Diocese of Charleston has a new Bishop
Vatican City, Feb 22, 2022 / 05:05 am
Pope Francis has appointed Father Jacques Fabre as the new Catholic bishop of Charleston, South Carolina.
The Vatican announced the 66-year-old priest’s appointment on Feb. 22.
Fabre was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. In the early 1990s, he was a chaplain at a Haitian refugee camp at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He has served as an administrator at the San Felipe de Jesús Mission in Georgia for the past 12 years.
He will succeed Bishop Robert Guglielmone, 76, who was cleared by the Vatican in December 2020 after an investigation into an allegation that he had sexually abused an eight-year-old boy beginning in 1978 when he was a priest in the Diocese of Rockville Centre, New York.
Pope Francis has appointed Father Jacques Fabre, CS, as the 14th Bishop of Charleston. Bishop-elect Fabre is a member of the religious order the Missionaries of St. Charles, or Scalabrinian Fathers.
“I am humbled to be named Bishop of Charleston and look forward to serving the people of South Carolina,” said Bishop-elect Fabre. “As shepherd, it is my hope to work together to strengthen our Church and project God’s love to all who we encounter.”
Bishop-elect Fabre was born on Nov. 13, 1955, in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. He immigrated to New York City and completed his secondary education. He joined the Scalabrinians and took first vows in 1982, and was ordained a priest Oct. 10, 1986.
Over the past 35 years, Bishop-elect Fabre has served in many places — such as Cuba, Colombia, Rome and the Dominican Republic — and in a variety of roles. He was serving as administrator of Mission San Felipe de Jesus in Forest Park, Ga., when he received the call to become the Bishop of Charleston. He speaks five languages including English, Spanish, Italian, French and Creole.
Bishop-elect Fabre will be ordained and installed on April 29.
Please join me in praying for his ministry:
God, eternal shepherd, you tend your Church in many ways and rule us with love. You have chosen your servant, Jacques, to be a shepherd of your flock. Give him a spirit of courage and right judgment, a spirit of knowledge and love. By governing with fidelity those entrusted to his care, may he build your Church as a sign of salvation for the world. Amen.
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