Donald Sanborn
His Excellency, the Most Reverend Donald Sanborn | |
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Superior General of the Roman Catholic Institute | |
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Ordination | 29 June 1975 by Marcel Lefebvre |
Consecration | 19 June 2002 by Robert McKenna |
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Born | Flushing, New York, U.S. | 19 February 1950
Nationality | American |
Denomination | Sedevacantist/Sedeprivationist |
Alma mater | The International Seminary of Saint Pius X, Écône, Switzerland |
Motto | Sanctifica eos in veritate (Sanctify them in truth [Jn. 17:17]) |
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Spoken style | Your Excellency |
Religious style | Bishop |
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Website | inveritateblog.com |
Donald J. Sanborn (born February 19, 1950) is an American sedevacantist bishop, known for his advocacy of sedevacantism[1] and sedeprivationism.[2][3] He currently serves as the Superior General of the sedevacantist Roman Catholic Institute (RCI) and rector of the sedevacantist Most Holy Trinity Seminary in Brooksville, Florida, United States.[4]
Biography[]
Early years[]
Donald Sanborn was born into a Roman Catholic family in Flushing, Queens, New York, United States.[5] There, he attended Catholic elementary and high schools.[6] He became interested in the Catholic priesthood and entered the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception, but subsequently dropped out.[5]
Priesthood[]
Society of Saint Pius X[]
Becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the effects of the reforms following the Second Vatican Council, Sanborn entered the International Seminary of Saint Pius X, Écône, Switzerland, of the traditionalist Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX).
On 29 June 1975, in Écône, he was ordained a priest by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre of the SSPX.[7] Canonical recognition of the SSPX had been withdrawn by the local Roman Catholic bishop in May 1975, one month prior to his ordination, and this move would later be upheld by the Vatican.[8]
By 1976, Father Sanborn offered the traditional Latin Mass for Catholics on Long Island, New York, United States, together with Father Clarence Kelly.[5][9][10]
Saint Thomas Aquinas Seminary[]
In 1977, Sanborn was teaching at a seminary of the SSPX which was then called Saint Joseph's House of Studies, in Armada, Michigan, United States.[11] Later in the same year, he was appointed Rector of the Seminary.[12][13]
He subsequently began earnestly searching for newer, larger premises. Sanborn launched a fundraising campaign and eventually succeeded in acquiring a former Jesuit retreat house; this would later be renamed Saint Thomas Aquinas Seminary (still operating under the SSPX as of 2019).
Leaving the Society of Saint Pius X, Co-founding and leaving the Society of Saint Pius V[]
Lefebvre directed the SSPX's American priests to follow the 1962 liturgical books. Sanborn and eight other American priests refused to do these. These nine priests accused Lefebvre of being insufficiently traditionalist.[14][15][16] On 27 April 1983, these nine priests, along with some seminarians who were sympathetic to them, were promptly expelled from the SSPX by Lefebvre, for their refusal to use the 1962 Missal and for other reasons, such as their resistance to Lefebvre's order that priests of the SSPX must accept the decrees of nullity handed down by diocesan marriage tribunals, and their disapproval of the SSPX's policy of accepting into the society new members who had been ordained to the priesthood according to the revised sacramental rites of Paul VI. Almost immediately, these priests formed the Society of Saint Pius V[17] (SSPV).[18]
In 1984, Sanborn established the independent Blessed Sacrament Chapel in Martinez, California, United States.
In 1991, Sanborn left the SSPV,[19] in part, like Father Daniel Dolan and Father Anthony Cekada (who both left in 1989), due to the Superior General Kelly's rejection of the validity of sedevacantist bishops consecrated by or in the lineage of Bishop Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục.
Roman Catholic Institute[]
In 1993, Sanborn founded the sedevacantist Roman Catholic Institute (RCI).[20]
Most Holy Trinity Seminary[]
In 1995, Sanborn founded the sedevacantist Most Holy Trinity Seminary in Spring Lake, Florida, United States. In 2005, the seminary was relocated to Brooksville, Florida.[6][14][21][22][23] The seminary is one of very few fully functioning sedevacantist seminaries in the world.[citation needed]
Episcopacy[]
Episcopal consecration[]
On 19 June 2002, in Detroit, Michigan, United States, Sanborn was consecrated a bishop by the American sedeprivationist bishop Robert McKenna, O.P.,[4][24] of the Orthodox Roman Catholic Movement.
