He said he has also tried to get to know more about the needs of some of the church’ s ministries including its outreach to the homeless and to Latino and Black communities.
McLoughlin was ordained in the Episcopal Church in 2005. He earned a master’ s degree in Divinity from Virginia Theological Seminary and a bachelor’ s degree from the University of Central Florida.
While serving the church is now his passion, a career as a priest was not McLoughlin’ s first calling in life.
He spent several years working in the criminal justice field serving as a sheriff’ s deputy in Florida and in the U. S. Department of Justice in Washington, D. C. He served in various capacities in the Justice Department, most recently as the special assistant / senior advisor to the Assistant Attorney General.
McLoughlin and his wife have two children, Alexander, 17, and Alyson, 14. Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, McLoughlin is bilingual, enjoys music, playing the drums, and studying 18th century American history.
Raised as a High Church Anglican, The Most Revd Paul Shishir Sarker originally studied at the University of Dhaka, with the purpose of becoming a Bengali Literature teacher.
He felt the call to ministry at university and he decided to pursue religious studies after finishing his degree. He first studied at the Bishop ' s College, in Calcutta, India, later moving to the United States, where he earned a M. Div. degree at Louisville Presbyterian Seminary, in Kentucky. After being ordained an Anglican priest, he was elected bishop of the Church of Bangladesh in 2002, and nominated Bishop in the Diocese of Kushtia, in January 2003. He was elected Moderator of the Church of Bangladesh in 2007, and translated to the Diocese of Dhaka, in October 2009, upon the retirement of the titular bishop, Michael Baroi. [ 1 ]
Sarker attended a Anglican Church in North America meeting on 13-15 May 2017, at Holy Cross Cathedral, in Loganville, Georgia, where he and Archbishop Foley Beach, of the ACNA, signed " A Joint Statement on Communion from the Primate of Bangladesh and the Primate of the Anglican Church ", to affirm and celebrate the communion between both churches.
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