Monsignor Alphonse Gallegos OAR., was a Roman Catholic Bishop who was declared Servant of God in July 2008 and venerable on June 14, 2016.
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. Alphonse grew up in Watts, attended Manual Arts High School, and received confirmation from then Auxiliary Bishop, Msgr. Timothy Manning.
Gallegos attended Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Tomas 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.
Ordained to the priesthood through the Order of Augustinian Recollects on May 24, 1958, between 1970 and 1979, he served as pastor of San Miguel and Cristo Rey parishes in the Los Angeles Archdiocese. He was transferred to Sacramento where from 1979 till 1981, he served as the first director of the Division of Hispanic Affairs of the California Catholic Conference.
At 50 years of age, Friar Alphonse was appointed Auxiliary of the Diocese of Sacramento by Pope John Paul II, receiving his episcopal consecration with the Titular See of Sasabe on November 4, 1981, from Bishop Francis Anthony Quinn, assisted by Archbishops John Raphael Quinn and Robert Fortune Sanchez.
On October 6, 1991, Bishop Gallegos was killed when he was struck by a car at 60 years of age, by the side of the road while returning to Sacramento from Gridley, California. At the moment, he was helping a stranded motorist along Highway 99.
In 2005, after eleven months of scrutiny, the cause for Gallegos' beatification was opened by Bishop William Weigand. In 2009, it was reported that the cause for Gallegos would be advanced. A testimony of his virtues along with reports of miracles attributed to the bishop's intercession was presented to the Vatican.
On March 24, 2010, Gallegos' body was exhumed and transferred to the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament at the request of the Augustinian Recollects. The following day, his remains were transferred to the parish he resided in as an auxiliary bishop and re-interred inside a specifically constructed vault. This parish is the Sanctuary of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe also known as Santuario Nacional de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe
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. Alphonse grew up in Watts, attended Manual Arts High School, and received confirmation from then Auxiliary Bishop, Msgr. Timothy Manning.
Gallegos attended Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Tomas 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.
Ordained to the priesthood through the Order of Augustinian Recollects on May 24, 1958, between 1970 and 1979, he served as pastor of San Miguel and Cristo Rey parishes in the Los Angeles Archdiocese. He was transferred to Sacramento where from 1979 till 1981, he served as the first director of the Division of Hispanic Affairs of the California Catholic Conference.
At 50 years of age, Friar Alphonse was appointed Auxiliary of the Diocese of Sacramento by Pope John Paul II, receiving his episcopal consecration with the Titular See of Sasabe on November 4, 1981, from Bishop Francis Anthony Quinn, assisted by Archbishops John Raphael Quinn and Robert Fortune Sanchez.
On October 6, 1991, Bishop Gallegos was killed when he was struck by a car at 60 years of age, by the side of the road while returning to Sacramento from Gridley, California. At the moment, he was helping a stranded motorist along Highway 99.
In 2005, after eleven months of scrutiny, the cause for Gallegos' beatification was opened by Bishop William Weigand. In 2009, it was reported that the cause for Gallegos would be advanced. A testimony of his virtues along with reports of miracles attributed to the bishop's intercession was presented to the Vatican.
On March 24, 2010, Gallegos' body was exhumed and transferred to the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament at the request of the Augustinian Recollects. The following day, his remains were transferred to the parish he resided in as an auxiliary bishop and re-interred inside a specifically constructed vault. This parish is the Sanctuary of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe also known as Santuario Nacional de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe
Monsignor Alphonse Gallegos OAR., was a Roman Catholic Bishop who was declared Servant of God in July 2008 and venerable on June 14, 2016.
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. Alphonse grew up in Watts, attended Manual Arts High School, and received confirmation from then Auxiliary Bishop, Msgr. Timothy Manning.
Gallegos attended Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Tomas 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.
Ordained to the priesthood through the Order of Augustinian Recollects on May 24, 1958, between 1970 and 1979, he served as pastor of San Miguel and Cristo Rey parishes in the Los Angeles Archdiocese. He was transferred to Sacramento where from 1979 till 1981, he served as the first director of the Division of Hispanic Affairs of the California Catholic Conference.
At 50 years of age, Friar Alphonse was appointed Auxiliary of the Diocese of Sacramento by Pope John Paul II, receiving his episcopal consecration with the Titular See of Sasabe on November 4, 1981, from Bishop Francis Anthony Quinn, assisted by Archbishops John Raphael Quinn and Robert Fortune Sanchez.
On October 6, 1991, Bishop Gallegos was killed when he was struck by a car at 60 years of age, by the side of the road while returning to Sacramento from Gridley, California. At the moment, he was helping a stranded motorist along Highway 99.
In 2005, after eleven months of scrutiny, the cause for Gallegos' beatification was opened by Bishop William Weigand. In 2009, it was reported that the cause for Gallegos would be advanced. A testimony of his virtues along with reports of miracles attributed to the bishop's intercession was presented to the Vatican.
On March 24, 2010, Gallegos' body was exhumed and transferred to the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament at the request of the Augustinian Recollects. The following day, his remains were transferred to the parish he resided in as an auxiliary bishop and re-interred inside a specifically constructed vault. This parish is the Sanctuary of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe also known as Santuario Nacional de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe
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. Alphonse grew up in Watts, attended Manual Arts High School, and received confirmation from then Auxiliary Bishop, Msgr. Timothy Manning.
Gallegos attended Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Tomas 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.
Ordained to the priesthood through the Order of Augustinian Recollects on May 24, 1958, between 1970 and 1979, he served as pastor of San Miguel and Cristo Rey parishes in the Los Angeles Archdiocese. He was transferred to Sacramento where from 1979 till 1981, he served as the first director of the Division of Hispanic Affairs of the California Catholic Conference.
At 50 years of age, Friar Alphonse was appointed Auxiliary of the Diocese of Sacramento by Pope John Paul II, receiving his episcopal consecration with the Titular See of Sasabe on November 4, 1981, from Bishop Francis Anthony Quinn, assisted by Archbishops John Raphael Quinn and Robert Fortune Sanchez.
On October 6, 1991, Bishop Gallegos was killed when he was struck by a car at 60 years of age, by the side of the road while returning to Sacramento from Gridley, California. At the moment, he was helping a stranded motorist along Highway 99.
In 2005, after eleven months of scrutiny, the cause for Gallegos' beatification was opened by Bishop William Weigand. In 2009, it was reported that the cause for Gallegos would be advanced. A testimony of his virtues along with reports of miracles attributed to the bishop's intercession was presented to the Vatican.
On March 24, 2010, Gallegos' body was exhumed and transferred to the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament at the request of the Augustinian Recollects. The following day, his remains were transferred to the parish he resided in as an auxiliary bishop and re-interred inside a specifically constructed vault. This parish is the Sanctuary of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe also known as Santuario Nacional de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe
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