Respects are to be paid tomorrow in the Anglican Cathedral to George Thomas, the former MP and ordained minister who died last month at the age of 79.

A service in the memory of Dr Thomas starts at 3pm, with “anybody and everybody welcome”, according to the Right Reverend Nicholas Dill, Anglican Bishop of Bermuda.

Michael Dunkley is to address the service, along with David Burt, the Acting Leader of the Opposition, who gave an account at the last sitting of Parliament of Dr Thomas’s life-saving delivery of him as a premature baby.

Bishop Vernon Lambe of the First Church of God will speak to Dr Thomas’s relationship with the broader Christian community, while the eulogy will be delivered by Dr Thomas’s son, George Thomas, Jr.

Former premier Sir John Swan will give a tribute, and Renee Thomas, niece of Dr Thomas, will give a reading.

Bishop Dill, noting that Dr Thomas had also been a member of the Anglican Church, called him “a great encourager” whom he had met through the Holy Trinity Church.

“He was thinking of getting ordained at the same time that I was. Even when I went off to college and then came back, he would call me up out of the blue, wanting to know how I was doing.”

The Right Reverend Carl Williams, interim director of the Holy Trinity Church in Trinidad and Tobago, recalled Dr Thomas from Holy Trinity in Bermuda, near Bailey’s Bay, where he was also a member.

“He was a very spiritual person, a man of all seasons committed to God and to the people who as a medical doctor went beyond the call of duty.”