Bishop Calvin Wendell Bess (11th Bishop in Office 2001 – 2011)
Bishop Calvin Wendell Bess (11th Bishop in Office 2001 – 2011)

Calvin Wendell Bess is a former Bishop of Trinidad and Tobago.

Educated at Codrington College, Barbados, he was ordained in 1966 and began his ecclesiastical career with a curacies at Scarboro Tobago and Holy Trinity Cathedral in Port of Spain. Next he was Priest in charge at Priest in Charge of St. Patrick’s Church in Mt. Pleasant on Tobago before returning to Trinidad St. Paul’s Church, San Fernando and then Holy Cross Church, Marabella, before his elevation to the Episcopate in 2001, a position he still holds.

Preceded by: Bishop Rawle Douglin

Succeeded by: Bishop Claude Berkley