Michael Sheehan (archbishop of Santa Fe)

Michael Jarboe Sheehan ( born July 9, 1939 in Wichita, Kansas, United States) is Archbishop of Santa Fe.

Life

Michael Jarboe Sheehan grew up in Texarkana, Texas. He attended St. John's High School Seminary and Assumption Seminary in San Antonio. Sheehan continued his studies in Rome at the Pontifical Gregorian University continued. He received on 12 July 1964, the sacrament of Holy Orders for the Diocese of Dallas -Fort Worth. Michael Jarboe Sheehan acquired in 1965 at the Pontifical Gregorian University, the Licentiate in Catholic theology.

From 1965 to 1968 he was assistant priest in the parish of Immaculate Conception in Tyler, Texas. 1971 Sheehan received his doctorate at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome in Canon Law. From 1971 to 1976 he was assistant general secretary of the U.S. Bishops' Conference. This was followed by Michael Jarboe Sheehan rector of Holy Trinity Seminary in Dallas. In 1982, Sheehan pastor of Immaculate Conception in Grand Prairie.

On March 25, 1983, Pope John Paul II appointed the first bishop of the Diocese of Lubbock erected on the same date. The Archbishop of San Antonio, Patrick Fernández Flores, donated to him on June 17 of the same year the episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were the Bishop of Amarillo, Leroy Theodore Matthiesen, and the Bishop of Dallas, Thomas Ambrose Tschoepe. On April 6, 1993 Michael Jarboe Sheehan was appointed in addition to the Apostolic Administrator of Santa Fe.

Pope John Paul II appointed him on 17 August 1993 as Archbishop of Santa Fe. The official launch took place on 21 September of the same year. From June 18, 2003 to November 25, 2003 Michael Jarboe Sheehan was also Apostolic Administrator of Phoenix.