Guy Sansaricq

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Guy Sansaricq (born October 6, 1934 in Jérémie , Haiti ) is auxiliary bishop emeritus in Brooklyn .

Life

Guy Sansaricq grew up in his hometown and attended the minor seminary in Jérémie. He then studied philosophy and theology in Ottawa . On May 28, 1960, he was ordained priest for the diocese of Les Cayes and was then vicar of the cathedral parish of Notre-Dame de l'Assomption in Les Cayes .

Pastoral minister for Haitian Catholics in the Bahamas

As early as 1961, the Bishop of Les Cayes, Jean Louis Collignan OMI , sent the young priest at the request of the Bishop of Nassau , Paul Leonard Hagarty OSB , as a pastor for the Haitians in the Bahamas. There Père Sansaricq fought for the rights of his "undocumented", i. H. Compatriots living there without a residence permit and working for poor wages. It was not least thanks to his energetic protest that the raids, during which the police cordoned off entire neighborhoods in Nassau in search of “illegal” Haitians, were abolished in 1965. Père Sansaricq also made no secret of his opposition to François Duvalier , the dictator of his home country. Duvalier accused him of preparing an overthrow in Haiti from the Bahamas. Under pressure from Duvalier, Sansaricq had to leave the Bahamas in 1968. He then went to Rome, studied at the Gregorian and obtained his master's degree in social sciences in 1971.

Pastor for Haitian Catholics in the United States

That same year, 1971, Sansaricq was given the pastoral care of the Haitians living in the Brooklyn diocese. At the same time he was pastor in the Cambria Heights district until 1993 and in the Flatbush district from 1993 . In 1988 the Bishops' Conference of the United States also commissioned him to lead the National Center of the Haitian Apostolate / Creole : Sant Nasyonal Apostola Ayisyen (SNAA), d. H. with the coordination of the pastoral care for the Catholic Haitians in the USA. John Paul II named him Titular Bishop of Glenndálocha and Auxiliary Bishop in Brooklyn on June 6, 2006 . He was episcopal ordained by the Bishop of Brooklyn, Nicholas Anthony DiMarzio , on August 22 of the same year; Co-consecrators were Thomas Vose Daily , Former Bishop of Brooklyn, and Ignatius Anthony Catanello , Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn.

On October 6, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI. his age-related retirement.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Colman Barry: Upon these rocks. Catholics in the Bahamas . St. John's Abbey Press, Collegeville 1973. ISBN 0-8146-0812-4 . P. 522.
  2. ^ Colman Barry: Upon these rocks . P. 528.
  3. ^ Colman Barry: Upon these rocks . P. 523.
  4. ^ The National Black Catholic Congress: Retired Auxiliary Bishop Guy A. Sansaricq ( Memento of the original of April 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 18, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nbccongress.org
  5. ^ Marlène Rigaud Apollon: Nassau, Bahamas à Brooklyn, New York, 1961–2011. L'admirable apostolat de HE Guy Sansaricq, premier évêque Haitiano-Américain de la Diapora . In: Weekly Bulletin of The National Center of the Haitian Apostolate , August 21th - August 28th, 2011 (French).
  6. ↑ Guy Sansaricq: History of the Apostolate, past to current , accessed August 18, 2014.

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SURNAME Sansaricq, Guy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sansaricq, Guy A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American clergyman, auxiliary bishop emeritus in Brooklyn
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Jérémie (Haiti)