Bishop Patrick White has had a busy first year as the Bishop of Bermuda.

His day-to-day responsibilities include looking after the parishes and finding priests for the churches who need them.

"It's been a year of big services," he added. "There are a number of big events that I am called upon to either preside at or attend. While I know that in a way, it's one thing to have an idea in your mind, it's another to experience it.

"There was my ordination, then celebrations of the 400th anniversary there were lots of celebration around that. The next thing was at the end of May which was a kick-off for [Anglican church] celebrations. And then the next thing that came up was the visit of the Archbishop of York, John Sentamu."

Rev. Sentamu is the first black Archbishop of York and the second most senior cleric in the Church of England.

"He had the Governor and the Premier sharing bread during the service," Bishop White added.

"Then of course there was Her Majesty's visit. Some of these things you know are going to happen but some you don't. We didn't know that the Queen was coming. There was a great deal of uncertainty.

"These things take up a lot of time and energy and they really throw one into the public eye in a high-profile way. It's been interesting experiencing that. Then there are a lot of things that come with this office. I was there at the blessing of the peppercorn and the prayer of the opening of Parliament."

Bishop White said he is also kept busy by virtue of the church structure.

"There are nine parishes. And then there's the Cathedral. I often wonder what does a bishop of nine parishes do," he said with a laugh.

"My colleagues in Toronto are all looking after one diocese. Each of them has about 50 parishes to look after. So I asked myself: 'What exactly am I going to do?'."

He soon found out.

"This was also the year we had the big services for Nelson Bascome and Albert Jackson two prominent Bermudians who have passed and the Cathedral gets used for those services.

"I suppose the other part of it is my responsibility in seeing that clergy are placed in parishes. When I came into office we were down at least four parish priests.

"A lot of my work is spent on getting them on-board and that means processing them through [the Department of] Immigration. Sometimes it's a little back and forth. If we're going to talk about it in terms of the church being in the public eye, it certainly has been."