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Roger Michael Mahony
Roger Michael Mahony (born February 27, 1936) is an American Catholic retired prelate who served as Archbishop of Los Angeles from 1985 to 2011. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Fresno from 1975 to 1980 and Bishop of Stockton from 1980 to 1985. Born in Los Angeles and raised in the San Fernando Valley, Mahony was ordained to the priesthood in 1962. He was appointed auxiliary bishop of Fresno in January 1975 and consecrated bishop in March 1975. Mahony was then appointed bishop of Stockton in 1980. In 1985, he was appointed archbishop of Los Angeles by Pope John Paul II, and became the first Los Angeles native to hold the office. The pope created Mahony a cardinal in 1991, and he voted in the papal conclaves that elected Popes Benedict XVI and Francis. During his tenure as Los Angeles archbishop, Mahony was instrumental in dividing the archdiocese into five administrative subdivisions and in guiding the construction of the Cathedral of Our Lady ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
His Eminence
His Eminence (abbreviation H.Em. or HE) is a style (manner of address), style of reference for high nobility, still in use in various religious contexts. Catholicism The style remains in use as the official style or standard form of address in reference to a cardinal (Catholicism), cardinal of the Catholic Church, reflecting his status as a Prince of the Church. A longer, and more formal, title is "His [or Your when addressing the cardinal directly] Most Reverend Eminence". Patriarchs of Eastern Catholic Churches who are also cardinals may be addressed as "His Eminence" or by the style particular to Catholic patriarchs, His Beatitude. When the Grand master (order), Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, the head of state of their sovereign territorial state comprising the island of Malta until 1797, who had already been made a Reichsfürst (i.e., prince of the Holy Roman Empire) in 1607, became (in terms of honorary order of precedence, not in the actual churc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Angeles, financial, and Culture of Los Angeles, cultural center of Southern California. With an estimated 3,878,704 residents within the city limits , it is the List of United States cities by population, second-most populous in the United States, behind only New York City. Los Angeles has an Ethnic groups in Los Angeles, ethnically and culturally diverse population, and is the principal city of a Metropolitan statistical areas, metropolitan area of 12.9 million people (2024). Greater Los Angeles, a combined statistical area that includes the Los Angeles and Riverside–San Bernardino metropolitan areas, is a sprawling metropolis of over 18.5 million residents. The majority of the city proper lies in Los Angeles Basin, a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward William Clark
Edward William Clark (born November 30, 1946) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in California from 2001 to 2022. Biography Early life Edward Clark was born on November 30, 1946, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Educated in California, he attended the former Our Lady Queen of Angels Seminary in Mission Hills, Los Angeles, and St. John's Seminary in Camarillo, California. Priesthood Clark was ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles by Archbishop Timothy Manning Timothy Manning (Irish: ''Tadhg Ó Mongáin'') (November 15, 1909 – June 23, 1989) was an Irish Catholics, Irish Catholic prelate who served as Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Archbishop of Los Angeles from 1970 to 1985. He was elev ... on May 9, 1972. After his ordination, Clark was posted as an associate pastor to Saint James Parish in Redondo Beach, California, and Saint Joseph Parish in Pomona, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Eugene Wilkerson
Gerald Eugene Wilkerson (born October 21, 1939) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles from 1997 to 2015 and as apostolic administrator for the Diocese of Monterey for six months in 2018 and 2019. Biography Early life Gerald Wilkerson was born on October 21, 1939, in Des Moines, Iowa. His family later moved to Long Beach, California. He attended St. John’s Seminary in Camarillo, California. Wilkerson was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles on January 5, 1965, by Cardinal James McIntyre. After his ordination, Wilkerson served as associate pastor at three Southern California parishes: * Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Habra * St. Michael in Los Angeles * American Martyrs in Manhattan Beach Wilkerson then was posted for 15 years at Our Lady of Grace Parish in Encino, California, first as administrator and then as pastor. Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles On November 5, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Hugh Niederauer
George Hugh Niederauer (June 14, 1936 – May 2, 2017) was an American bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the Archbishop of San Francisco. Before that, Niederauer served as Bishop of Salt Lake City from 1994 to 2005. Biography George Niederauer was born in Los Angeles, California, the only child of George and Elaine Niederauer. He attended St. Catherine's Military School and then St. Anthony High School; he was a classmate of Cardinal William Levada. After graduating in 1954, he attended Stanford University. During his freshman year Niederauer changed course and decided to enter St. John's Seminary in Camarillo, from where in 1959 he earned a Bachelor of Philosophy degree. He further completed his studies with a Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and a Master of Arts degree in English literature from Loyola University, Los Angeles, in 1962. Niederauer also earned a Ph.D. in English Literature at USC. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabino Zavala
Gabino Zavala (born September 7, 1951) is a Mexican-American Catholic former prelate who served as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles from 1994 until 2012. He resigned at the request of Pope Benedict XVI after admitting he was the father of two children. Biography Early life Born September 7, 1951, in Guerrero, Mexico, Gabino Zavala and his family moved to Tijuana, Mexico, when he was a child. He survived a fire in his family's apartment that killed two of his brothers. The family then moved to East Los Angeles, California. In 1969, Zavala entered St. John's Seminary College in Camarillo, California. Priesthood Zavala was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles at St. Vibiana's Cathedral in Los Angeles on May 28, 1977, by Cardinal Timothy Manning. After his ordination, Zavala served as an associate pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in East Los Angeles and as associate director of the marriage tribunal for the archdiocese. After e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas John Curry
