Alphonse Gallegos

Alphonse Gallegos in Mary's chasuble

Alphonse Gallegos OAR (born February 20, 1931 in Albuquerque , New Mexico , United States , † October 6, 1991 in Yuba City ) was an American religious and Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in Sacramento .

Life

Alphonse Gallegos joined the Congregation of the Augustinian Recollects in and received on 24 May 1958, the sacrament of Holy Orders . From 1979 he worked in the Diocese of Sacramento, where he headed the Department for Hispanic Affairs .

Pope John Paul II appointed him titular bishop of Sasabe and auxiliary bishop in the Diocese of Sacramento on August 24, 1981 . He was ordained episcopal on November 4th of that year by the Bishop of Sacramento, Francis Anthony Quinn . Co- consecrators were the Archbishop of San Francisco , John Raphael Quinn , and the Archbishop of Santa Fe , Robert Fortune Sanchez .

Gallego died on October 6, 1991 in a car accident. He was first buried in St. Mary Cemetery .

At the request of his religious community, the diocese of Sacramento opened the beatification process for Gallegos on December 4, 2005 . On March 27, 2010, his remains were reburied in a new tomb in Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Sacramento. Pope Francis recognized him with a decree of July 8, 2016, the heroic degree of virtue .

Web links

Commons : Alphonse Gallegos - collection of images, videos and audio files

Entry on Alphonse Gallegos on catholic-hierarchy.org

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Cause for beatification opened for Bishop Alphonse Gallegos ( Memento from December 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
↑ ^a ^b Bishop Gallegos' body will be moved to new tomb in bid for sainthood. (No longer available online.) In: The Catholic Herald. Sacramento Diocese, March 6, 2010, archived from the original July 8, 2016 ; accessed on July 8, 2016 .
^ Promulgazione dei Decreti della Congregazione delle Cause dei Santi. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , July 8, 2016, accessed July 8, 2016 (Italian).

personal data
SURNAME	Gallegos, Alphonse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American Roman Catholic religious, auxiliary bishop in Sacramento
DATE OF BIRTH	February 20, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH	Albuquerque , New Mexico , United States
DATE OF DEATH	October 6, 1991
Place of death	at Yuba City

[beatification-1] Cause for beatification opened for Bishop Alphonse Gallegos ( Memento from December 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

[Grab-2] Bishop Gallegos' body will be moved to new tomb in bid for sainthood. (No longer available online.) In: The Catholic Herald. Sacramento Diocese, March 6, 2010, archived from the original July 8, 2016 ; accessed on July 8, 2016 .

[3] Promulgazione dei Decreti della Congregazione delle Cause dei Santi. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , July 8, 2016, accessed July 8, 2016 (Italian).