Manuel Duran Moreno (November 27, 1930 – November 17, 2006) was an

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of the

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. He was the sixth Bishop of Tucson.

Biography

Bishop Moreno was born in

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, to Antonio and Enedina Moreno. His father was a worker in the citrus and walnut groves that surrounded Placentia and nearby Fullerton, and young Manuel often worked with him in the groves. Bishop Moreno graduated from Fullerton Junior College and

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where, in 1953, he received a degree in business administration. It was during his years at UCLA that he began to consider the possibility of becoming a priest of the Roman Catholic Church. After graduation, instead of beginning a business career, he began preparation for the vocation of the priesthood, entering

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. He completed his preparation and studies at St. John’s Seminary in

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, and was ordained on April 25, 1961. As a new priest, he continued his studies at the graduate division of the North American College in Rome and then returned to Los Angeles for his first parish assignment. On December 20, 1976,

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named Moreno an auxiliary bishop of

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, and on February 17, 1977, he was consecrated by Cardinal Timothy Manning. On January 12, 1982,

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appointed him Bishop of Tucson. On October 30, 2001,

appointed

Gerald F. Kicanas Gerald Frederick Kicanas (born August 18, 1941) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson, Diocese of Tucson in Arizona from 2002 to 2017. He served as the apostolic admini ...

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of Tucson, and Kicanas succeeded Moreno when he resigned as bishop in March 2003. Moreno died on November 17, 2006, at his Tucson home where he had been receiving hospice care.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Moreno, Manuel Duran 1930 births Roman Catholic bishops of Tucson University of California, Los Angeles alumni People from Placentia, California 2006 deaths Catholics from California 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the United States