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Jacques Eric Fabre-Jeune

Bishop of Charleston
SeeDiocese of Charleston
AppointedFebruary 22, 2022
InstalledMay 13, 2022
PredecessorRobert E. Guglielmone
Orders
OrdinationOctober 10, 1986
by Wilton Daniel Gregory
ConsecrationMay 13, 2022
by Wilton Daniel Gregory, Gregory John Hartmayer, and Luis R. Zarama
Personal details
Born (1955-11-13) November 13, 1955 (age 66)
NationalityAmerican
EducationSt. John's University
University of St. Michael's College
Catholic Theological Union
Pontifical Urban University
MottoWhatever you do to the least of my children, you do to me
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Jacques Eric Fabre-Jeune
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Reference style
Spoken styleYour Excellency
Religious styleBishop

Jacques Eric Fabre-Jeune C.S., known before May 2022 as Jacques Fabre, (born November 13, 1955) is a Haitian-American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been serving as bishop of the Diocese of Charleston in South Carolina since 2022.

Fabre-Jeune is the first African-American and the first member of a religious community to be named bishop of Charleston. He is the second Haitian-American bishop and the first to head a diocese. Since becoming a priest in 1986, Fabre-Jeunehas worked in Florida and Georgia, the Dominican Republic, and briefly at a refugee camp at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba.

Biography

Early life

Jacques Fabre-Jeune was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 13 November 1955; he had five siblings. He emigrated to the United States as a teenager and completed high school in New York City. He attended St. John's University in Jamaica, New York, and then Saint Michael's College in Toronto, Canada. Fabre-Jeune also studied at the Catholic Theological Union in Hyde Park, Illinois, and at the Scalabrini House of Theology in Chicago. He received a Master of Divinity degree and a Licentiate in Migration Studies from the Pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome. As a Scalabrini novice, Fabre-Jeune worked at one of their missions in Mexico.

Priesthood

On October 10, 1986, Fabre-Jeune was ordained a priest of the Scalabrini in the Diocese of Brooklyn by then Auxiliary Bishop Wilton D. Gregory. Fabre-Jeune's assignments have included

From 2010 to 2022, Fabre-Jeuneserved the Archdiocese of Atlanta as a member of its finance council, its budget and operations committee, its projects review committee, and as director of the Hispanic Charismatic Renewal. He also became the head of Scalabrini fathers in Atlanta.

Bishop of Charleston

Pope Francis appointed Fabre-Jeune as bishop for the Diocese of Charleston on February 22, 2022. He is the first African-American man named to the position and the first member of a religious order. Fabre-Jeune was consecrated a bishop by Cardinal Wilton Gregory and installed in Charleston on May 13, 2022.

He is fluent in English, Spanish, Italian, French, and Creole. He has called English his "third language".


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