Eusebius Joseph Beltran
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His Excellency, The Most Reverend Eusebius Joseph Beltran |
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| Archbishop Emeritus of Oklahoma City | |
| Archdiocese | Oklahoma City |
| Appointed | November 24, 1992 |
| Installed | January 22, 1993 |
| Term ended | December 16, 2010 |
| Predecessor | Charles Alexander K. Salatka |
| Successor | Paul Stagg Coakley |
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| Ordination | May 14, 1960 |
| Consecration | April 20, 1978 by Charles Salatka, Thomas Andrew Donnellan, and Andrew Joseph McDonald |
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| Born |
August 31, 1934 Ashley, Pennsylvania |
| Previous post | Bishop of Tulsa (1978–1993) |
| Motto | We are one in Christ |
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Styles of Eusebius Joseph Beltran |
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| Spoken style | Your Excellency |
| Religious style | Archbishop |
Eusebius Joseph Beltran (born August 31, 1934) is an American prelate. He served as Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma from 1993 until 2010, and is now archbishop emeritus. Prior to his appointment to Oklahoma City, Beltran was bishop of the Diocese of Tulsa, Oklahoma from 1978 to 1992.
Beltran was ordained in 1960 and did pastoral and curial work in the Archdiocese of Atlanta until 1978. He also participated in the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965 during the civil rights movement.
Eusebius Beltran was born in Ashley, Pennsylvania, to Joseph and Helen (née Kozlowski) Beltran. His father was a Spanish immigrant and coal miner, who later died of black lung disease. The fifth of eight children, Beltran has two siblings who entered the religious life as well; one brother also became a priest and one sister became a nun, taking the religious name Sister Sponsa and working as a missionary in Liberia. He was raised in Wilkes Barre and attended Marymount School. He took the name Joseph as his confirmation name.
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