Fwd: [WATCH News] News of Anglican women bishops

First woman bishop for Cuban church dies

The first woman bishop in the Episcopal Church of Cuba and in the Caribbean, Nerva Cot Aguilera, died on July 10 after a brief battle with severe anemia, the Episcopal News Service (ENS) has reported. She was 71.

Bishop Cot became the first woman Anglican bishop in the developing world when she was consecrated in Havana's Holy Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in June 2007. She retired in 2008 after a ministry in the church that began in 1987 when she became one of the first three Episcopal women priests in Cuba.

"I feel very honoured by my designation," Bishop Cot told the Associated Press shortly after her consecration as suffragan bishop. "It's a historic act that demonstrates women's possibilities."