"Asi lo haremos - We will!" thundered the standing-room-only congregation at Havana's Episcopal Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, when asked if they would accept as Cuba's first bishops suffragan the Revd Canon Nerva Cot Aguilera and Archdeacon Ulises Mario Aguero Prendes.
Episcopalians were part of a thirty-member delegation of the National Council of Churches of Christ (USA) invited to Cuba, 22-28 January 2004. The Rt Revd C Christopher Epting, the Presiding Bishop's Deputy for Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations, and the Revd Susanne Watson Epting, executive director of the North American Association for the Diaconate, represented the Episcopal Church in a consultation with Cuban churches on shared concerns and in celebration of the consecration of the new Greek Orthodox Cathedral of St Nicholas in Havana.
The extraordinary Pastoral Synod convened by the Episcopal Church of Cuba which included delegates from women, young people and men from organised and non-organised missions, said the Church must develop a more communitarian character in order to carry out its mission in the current Cuban ecclesiastical and social context.
