Episcopal Diocese of the Dominican Republic Episcopal Diocese of the Dominican Republic The Episcopal Diocese of the Dominican Republic () is the diocese of the Anglican Communion which covers all of the Dominican Republic. It is a member of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America and it is in Province IX. Its see city is Santo Domingo, and its cathedral is the Cathedral of the Epiphany. Benjamin Isaac Wilson, a teacher of the Christian faith, brought Anglicanism to the Dominican Republic in 1897 when he immigrated from the Virgin Islands. Wilson was ordained a priest the following year by James Theodore Holly, bishop
Women in the Dominican Republic the reason is that most women tend to wear skirts instead of Jean either because of religious beliefs or do to culture. Women in the Dominican Republic have an average life expectancy of 72 years. Women who live in the rural areas of the Dominican Republic usually engage themselves in the manufacture of "macramé" hammocks, bags, baskets, products of palm weaving, and the creation of jewelry using coral, seashells, amber, and the semiprecious ocean-blue gemstone known as larimar (a gemstone that is native only in the country). Women in the Dominican Republic Women in the Dominican Republic have equal constitutional