Episcopal consecration of Selway[]
On February 22, 2018, Sanborn consecrated his intended successor, Father Joseph Selway, as a bishop, with Bishop Geert Stuyver of the Istituto Mater Boni Consilii and Bishop Daniel Dolan of West Chester, Ohio, United States, assisting as co-consecrators.[25][26][27]
Present day[]
Sanborn currently serves as the Superior General of the Roman Catholic Institute and as the rector of the Most Holy Trinity Seminary in Brooksville, Florida, United States.
He has served as pastor of the independent Queen of All Saints Chapel in Brooksville, Florida.[22][28]
Sanborn frequently travels around the world, offering the traditional Latin Mass and administering the sacrament of Confirmation. He holds conferences in the United States and in Europe promoting sedevacantism.
References[]
- ^ Jarvis, Edward, Sede Vacante: the Life and Legacy of Archbishop Thục, Apocryphile Press, Berkeley CA, 2018, pp. 107-110, 143-144
- ^ Explanation of the Thesis
- ^ "The material Papacy – Sodalitium". www.sodalitiumpianum.com (in Italian). Retrieved 2018-03-07.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Most Holy Trinity Seminary, website – http://www.mostholytrinityseminary.org/bpsanbornbio.html Archived 2016-08-02 at the Wayback Machine [accessed 29 November 2018]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Buggs, Kenneth (9 November 1976). "Ultra traditionalist Catholics Back Suspended Prelate". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Despósito, Nicolás. "Most Holy Trinity Seminary-Bp.Sanborn Bio". www.mostholytrinityseminary.org. Archived from the original on 2016-08-02. Retrieved 2016-12-16.
- ^ Uhlenbrock, Robert W. "Most Rev. Donald J. Sanborn - Biographical Information | Traditional Latin Mass Resources". www.traditionalmass.org. Retrieved 2016-12-16.
- ^ SSPX website https://fsspx.org/en/roman-sanctions [accessed 8 January 2019]
- ^ Lahart, Kevin (16 December 1976). "Where Disaffected Catholics Are Saying It Like It Was". Newsday.
- ^ Robinson, Angela (6 September 1976). "Outside the (church) law". Newsday.
- ^ Sterba, James (11 July 1977). "French Prelate Celebrates Latin Mass in Texas as He Defies Pope". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
- ^ Franklin, James (26 March 1980). "SUSPENDED FRENCH ARCHBISHOP ORDAINS A PRIEST". The Boston Globe.
- ^ Hyer, Marjorie (30 July 1977). "Battling Catholic Church 'Modernism': In the view of many traditionalists, Vatican II has caused a host of church problems, ranging from the defection of large numbers". The Washington Post.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Liberto, Jennifer (18 August 2003). "Seminary wins planners' okay". St. Petersburg Times.
- ^ Sanborn, Donald (October 2007). "Most Holy Trinity Seminary Newsletter" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-05-23.
- ^ "Season 2, Clerical Conversations, Episode 1: "The Nine," 30 Years On..." True Restoration. 2013-03-13. Retrieved 2016-12-16.
- ^ Cuneo, Michael W., The Smoke of Satan: Conservative and Traditionalist Dissent in Contemporary American Catholicism, JHU Press, 1999, p. 96ISBN 9780801862656
- ^ Ruby, Griff. "The Resurrection of the Roman Catholic Church", Chapter Nine, "The Advance of the Sedevacantists".
- ^ Griff Ruby, "The Resurrection of the Roman Catholic Church", Chapter Ten, "The Bishops of Marcel Lefebvre and Antonio de Castro Mayer"
- ^ romancatholicinstitute.org
- ^ Bates, Michael (5 April 2007). "New Seminary Stirring Curiosity". Tampa Tribune.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Bates, Michael (22 April 2007). "A claim to 'true' Catholicism?". Hernando Today.
- ^ Despósito, Father Nicolás. "Most Holy Trinity Seminary-Presentation". mostholytrinityseminary.org. Retrieved 2016-12-17.
- ^ Uhlenbrock, Robert W. "Most Rev. Donald J. Sanborn - Biographical Information | Traditional Latin Mass Resources". www.traditionalmass.org. Retrieved 2016-12-16.
- ^ Jarvis, Edward, Sede Vacante: the Life and Legacy of Archbishop Thục, Apocryphile Press, Berkeley CA, 2018, pp. 107–10, 143–44[ISBN missing]
- ^ "A New Sedevacantist Bishop: Fr. Joseph Selway to be consecrated a Bishop in Spring 2018", Novus Ordo Wire, 19 November 2017.
- ^ Rev. Anthony Cekada. "Consecration of Bp. Selway: Photos". 9 March 2018.
- ^ "Queen Of All Saints Chapel, Inc. in Brooksville, FL | Company Info & Reviews". Bizapedia.com. Retrieved 2019-01-05.
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