Edward Joseph Gilbert, C.Ss.R., who passed away on October 16, 2025, at the age of 88.
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Archbishop Emeritus Edward Joseph Gilbert, C.Ss.R., who passed away in the early hours of 16 October 2025, at the age of 88. Dominica News Online announced his death on 16 October 2025, “Edward Joseph Gilbert passed in a Redemptorist retirement home in Florida around 11:30 pm last night.”
Archbishop Gilbert, an American-born Redemptorist priest, served the Church for more than five decades. Born on December 26, 1936, in Brooklyn, New York, he was ordained a priest on June 21, 1964.
In 1994, Pope John Paul II appointed him Bishop of Roseau (Dominica), where he led significant pastoral and structural reforms. Later, in 2001, he became Archbishop of Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, serving until his resignation in 2011, which was accepted by Pope Benedict XVI.
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