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The Reverend
Thomas J. Beckman, MA
Father Beckman attended St. John’s University, Jamaica Queens, N.Y. for a short period of time but decided to enter the military and began his service in the US Navy. Father Beckman was honorably discharged from the Navy in April of 1971, and moved to San Diego eventually attended Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA with an emphasis on education and religious studies and graduated (cum laude) and then continued his education in Religious Studies at San Diego State University and completed his Masters Degree in Education / Counseling at San Diego State University while continuing his secular work and was introduced to Independent Catholicism. He studied theology and liturgy under the mentorship of the local bishop and was ordained deacon and later was ordained to the Priesthood. Father Beckman focused his ministry on healing and proclaiming the reality of the God of love proclaimed in the Christian Scriptures; taking the church into the community, serving an undeserved population. Those marginalized, often discarded, persons that most mainstream organizations could not or would not serve. With permission from his Ordinary, the Most Reverend Rainer Laufers, Presiding Archbishop of the Old Holy Catholic Church based in Canada, Father Beckman was assigned to work with The Most Reverend Thomas E. Abel, DD for the American Catholic Church Diocese of California. As of November of 2007, Father Beckman, Priest in Residence, went on Medical Leave of Absence. |
Thomas
J. Beckman was born in New York City on June 3, 1949 the fourth
of four children born of Henry and Rose Beckman.