Nerva Cot Aguilera
Nerva Cot Aguilera was a Cuban Anglican bishop. From 2007 to 2010, she was a suffragan bishop of the Episcopal Church of Cuba. Upon her consecration, she became the first female Anglican bishop in a developing country and in the whole of Latin America, and the first female bishop in the Caribbean.
Ordained ministry
Cot was ordained in the Episcopal Church of Cuba as a priest in 1987. This made her one of the first three women ordained to the priesthood in Cuba.In February 2007, it was announced that Cot was to become a bishop, as one of the newly created suffragan bishops of the Episcopal Church of Cuba; the other was Ulises Mario Aguero Prendes. On June 10, 2007, she was consecrated a bishop during a service at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Havana. This made her the first woman to become an Anglican bishop in the whole of Latin America and in a developing country. She was also the first female bishop in the Caribbean. As one of two suffragan bishop, she responsible for the churches in western Cuba. She retired from full-time ministry in 2008.
On July 10, 2010, Cot died at the age of 71; she had been suffering from severe anemia. Her funeral was held the following day in the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Havana.