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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