23 June 2009

Adventist World
Mark A. Kellner

Queen Knights Jamaica's Adventist Governor-General

Adventist Review magazine reports that Dr Patrick Linton Allen, the first Seventh-day Adventist pastor to serve as governor-general of Jamaica, has been knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.

On February 26, 2009, Sir Patrick became Jamaica's sixth governor-general since the country declared independence in 1962.

For eight years prior to his appointment, he was president of the West Indies region of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Before that he was a church pastor for 19 years.

The ceremony was conducted on June 12 at Buckingham Palace. Sir Patrick is now a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George.

The order is "awarded to men and women of high office, or who render extraordinary or important non-military service in a foreign country," according to the official Web site of the British monarchy.

Photograph taken by Tim Ireland. Used with permission from Associated Press.

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