Eduardo Sánchez Camacho
Eduardo Sánchez Camacho (born September 17, 1838 in Hermosillo , Sonora , † December 14, 1920 in Ciudad Victoria , Tamaulipas ) was a Catholic bishop in Mexico.
After training in the seminary of Culiacan Sánchez Camacho received the 1860 Low ordinations and 1862 ordination. He followed his home bishop, Pedro Loza y Pardavé , when he was transferred to Guadalajara . At the seminar there, he received his doctorate in theology and worked as a professor. On February 27, 1880 Pope Leo XIII appointed him . to the second Roman Catholic Bishop of Tamaulipas . The episcopal ordination took place on June 29, 1880 in Guadalajara by Archbishop Pedro Loza y Pardavé. From December 1880, Sánchez Camacho worked in Ciudad Victoria (Tamaulipas). In 1882, 1883 and 1885 he sought to reform the diocese and clergy with diocesan synods .
Within the Mexican episcopate, his conduct of life and office aroused offense, his lack of distance from the secular state of Porfirio Díaz and his criticism of the Marian cult of Guadalupe were an offense. The Vatican sent with Nicola Averardi (1843-1924), titular bishop of Tarsus, an apostolic visitor to Mexico, who was supposed to investigate and remedy the situation of the church there, which was judged to be troubling, but ultimately failed. Urged by Averardi, Sánchez Camacho resigned his office as Roman Catholic bishop on May 31, 1896 with the following scandal and retired to the El Olvido estate near Ciudad Victoria . He accompanied contemporary attempts to build a Mexican national church of the Old Catholic type with sympathy, but without undertaking his own episcopal ordinations in Mexico and passing on the Apostolic Succession . The consecration of the American Edward Rufane Benedict Donkin (1871-1906) allegedly made by Sánchez Camacho in 1899 is undocumented and dubious.
Sánchez Camacho died on December 14, 1920 and was buried in the Cero Morelos municipal cemetery in Ciudad Victoria; Bishop Raymundo López Mateos OFM (1932-2000) had the bones transferred to the local cathedral.
Main work
literature
- José Miguel Romero de Solís: Apostasia episcopal en Tamaulipas - In: Historia Mexicana 37.2 (1987) 239-282.
- Flora Lamson Hewlett Library: Rubio, José Antonio: Bishop Eduardo Sánchez Camacho (1838-1920): a dissenting voice in the Mexican church
- Stafford Poole: The Guadalupan Controversies in Mexico . Stanford University Press 2006. ISBN 9780804752527 .
Web links
- Entry on catholic-hierarchy.org
- Sánchez Camacho, Eduardo. Obispo de Tamaulipas. ( Memento from May 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
References and comments
- ^ Robert Angus Jones: The Complete Apostolic Succession . 13th edition 2013, p. 80. (PDF; 777 kB)
- ^ Eduardo Sánchez Camacho ¡El Obispo del Diablo! está en Catedral , janambre.com.mx, June 12, 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sánchez Camacho, Eduardo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bishop of Ciudad Victoria-Tamaulipas |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 17, 1838 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hermosillo |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 14, 1920 |
| Place of death | Ciudad Victoria |