Fr. Maingot is a Trappist monk of the Monastery of Kokoubou (Benin). His interest in the work of J.-H. Newman began with ecumenical encounters he experienced in the Holy Land, 50 years ago, when he came first as a pilgrim. Then he joined the Trappist monastery of Bellefontaine in France. During his theological studies, he focused his research on John Henry Newman.
In 2017, Fr. Maingot returned to the Holy Land in the Trappist community of Latroun. There, he discovered how the creation of the Anglican bishopric of Jersualem, first located at Christ Church, had played a tremendous role in Newman’s conversion to Catholicism, and how this bishopric was instrumental for the history of the local Church of Jerusalem.
After Newman’s canonisation in 2019, Fr. Maingot gave a lecture to his community of Latroun on Newman and the “affair of the bishopric of Jerusalem”. This “Tuesdays at Tantur’s” lecture is an extended version of this work.