Thomas John Curry (born January 17, 1943) is an Irish-born American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Curry served as an auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Archdiocese of Los Angeles in California from 1994 to 2018. From 1994 to 2013, he was episcopal vicar of the Santa Barbara Pastoral Region of the archdiocese. Curry was forced to resign in 2013 as vicar due to his role in attempting to maintain the secrecy of sexual abuse allegations against priests in the archdiocese. Biography Early life Thomas Curry was born on January 17, 1943, in Drumgoon in County Cavan, in the Republic of Ireland. He attended University College Dublin, graduating in 1963 with a bachelor's degree in history. Priesthood On June 17, 1967, Curry was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop John Joseph Scanlan, John Scanlan in Ireland at All Hallows College for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. After his ordination in 1967, Curry moved to the United States, where he start ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Martin Sartoris
Joseph Martin Sartoris (born July 1, 1927) is an American Catholic prelate who served as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles from 1994 to 2002. Biography Early life Joseph Sartoris was born in Los Angeles, California on July 1, 1927. He studied at St. John's Seminary in Camarillo, California. Priesthood On May 30, 1953, Sartoris was ordained into the priesthood by Cardinal James McIntyre for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. After his ordination, Sartoris was assigned as an associate pastor to several parishes. He then served as a teacher and assistant principal at Bishop Conaty High School in Los Angeles for several years. Sartoris then returned to parish ministry while also serving as administrator pro tempore at Dolores Mission parish and administrator at Nativity Parish, both in Los Angeles. Sartoris' first assignment as pastor was at St. Madeleine Parish in Pomona, California. In 1978, he was named pastor of St. Margaret Mary Parish in Lomita, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Edward Blaire
Stephen Edward Blaire (December 22, 1941 – June 18, 2019) was an American Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Stockton from 1999 to 2018. Biography Early life Stephen Edward Blaire was born in Los Angeles, California, as the twelfth of fourteen children. He attended local Catholic schools in the San Fernando Valley, and graduated from Our Lady Queen of Angels Seminary (high school) in 1959. Blaire then entered St. John's Seminary College in Camarillo. Priesthood He was ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Los Angelese by Cardinal James McIntyre on April 29, 1967, and then served as associate pastor of St. Luke's Parish in Temple City, California, until 1972. From 1972 to 1986, Blaire worked in Catholic secondary education, initially as a teacher and administrator at Bishop Alemany High School in Mission Hills, California and later as vice principal at Bishop Amat High School in La Puente, California. He was principal at Bishop Alemany from 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvester Donovan Ryan
Sylvester Donovan Ryan (born September 3, 1930) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Monterey in California from 1992 to 2007 and as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles from 1990 to 1992. Biography Early life Ryan was born on September 3, 1930, in Avalon, California. On May 3, 1957, Ryan was ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles by Cardinal James McIntyre. An educator, Ryan served as principal of Paraclete High School in Lancaster, California, in the 1960s to June 1971, and Saint Paul High School in Santa Fe Springs, California, in the 1970s. Ryan was named president-rector of the archdiocesan Saint John's College Seminary in Camarillo, California, 1986. Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles On February 17, 1990, Pope John Paul II appointed Ryan as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and titular bishop of Remesiana. Ryan was consecrated at the Cathedral of Sai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Anthony Fisher
Carl Anthony Fisher, SSJ (November 24, 1945 – September 2, 1993) was an African-American Catholic prelate who served as an Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles from 1987 until his death in 1993. He was the first (and as of 2022, the only) Black Catholic bishop on the West Coast. He was a member of the Society of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart, a religious community that serves African Americans. He was the third Josephite to be made a bishop, and as of 2022, the latest. Biography Born in Pascagoula, Mississippi, Fisher attended Epiphany Apostolic College as well as St. Joseph's Seminary, and was ordained to the priesthood for the Society of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart on June 2, 1973. He then served in Baltimore for some time, including at Historic St Francis Xavier Church beginning in 1982. On December 23, 1986, he was appointed titular bishop of Tlos and auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and was consecrated on February 23, 1987. He was the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armando Xavier Ochoa
Armando Xavier Ochoa (born April 9, 1943) is an American Catholic retired prelate who served as Bishop of Fresno (2011 to 2019), Bishop of El Paso (1996 to 2011) and as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles (1986 to 1996). Biography Early life Armando Xavier Ochoa was born on April 9, 1943, in Oxnard, California. The second child of Angel and Mary Ochoa, he attended Santa Clara Elementary School in that city. Ochoa graduated from Santa Clara High School in 1961, then entered St. John's Seminary College in Camarillo, California, in 1962 and later, St. John's Seminary School of Theology in Camarillo. Priesthood Ochoa was ordained into the priesthood by Cardinal Timothy Manning for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles on May 23, 1970. After his ordination, Ochoa was assigned as assistant pastor over time at three parishes in Southern California: * St. Alphonsus in East Los Angeles * St. John the Baptist in Baldwin Park * St. Teresa of Avila in Los Angeles I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
