The Bishop of Belize has been elected archbishop and primate of the Church of the Province of the West Indies. Meeting today at the Breezes Resort, Cable Beach in Nassau,The Bahamas, the Rt. Rev. Philip Wright was elected by the 42nd Triennial Provincial Synod. Bishop Wright, the senior bishop in the province, becomes the second primate from Belize following the Rt. Rev.  Edward Arthur Dunn of British Honduras who served as archbishop from 1936 to 1943. The nine-diocese provinces extends from Guyana to The Bahamas to Belize – encompassing the English speaking dioceses of Central and South America and the British Caribbean.

Born in 1967, Philip Silvin Wright trained for the ministry at Codrington College, Barbados and graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Theology from the University of the West Indies and a Diploma in Ministerial Studies.

Ordained a deacon and a priest at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Baptist in Belize City, Bishop Wright worked primarily in the pastoral ministry in various districts in Belize, including as priest in charge of St. John’s Cathedral, before earning a Masters of Arts Degree in Theology (Mission Studies) from the University of Birmingham.

Bishop Wright left parish ministry to head the Anglican Theological Institute (ATI). Bishop Wright has served on several boards and committees, including the National Commission for Good Governance, the Board of Governors of the University of Belize, the National Committee for Families and Children, and the Community Rehabilitation Department.

In October 2005, upon election by the House of Bishops of the Province of the West Indies, under the leadership of Archbishop Drexel Gomez of the Bahamas, Bishop Wright was chosen to serve as the 14th Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Belize. He is now the senior bishop in the Church in the Province of the West Indies.

Bishop Wright was elected the 14th BIshop of Belize in October 2005 and consecrated in November in Belize City. He is concurrently President of the Belize Council of Churches. The provincial synod began on Sunday 9 November 2025 and concludes Thursday the 13th.

The election of Wright, a protege of the late Archbishop Drexel Gomez, will likely move the province back into the orbit of the Global South Fellowship of Anglicans and GAFCON.