前总统在出席一场圣公会的宗教活动时,提到了第三个县伯比斯县。这篇文章很有意思。
https://op.gov.gy/index.php/2019/07/01/address-of-his-excellency-brigadier-david-granger-president-of-the-cooperative-republic-of-guyana-at-the-180th-anniversary-of-the-all-saints-anglican-church-2019-06-30/ 首先是提到教堂当年设立在伯比斯县,然后说这个地方现在以东伯比斯-科兰太因行政区(第六区)而广为人知,并对第六区概况进行了大幅介绍。
正文:
It was fitting that an edifice such as this would be located in the County of Berbice, now known as the East Berbice-Corentyne region. This is an amazing Region, the country’s third largest with an area of 36,234 km2 – making it bigger than Belgium. It is the only Region with three towns. Its cosmopolitan population of 125, 000 is made up mainly of persons of African, Amerindian and Indian descent and not so long ago New Amsterdam use to have a significant number of Chinese, European and Portuguese residents.译文:
像这样的建筑坐落在伯比斯县,现在被称为东伯比斯-科兰太因行政区,是很合适的。这是一个令人惊叹的地区,面积为36234平方公里,是该国第三大地区,比比利时还大。它是唯一一个有三个城镇的地区。它的人口有12.5万,主要由非洲人、美洲印第安人和印第安人后裔组成。不久以前,新阿姆斯特丹还拥有大量的中国人、欧洲人和葡萄牙人。
然后在回顾这座教堂的发展史时,把东伯比斯-科兰太因行政区、伯比斯县相提并论,感觉第六区应该是在伯比斯县下面的。
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All Saints Church, therefore, erected one year after Emancipation, came at the right time, in the right place and for the right reasons. It was at the epicentre of those changes in East Berbice-Corentyne, the County of Berbice. The Church started as a parish. It did not have its own chapel but shared the use of a building with the Lutherans and, afterwards, with the Presbyterians. The common use of the church building created friction among the Anglican, mainly English and Presbyterian, mainly Scottish, leadership.
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因此,在解放奴隶一年后建立的圣公会来得正是时候。这些变化的中心在东伯比斯-科兰太因、伯比斯县。教会最初是一个教区。它没有自己的礼拜堂,而是与路德教会共用一幢建筑,后来又与长老会教会共用。教堂建筑的普遍使用在以英国人为主的圣公会教徒和以苏格兰人为主的长老会教徒之间产生了摩擦。
然后前总统以自己的成长史为例,说明圣公会对圭亚那的重要影响。这里前总统把三个县的名字都提到了,但县这个通名没有出现。
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Anglican Churches were so ubiquitous, when I was growing up in Essequibo, Berbice and Demerara, that I never had to travel more than 30 minutes from my home to worship. The Church, therefore, is part of a long historical tradition, a wide geographical community and deep social roots.
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当我在埃塞奎博、伯比斯、德默拉拉长大的时候,英国国教教堂无处不在,我从不需要从家到教堂走30分钟以上。因此,教会是一个悠久的历史传统、广泛的地理社区和深厚的社会根源的一部分。