Antigua
Antigua
Caribbean islands between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, east-southeast of Puerto Rico . The Siboney were the first inhabitants the islands of Antigua and Barbuda in 2400 B.C. Arawak and Carib Indians lived there when Columbus landed on his second voyage in 1493. Early settlements by the Spanish and French were succeeded by the English who formed a colony in 1667. Slavery was established to run the sugar plantations on Antigua, but was abolished in 1834. The islands became an independent state within the British Commonwealth of Nations in 1981. The population is primarily Christian, but only a small percentage are Catholic. Ecclesiastically Antigua is governed by the Nunciature to Antigua and Barbuda. See also,
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Antigua
a British West India island, of the Leeward group, which in 1848 had a population of 36,190 souls. It is the see of a bishop of the Church of England, whose diocese comprises, beyond Antigua, the British islands of St. Christopher’s (population in 1848 23,127), Nevis (population in 1851 10,200), Barbuda (population 600), Montserrat (population in 1850 7800), Dominica (population in 1842 18,291), Tortola (population in 1844 6689), Anguilla (population in 1844 2934), and the Danish islands St. Croix (population in 1850 23,720) and St. Thomas (population 13,666). The diocese had, in 1859, twenty-seven clergymen in the British islands (including two archdeacons) and three in the Danish islands. See Clergy List for 1860 (Lond. 1860, 8vo). SEE AMERICA.