Robert Fortune Sanchez

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Robert Fortune Sanchez (born March 20, 1934 in Socorro , New Mexico , † January 20, 2012 in Albuquerque , New Mexico) was an American clergyman and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Santa Fe . He was the first bishop of Hispanic descent in the United States.

Life

Robert Fortune Sanchez grew up in Socorro, New Mexico, where he attended Mount Carmel Catholic School and Socorro High School. He first studied at St. Mary's High School in Phoenix, Arizona , but then entered the Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary in Santa Fe, New Mexico and studied at St. Michael's College (later the College of Santa Fe). After completing his studies in philosophy and theology at the Pontifical North America College in Rome , he was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Santa Fe on December 20, 1959 by Bishop Martin J. O'Connor . He was a pastor and teacher in Albuquerque and completed postgraduate studies at the University of New Mexico (Didactics, 1964) and the Catholic University of America (Canon Law). In 1965 he became diocesan director for the laity. In 1968 he was called to the New Mexico Council of Churches' Institutional Ministry. After further administrative tasks and pastoral work, he became vicar general of the archdiocese.

Pope Paul VI appointed him on June 1, 1974 Archbishop of Santa Fe. He was ordained bishop in the presence of 14,000 believers by the Apostolic Delegate to the United States of America , Jean Jadot , on July 25, 1974; Co-consecrators were James Peter Davis , emeritus archbishop of Santa Fe, and Patrick Flores , auxiliary bishop in San Antonio . He was the initiator of the first diocesan youth conference. He was the first Hispanic in the liturgy and ecumenical commission of the US Bishops' Conference and numerous other institutions. Pope John Paul II appointed him a member of the Commission on Migration. He was committed to the topic of HIV / AIDS.

He resigned on March 19, 1993 after confessing that he had sexual relations with at least five young women in New Mexico in the 1970s and 1980s. He was also accused of tolerating the sexual abuse of children by priests in his diocese.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Former Archbishop Robert Sanchez Dies ( Memento of March 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b Celine B. Radigan: Death of Archbishop Robert Fortune Sanchez ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 291 kB), January 20, 2012
  3. ↑ Bishops Who Quit Amid Sexual Scandals . In: New York Times, December 15, 2002.
  4. ↑ sex scandals strike at highest level of US Catholic Church . In: The Boston Globe , 2004 (part of the series Abuse in the Catholic Church )
  5. ↑ Bruce Daniels: Sanchez Kept Abuse Quiet: He shielded pedophile priests while wrestling with his own demons over his affairs with women . In: Albuquerque Journal, September 19, 1996.
  6. ^ "The Secrets of Archbishop Sanchez" with the published interrogation protocols of Sanchez from 1994 ( Memento of November 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
predecessor Office successor
James Peter Davis Archbishop of Santa Fe
1974–1993 		Michael Jarboe Sheehan
personal data
SURNAME Fortune Sanchez, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American clergyman, Archbishop of Santa Fe
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Socorro
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 2012
Place of death Albuquerque