FATHER Salvador Anonuevo is a pastor of Holy Name of Mary Parish in Bedford and Resurrection Parish in Moneta,. Both parishes are in the state of Virginia.
He has called Virginia -- a state with a large Filipino population -- home for the past 10 years.
For Father Anonuevo serving God has been a blessing. Having served in the Philippines, New York, and now, Virginia, Anonuevo told the Virginian Pilot that there are no borders in the universal church of Jesus Christ.
“I’m not here as a Filipino priest serving an American community,” he told the Virginian Pilot. “I am here as a Catholic priest serving a Catholic Christian community. It doesn’t matter where you were ordained or what your nationality is. I am simply a Catholic priest.”
Ordained in 1986, Anonuevo served in the Philippines for 11 years before becoming a foreign missionary priest. He came to the US in 1997 and trained in radio and TV productions at Hallel Institute of Communications in New York. At the same time, he served as chaplain of the Sparkill Dominicans and later served as parochial vicar at St. Margaret Church in Pearl River, NY.
After four years, Anonuevo came to the Diocese of Richmond and served as a parochial vicar at Holy Spirit, Virginia Beach, according to his bio.
Father Anonuevo has worn many hats for the Diocese of Richmond. He was an administrator of Sacred Heart church and parochial vicar of St. Pius X, in Norfolk, while at the same time being administrator of St. Luke, Virginia Beach.
He was named pastor of St. Luke in March 2003 and served there until June 30, 2009, and simultaneously was pastor of Holy Spirit, Virginia Beach, according to his bio. He has been at his current assignments in Bedford and Moneta since July 2009.
The 51-year-old Anonuevo grew up in Luzon,
In an interview with the Virginian Pilot, Anonuevo said he knew at an early age going to church and watching the local priests perform their sermons that he would become a priest someday.
“He [the priests] had the kind of life I wanted: to serve people, preaching and reading God’s word as an official minister of the Catholic Church,” Anonuevo said.
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