New York Post July 27, 2015
An Episcopal priest shocked his Queens congregation recently when he left his wife and married someone else — a much younger man.
The Rev. Juan Andres Quevedo-Bosch, 59, the archdeacon of Queens and rector of the Church of the Redeemer in Astoria, announced over Facebook last week that he got married in a Los Angeles church.
The Cuban-born prelate was pictured on a beach with the caption: “I’m in Miami Beach with my new husband. God is good.”
One churchgoer said many parishioners severed ties to the church after Quevedo-Bosch came out as gay at the pulpit a month ago.
“Most of the people aren't coming anymore,” the elderly woman said. “Because he’s homosexual, people have stopped coming.”
But she said Quevedo-Bosch also has supporters among his flock at the church, which holds Spanish-language services for a largely Hispanic congregation.
They started a petition to urge him to stay when he publicly offered to resign, the woman said, adding that she signed the petition.
Quevedo-Bosch has not been seen at the church for the last month, she said.
Attendance has dwindled, she said, with many parishioners instead going to Mass at a satellite church a few blocks away.
Saturday services have been canceled, and only seven worshippers showed up at Wednesday’s Mass.
Some of the faithful remain in the dark. One told The Post that Quevedo-Bosch is “a wonderful husband” to his wife, Adria, 73, and seemed puzzled when told the pastor had married a man.
Quevedo-Bosch’s bio on the church’s Web site still says he “lives with his wife, Adria, enjoys house music and enjoys watching dance break.”
On a different, older Facebook page in his name, he and his wife are pictured in a 2011 photo illustration as Santa and Mrs. Claus standing in front of the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree.
Quevedo-Bosch would not answer any questions about his wife or divorce, and he revealed little about his new union to The Post.
“I am aware that there have been concerns regarding my divorce and subsequent remarriage and have been in touch with my bishop and my congregation about them,” Quevedo-Bosch told The Post.
In a post on Twitter last week, the priest announced that he would be keeping his personal and professional lives separate from now on.
The Episcopal Church consecrated its first openly gay bishop in 2003.
“Priests who wish to enter into same-gender marriage are approved to do so in the Episcopal Church and in the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island,” said Bishop Larry Provenzano, head of the Long Island diocese, which includes Queens.
Provenzano said that he had been in touch with Quevedo-Bosch “as is customary in personal matters that involve divorce and remarriage” and that the priest has his full support.
Before becoming a priest, Quevedo-Bosch worked as an economic planner for the city of Havana in the early 1980s, his LinkedIn page says. He studied to be a priest in his native country.
11 comments:
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Fifty-nine year old Episcopalian Priest dumps seventy-three year old wife for "much younger" gay lover. Great. Does the ex get the rectory? That would seem awkward.
I just think it is great for all of the people who want to get married in a church. There is a nice church for you. It's empty now like most Episcopal churches these days. So why don't they sign up and support the people who support and indulge their lifestyle choices.
Then they can leave the rest of us alone!
And The Blonde thinks there's no difference between the Episcopalians and the Catholics.
Of course, she's from OH and thinks the world is Baptists and Methodists.
The Episcopal church - finally a church for those who don't believe in Christianity.
The Episcopal church - for those who think Unitarians are too fundamentalist.
Gay, Catholic, and a Priest? Well we've got a Church for you!
He probably stays harder longer and shoots bigger loads now. And that's what's most important in life.
Amarite, Titus?
You know this thing... this thing called fidelity... this thing called commitment... those promises you made before God and man? Those?
Fuck em... you're gay. Have a party. Demand people praise you for your selfishness and let you keep on preaching... preaching... preaching...
Certainly not about fidelity. Certainly not about commitment. Certainly not about keeping promises. Certainly not about any icky need to defer your own gratification.
But yeah, sure... people left because you're HOMOSEXUAL. Yup. Uh huh. You betcha.
I was having a discussion with the wife today about Jenner and watched the episode where he basically had a heart to heart with his mother about his 'change' and while I was sympathetic, the other part of my mind was empathetic towards his mother because she is all like, "How the fuck do I deal with this with you? What do i call you. I'm so confused." and it hit me that while Jenner has been hiding his 'condition' for 65 years and now he is a free spirit to explore his new-found gender identity in the public sphere. He still has left a fucking disaster in the wake of the choices he's made with is family. While he's been dealing with this for 65 years, he's now asking the closest people in his life to deconstruct their entire identity of him for 65 years and reconstruct it to his new normal. A selfish, unfair, and cruel request. At it's core, I've finally realized what all of this is. We are gay, conform to us. We are not the gender we are born with, conform and identity to us. It's selfish, cruel, and unfair to drag people through your personal turmoils of identity.
You could see it in Jenner's mothers face, how she feels like she failed, that she blames herself, that he is putting an undue burden on her to force her to see his point of view. Well, you know what? Fuck him and people like him is what I say. Same goes for this priest. Same goes for anyone who pulls this kind of bullshit. Fuck you.
Methadras, you are the Donald Trump of Lem's Levity. I mean that in a good way.
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