No Establishment in the First English Colony: Saint Kitts and Nevis

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

The constitution guarantees freedom of religion and conscience and establishes no state church, consistent with the pattern across the former British Leeward Islands, even though the Anglican Church's presence here is older than in almost any other Caribbean territory. Saint Kitts and Nevis has never concluded a concordat with the Holy See, and the earliest documented papal representative to the country was appointed only in 1999, later than the Holy See's missions to most of its Eastern Caribbean neighbors, with the title of nuncio held, as elsewhere in the region, by the prelate serving Trinidad and Tobago.

Saint Kitts and Nevis has more recently become known internationally as the origin of the modern citizenship-by-investment industry, a program the country pioneered in 1984 that has since been copied by several of its Caribbean neighbors, a purely secular innovation that sits alongside, rather than displacing, the country's much older Anglican-founded religious institutions.