Alphonse Gallegos
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The Most Reverend Alphonse Gallegos O.A.R. Venerable |
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| Auxiliary Bishop of Sacramento | |
Gallegos in his episcopal vestments honoring Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe.
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| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
| Diocese | Sacramento |
| See | Sacramento |
| Appointed | 24 August 1981 |
| Term ended | 6 October 1991 |
| Other posts | Titular Bishop of Sasabe (1981-1991) |
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| Ordination | 24 May 1958 |
| Consecration | 4 November 1981 by Francis Anthony Quinn |
| Rank | Bishop |
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| Birth name | Alphonse Gallegos |
| Born |
20 February 1931 Alburquerque, New Mexico, United States of America |
| Died | 6 October 1991 (aged 60) Sacramento, California, United States of America |
| Buried | National Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Sacramento |
| Nationality | American |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
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| Sainthood | |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Title as Saint | Venerable |
| Attributes | Bishop's attire |
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Styles of Alphonse Gallegos |
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| Reference style | The Most Reverend |
| Spoken style | Your Excellency |
| Religious style | Monsignor |
| Posthumous style | Servant of God |
| Ordination history of Alphonse Gallegos | |
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Priestly ordination
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| Date of ordination | 24 May 1958 |
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Episcopal consecration
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| Principal consecrator | Francis Anthony Quinn |
| Co-consecrators |
John Raphael Quinn Robert Fortune Sanchez |
| Date of consecration | 4 November 1981 |
Alphonse Gallegos (20 February 1931 – 6 October 1991), O.A.R., was an American Roman Catholic bishop titled the as "Bishop of the barrios"; he served as a bishop in Sacramento. Gallegos died in a car crash in 1991 while en route to a function.
He was declared a Servant of God on 5 June 2006.Pope Francis named him as Venerable after the recognition of his heroic virtue on 8 July 2016.
Gallegos was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico where his father was a carpenter, and his mother a homemaker caring for their 11 children. He had a twin brother, Eloy, grew up in Watts, attended Manual Arts High School and received confirmation from then auxiliary bishop Timothy Manning. Gallegos, as a twin, was so intent on becoming a priest he built an altar in his parents' home.
Gallegos attended Rockhurst University in Kansas City, graduated from St. Thomas Aquinas College and St. John's University in New York and Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. While a seminarian at the Tagaste Monastery in Suffern, New York, his superiors learned that Gallegos was born with a severe myopic condition. He had eye surgery prior to entering the seminary but wore "Coke bottle thick glasses with his clerical garb" and was nearly blind.
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