Church Leaders Against the Revolution in Grenada

This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.

Grenada is remembered internationally for the 1979 revolution that brought the Marxist New Jewel Movement to power and for the American-led invasion that ended it in 1983 after a violent internal party coup, a period during which church leaders, particularly Catholic and Anglican clergy, became some of the most visible domestic critics of the revolutionary government's restrictions on political and civic life. The constitution restored after 1983 guarantees freedom of religion and conscience and establishes no state church, following the same pattern common across the former British Windward and Leeward Islands.

The government subsidizes Grenada's existing denominational schools, run by the Catholic, Anglican, Methodist, Seventh-day Adventist and Mennonite churches, each managed by its own board of directors while drawing on state funds, a continuation of the colonial era arrangement under which church bodies built and ran the island's first schools before the government began operating schools of its own.