Background
Thomas was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on July 25, 1926.
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Thomas was enrolled in the Methodist Day School in Road Town and as a teenager attended Charlotte Amalie High School, Saint Thomas, where he graduated in 1945. In 1945, he enrolled in the College of Pharmacy at Howard University in Washington, District of Columbia, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1950.
Career
His family had lived in Tortola, British Virgin Islands, and returned there in 1934. Following his graduation, Thomas served as a Clerk of the Municipal Homestead Commission and Clerk of the Adult Evening School in Saint Thomas. After qualifying as a registered pharmacist in Detroit, Michigan he joined the United States Army and was assigned to FranMort-Hoechst and to Munich.
After returning to the Virgin Islands, he became a pharmacist in Saint Thomas.
From 1954-1959, Thomas worked as a pharmacist with the Veterans Administration in Erie, Pennsylvania, where he also studied part-time at Gannon College, majoring in Business Administration. He began his studies for the priesthood in 1982 at Saint Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary in Boynton Beach, Florida.
He was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Saint Thomas in the Virgin Islands on June 6, 1986, and was appointed Episcopal Vicar for the diocese and Pastor of Holy Family Church. Thomas served as pastor of Saint Ann"s Church on Saint Croix, pastor of Holy Family Church, Dean of the Diocese and the Vicar General.
The Diocesan Consulters of the Diocese of Saint Thomas unanimously elected Thomas to serve as Diocesan Administrator, a post he filled from August 11, 1992 until he was named as the Third Bishop of the Virgin Islands on October 30, 1993.
He was consecrated and installed at the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Saint Thomas on December 12, 1993. He Thomas resigned in June 1999.
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