The suffragan bishop of Montego Bay, the Rt. Rev. Leon Golding has been elected the 15th bishop of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands in succession to Archbishop Howard Gregory, the primate of the West Indies. Bishop Golding was elected on 24 March 2025 at an elective assembly at St Luke’s Church in Cross Roads. Bishop Golding was the sole candidate on the ballot.

Bishop Golding was ordained deacon and priest in the Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands in 1984, and served his curacy at St Andrew’s Parish Church in Kingson. He subsequently served as rector of St Mary’s Church, then St Andrew’s in Stony Hill, at Kingston Parish Church in Kingston and Holy Trinity Westgate in Montego Bay until his election in 2012 as suffragan bishop of Montego Bay. He has served as the canonical administrator of the diocese since the January 1st retirement of Archbishop Gregory.

Bishop Golding was educated at the United Theological College of the West Indies and earned a Master of Philosophy degree fromthe University of Birmingham. He is married and has three adult children.