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Michael Jarboe Sheehan

His Excellency, The Most Reverend
Michael Jarboe Sheehan
Archbishop Emeritus of Santa Fe
Archdiocese Santa Fe
Appointed April 6, 1993 (Administrator)
Installed September 21, 1993
Term ended April 27, 2015
Predecessor Robert Fortune Sanchez
Successor John Charles Wester
Orders
Ordination July 12, 1964
Consecration June 17, 1983
by Patrick Fernández Flores, Leroy Matthiesen, and Thomas Ambrose Tschoepe
Personal details
Born (1939-07-09) July 9, 1939 (age 78)
Wichita, Kansas
Nationality American
Denomination Roman Catholic
Previous post Boshop of Lubbock (1983–1993)
Motto Love one another constantly
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Michael Jarboe Sheehan
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Spoken style Your Excellency
Religious style Archbishop

Michael Jarboe Sheehan (born July 9, 1939) is a retired American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the eleventh Archbishop of Santa Fe. He was the Bishop of Lubbock from 1983 to 1993.

Michael Sheehan was born in Wichita, Kansas to John and Mildred (née Jarboe) Sheehan, and raised in Texarkana, Texas. He attended both St. John's High School Seminary and Assumption Seminary in San Antonio, Texas. He then furthered his studies in Rome at the Pontifical Gregorian University, from where he obtained a Licentiate of Sacred Theology in 1965. Sheehan was ordained to the priesthood in Rome on July 12, 1964.

Upon his return to the United States, he served as parochial vicar at Immaculate Conception Parish in Tyler from 1965 to 1968. Returning to Rome, he earned a doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical Lateran University in 1971. Sheehan served as Assistant General Secretary of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops/United States Catholic Conference from 1971 to 1976, and as rector of Holy Trinity Seminary in Dallas from 1976 to 1982. In 1982, he was named pastor of Immaculate Conception Parish in Grand Prairie.


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