THETRINITARIANSM OFFICIAL GAZETTE OF THE ANGLICAN CATHOLIC CHURCH / MAY-JUNE 2021 T 6 A A L 4 I D H N T 1 D E G 3 T R T L L E S S E I R . C S E T I N A S L O E A I N R N T T V A , C I I C C R A S E O I T T A R . H E N 8 Q 0 O 1 U L 2 E I 0 S C T E C D H U R C H P e U D r N m . P e S o i n . t n A v P N - e o P r I s o r , t o D C . a 5 f g O i 3 t e 7 7 Fr. Nadeem Yaqoob is received in his orders by Archbishop Haverland. Pictured are (l to r) Archbishop Haverland, Fr. Dennis Demes, Fr.Yaqoob, Fr. Sanford Sears, and Deacon Dan Henderson. A NEW PRO- FINDING CATHEDRAL RISES FOR A HOME THE DIOCESE INTHE ACC OF CONGO s recently as 2013, Sainte t is a long way from Pakistan to Florida, and for the Rev. Trinité Parish (ACC) in Nadeem Yaqoob the journey has been very long indeed. Bakavu, Democratic Re- But when Archbishop Mark Haverland received Fr. public of the Congo, had Yaqoob into the Anglican Catholic Church on St. Valen- A no place to call home. The congregation tine’s Day 2021, it was like a homecoming. owned no land and had to meet in parish- IRaised in the Roman Catholic Church in Pakistan, Fr. ioners’ houses. But a $10,000.00 USD gift Yaqoob’s journey began with his sense of a vocation to the from the St.Paul Mission Society that priesthood. The pursuit of this calling led him to Rome, year began to turn things around. Fr. Nadeem and Rebecca Yaqoob where he received his Licentiate in Sacred Theology from the Bishop Steven Ayule-Milenge was deter- Pontifical Gregorian University. From there, his studies led find it. The Anglicanism of the Canterbury Communion was mined to buy land in Bakavu, a city of him to the Philippines, where he earned a Master’s Degree not an option for him because of its innovations in doctrine and some 800,000 on the eastern border of the in Theology from the St. Monica Institute of Religious practice. DRC, but the initial donation was not Studies. Finally, he met his future wife, Rebecca. She is from a neigh- enough. The bishop made an appeal, and Returning to Rome, he was ordained to the priesthood by boring town in Pakistan, but it took a visit to Rome for them an anonymous donor from the ACC’s Matteo Cardinal Zuppi at the Chiesa di Gesu, the historic home to meet. Meeting Rebecca, and gradually getting to know her Diocese of Australia and New Zea- of the Society of Jesus. Following his ordination, Fr. Yaqoob served better, Fr. Yaqoob began to question the Roman Catholic pro- land provided $43,000.00. This, togeth- as administrator of St. Giacomo Church, and treasurer of the hibition on priests marrying. er with other donations, allowed the pur- International Student House, Augustinian Seminary. After work- Pursuing these threads, he left the Roman Catholic Church, chase of a piece of land in Bakavu. Bishop ing in the heart of Rome, he was appointed pastor of St. Anne and in 2017 he and Rebecca were married. She and her family Steven’s plan was to have a multi-purpose in Marsala, Sicily. lived in Florida, so they moved there and he took a job as an building constructed to allow for worship Even as he settled in to his new life as priest in Italy, though, assistant manager with a medical sales company. In early 2020 and to house a Sewing Training Center three things happened that would spur his journey forward in the couple were in Thailand for a family wedding when the to teach local workers to make clothing, surprising ways. COVID shutdowns hit. Unable to come back directly to the shoes, and belts. First, he found that he was attracted to the traditional forms United States, they travelled to Pakistan and waited there for the The result was a three-story building, the of the Tridentine liturgy. When in Rome, he began attending five months it took to arrange their return. top floor of which housed a nave and chan- the Latin Mass as often as he could. Next, he befriended clergy While waiting in Pakistan, Fr. Yaqoob heard for the first time cel, sacristy, and diocesan offices. Not con- at an Anglican parish near his own in Rome, and he found that of Bishop Mushtaq Andrew and of the ACC’s work there, but tent to rest on his laurels, though, Bishop Solemn Evensong there had much in common with the historic because of travel restrictions no meeting was possible. Upon their Ayule-Milenge had larger plans: to con- faith and practice to which he was becoming more attached. He return to the United States, however, he emailed Archbishop struct a separate building on the site to found himself questioning aspects of contemporary Roman Haverland, and that correspondence began the next phase in their house a larger church and expanded office Catholic practice. journey. space, connected to the existing building, He recalls talking to a friend about the culture of traditional Anglicanism, but was not at that time aware of anywhere he could Please see FINDING A HOME/3 Please see PRO-CATHEDRAL/5 WWW.ANGLICANCATHOLIC.ORG • FACEBOOK.COM/ANGLICANCATHOLICCHURCH 2 THETRINITARIAN MAY-JUNE 2021 METROPOLITAN’S MESSAGE THETRINITARIANSM VOL. XL, NO. 3 MAY-JUNE 2021 PRE-CHRISTIAN VS. THETRINITARIAN, the Official Gazette of the Anglican Catholic Church, was first published in April 1979 as the of- ficial voice of the Diocese of the Holy Trinity. In 1982, it be- POST-CHRISTIAN came a churchwide publication of The Anglican Catholic Church. 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