From the Anglican Church of Canada
On a warm and windy afternoon, the bishop of Cuba is inspecting tomatoes. Dressed in a crisp purple shirt, she bends into a garden patch and finds a tomato as big as her hand. She weighs it, plucks it, and holds it up—the first fruit of a new crop.
This community garden in Itabo, Cuba, is second home to Bishop Griselda Delgado del Carpio, Cuba’s first female diocesan bishop. Before her installation in November 2010, she led this parish of Santa Maria Virgen for 22 years.
When she first arrived in Itabo, Bishop Delgado found an old church with a leaky roof. Under her leadership, the parish gradually transformed to become a multi-faceted community centre, with dozens of large beds bearing vegetables and herbs, pens of rabbits and chickens, and programs on fruit preservation, gender justice, and more.
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