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CLERGY:


Rev. Thomas P.

Vander Woude, Pastor
pastor@queenofapostles.org

 

Fr. Vander Woude was Ordained in 1992. This is his fifth parish assignment as a priest. He most recently spent five years in the Northern Neck - off the Potomac River.

 


Rev. Andrew J. Fisher
associatepastor@queenofapostles.org

 

Fr. Andrew Fisher is a native of northern Virginia.
He completed his undergraduate studies at Mount Saint Mary's College, and then attended Mount Saint Mary's Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland.
Fr. Fisher was ordained to the priesthood in 1998. After serving four years as parochial vicar at St. William of York parish in Stafford, Virginia, he served for almost six years as the Director of Liturgy at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington D.C.
 

   
 

Rev. Andrew Amaruma,

in Residence

 

 

Fr Andrew Amaruma, AJ, is from Uganda and was ordained a priest on July, 20, 1996 at Moyo Parish in his home diocese of Arua. He belongs to the Apostles of Jesus Missionary Order. After his ordination, Fr. Andrew was Parochial Vicar of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Arua, Uganda for nine months.  In July, 1997 he was named Pastor until he was transferred in April of 2006. He served his diocese as a dean and within his order at local and national levels as a Zonal Coordinator and Assistant Regional Superior for Uganda. Fr. Andrew is in residence at Queen of Apostles Catholic Church while continuing his studies pursuing a Licentiate of Sacred Theology degree in Marriage and Family at the John Paul II Pontifical Institute for Marriage and Family at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.  

   

Deacon Richard C.

 Caporiccio

 

 

Deacon Caporiccio was ordained April 21, 1989. Originally from Philadelphia, PA, he has been married to Madeline since December 18, 1967 and has four children and two grandchildren. He is a graduate of Bishop Neumann High School, and Penn State University. He holds an MA in Theology from the Notre Dame Graduate School of Christendom College and the Advanced Apostolic Catechetical Diploma from the Holy See. He has served at Our Lady of Lebanon in Washington, DC, Our Lady of the Valley, in Birmingam, Alabama, and Saint Lawrence in Franconia.