archbishop Edgerton Clarke, who retired recently.
Representative from the Antilles Episcopal Conference and the Jamaica Council of Churches expressed their support for the new Archbishop and pledged to work with him.
Archbishop Burke, now 62, has been in the clergy since 1964 when he was ordained a priest. He was appointed First Metropolitan Bishop of Nassau, capital of the Bahamas, in 1999.
