Donald Sanborn

His Most Reverend Excellency
Donald J. Sanborn
Traditional Roman Catholic Bishop
Portrait of Sanborn in 2018
Church St. Gertrude the Great
Orders
Ordination 29 June 1975
by Marcel Lefebvre
Consecration June 2002
by Most Rev. Robert McKenna O.P.
Personal details
Born 1950
New York
Nationality American
Denomination Sedevacantist Roman Catholic
Alma mater The International Seminary of Saint Pius X, Armanda, Michigan
Donald Sanborn
Website https://inveritateblog.com/
Ordination history of
Donald Sanborn
History
Priestly ordination
Ordained by Marcel Lefebvre
Date 29 June 1975
Place The International Seminary of Saint Pius X, Armanda, Michigan
Episcopal consecration
Consecrated by Most Rev. Robert McKenna O.P.
Date June 2002

Donald J. Sanborn (born February 19, 1950) is a Roman Catholic bishop, Rector of Most Holy Trinity Seminary[1] in Brooksville, Florida.

Biography

Early years

Donald Sanborn was born into a Roman Catholic family in New York. There he attended Catholic elementary school, and highschool.[2] He became interested in the Catholic priesthood and entered the seminary college in the Diocese of Brooklyn, which he attended until graduating in 1971. However in that very year he became unhappy with the modernist tendencies in that seminary.

SSPX

Becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the effects of the Second Vatican Council, he entered the SSPX seminary in Ecône, Switzerland. He was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1975[3] and was appointed Rector of St. Joseph’s House of Studies in Armada, Michigan, in 1977. There he conducted an extensive research for a larger and newer to accommodate the ever growing amount of seminarians. Eventually, he acquired a former Jesuit retreat house, which later would come to be renamed as the St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary. Later, he launched a fundraising program to expand the facility, in 1982.

The Nine

In 1983, he was among the nine American priests who opposed the liturgical changes that were imposed by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.[4]Hence, in 1983, he was expelled[5] from the SSPX, along with the other priests including Anthony Cekada and Daniel Dolan.[6]

Most Holy Trinity Seminary

Sanborn continued to function outside of the SSPX and founded Most Holy Trinity Seminary in 1995.[2] After being consecrated Bishop by Most. Rev. Robert McKenna in 2002, he continued to function as Rector of Most Holy Trinity Seminary, which in 2005 was relocated to Brooksville, Florida. He currently continues to train priests at Most Holy Trinity Seminary, which is now one of the largest sedevacantist seminaries in the world, and frequently travels to Europe and around the United States holding conferences promoting sedevacantism. On February 22, 2018, on the Feast of the See of St. Peter at Antioch, Bishop Sanborn consecrated Fr. Joseph Selway to the Episcopacy. During the ceremony of Episcopal Consecration, Bp. Geert Stuyver from the Mater Boni Consilii Institute and Bp. Daniel Dolan assisted as Co-Consecrators.

References

  1. ↑ Despósito, Father Nicolás. "Most Holy Trinity Seminary-Presentation". mostholytrinityseminary.org. Retrieved 2016-12-17.
  2. 1 2 Despósito, Father Nicolás. "Most Holy Trinity Seminary-Bp.Sanborn Bio". www.mostholytrinityseminary.org. Retrieved 2016-12-16.
  3. ↑ Uhlenbrock, Robert W. "Most Rev. Donald J. Sanborn - Biographical Information | Traditional Latin Mass Resources". www.traditionalmass.org. Retrieved 2016-12-16.
  4. ↑ Sanborn, Donald (October 2007). "Most Holy Trinity Seminary Newsletter" (PDF).
  5. ↑ "Season 2, Clerical Conversations, Episode 1: "The Nine," 30 Years On..." True Restoration. 2013-03-13. Retrieved 2016-12-16.
  6. ↑ Uhlenbrock, Robert W. "Letter of 'the Nine' to Abp. Marcel Lefebvre | Articles: 0 | Traditional Latin Mass Resources". www.traditionalmass.org. Retrieved 2016-12-16.
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