The Diocese of Cuba soon will have a female bishop. The Rev. Canon Nerva Cot Aguilera, 69, was named bishop suffragan on Sunday, Feb. 4, during a service in Mantazas, according to Associated Press. She will serve in the western part of Cuba. The Rev. Ulises Mario Aguiera Prendes will become bishop suffragan in the east.

Bishop-elect Aguilera was ordained to the priesthood in 1987 following a career as a secondary school teacher. She is married to the Very Rev. Juan Ramon de la Paz Cerezo, dean of Holy Trinity Cathedral, Havana. They have a son and a daughter who are priests and another daughter who is a church administrator.

The bishops suffragan will be consecrated in Havana June 10.

The church in Cuba operates under a Metropolitan Council comprised of the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, the Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, and the Archbishop of the West Indies.

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