The Roman Catholic Mission Sui Iuris of Turks and Caicos is a mission sui iuris

Mission sui iuris

A mission sui iuris, or in Latin missio sui iuris, also known as an independent mission, is a rare type of Roman Catholic missionary pseudo-diocesan jurisdiction in an area with very few Catholics, often desolate or remote....

 of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church

Roman Catholic Church

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 in the Caribbean

Caribbean

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. The mission encompasses the entirety of the British

British overseas territories

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 dependency of Turks and Caicos. The mission is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Nassau

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nassau

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 and a member of the Antilles Episcopal Conference

Antilles Episcopal Conference

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The mission of Turks and Caicos was erected from the Archdiocese of Nassau on 10 June 1984. It was initially attached to the Archdiocese of Nassau, with the Archbishop of Nassau serving as the supperior and staffed by priests from the Bahamas

The Bahamas

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. However, in 1998, administration was transferred to the Archdiocese of Newark

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark

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 in the United States

United States

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. The Archbishop of Newark is the superior of the mission. The archbishop appoints a vicar general

Vicar general

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 and priests from Newark to serve in the parishes of the mission.

Ordinaries

1. Lawrence Aloysius Burke
   Lawrence Aloysius Burke
   Lawrence Aloysius Burke S.J. was the 4th Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kingston in Jamaica. He also served previously as the 1st Archbishop of the newly created Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nassau beginning in 1999.Born in Kingston, Jamaica, he was ordained as a...
   
    S.J. (1984–1998)
2. Theodore Edgar McCarrick (1998–2000)
3. John Joseph Myers (2001–)