Sam Jacobs (bishop)

Sam Gallip Jacobs ( born March 4, 1938 in Greenwood, Missouri, United States) is a retired Bishop of Houma - Thibodaux.

Life

Sam Jacobs grew up in Lake Charles and attended from 1951 to 1957 the Immaculata Seminary in Lafayette. From 1957 to 1964 he studied at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC Catholic theology and philosophy and was then consecrated by Bishop Warren Boudreaux Louis on June 6, 1964 Priests of the Diocese of Lafayette. On January 29, 1980, he was incardinated into the clergy of the newly established Diocese of Lake Charles.

Pope John Paul II appointed him on 1 July 1989 the Bishop of Alexandria. He received his episcopal consecration of the Archbishop of New Orleans, Francis Schulte, on 24 August of the same year; Were co-consecrators Jew Speyer, Bishop of Lake Charles, and Warren Louis Boudreaux, Bishop of Houma - Thibodaux.

On 1 August 2003 he was appointed by John Paul II as Bishop of Houma - Thibodaux; the solemn inauguration ( enthronement ) was held October 10 of the same year.

On September 23, 2013 Francis Pope accepted his resignation age-related.