S. U. Hastings

Selvin Uriah Hastings (26 September 1916 – 19 September 1991)

Early life, education and ministry Bishop Hastings was born in Darliston, Westmoreland, Jamaica. After attending local schools, he trained at St. Colme's Theological College, Kingston, and in the United Kingdom, before serving the Jamaica Province of the Moravian Church at Springfield in St. Elizabeth, Mizpah in Manchester and Church of the Redeemer and Trinity in Kingston. Seedtime and Harvest: A brief history of the Moravian Church in Jamaica, 1754-1979, volume of church denominational history.

Honours He was awarded the Doctor of Divinity degree by Moravian Theological Seminary (1990) and made a Commander of the Order of Distinction (1989).

Private life Commemorative plaque at the Masonic Temple in Barbados Avenue, Kingston, Jamaica. Hastings was married to Pansy, and they had three children.

He was a Freemason, initiated in 1963 in Arawak Lodge No. 6902 (under the jurisdiction of the United Grand Lodge of England) in Kingston, Jamaica. He served as the District Grand Chaplain for the Masonic District of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, and in that capacity he was the dedicating Grand Chaplain of the new Masonic temple in Barbados Avenue, Kingston, on 12 February 1982, assisting Dr Aubrey Jacobs and Major-General Rudolph Green.

Legacy The Moravian Church in Jamaica has established a foundation in his honour.

As part of the church's 250th anniversary celebrations in 2004, the Postal Corporation of Jamaica issued a commemorative stamp featuring Bishop Hastings.

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