- Donald Sanborn
Bishop Donald J. Sanborn is a sedeprivationist
Traditionalist Catholic bishop who isRector ofMost Holy Trinity Seminary inBrooksville, Florida .Sanborn was born in
New York City . In 1967 he entered theseminary college for theDiocese of Brooklyn , where he majored in classical languages and graduated "cum laude " in 1971. That same year, unhappy with the church reforms being introduced in light of theSecond Vatican Council , he entered Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre's seminary inEcône ,Switzerland , becoming one of the first seminarians in the newly foundedSociety of St. Pius X (SSPX).Sanborn was ordained a
priest by Archbishop Lefebvre onJune 29 1975 . He returned to East Meadow, on New York'sLong Island , to assist the Rev.Clarence Kelly . He taught at St. Pius V School on Long Island, and traveled to offer Mass inPennsylvania ,Delaware andVirginia .In January 1977 Archbishop Lefebvre appointed Sanborn Rector of St. Joseph's House of Studies in
Armada, Michigan , SSPX's first American seminary. In fall of that year, he was joined by the Rev.Anthony Cekada . The following year he acquired a church facility inRedford, Michigan , to serve Catholics in the Detroit metropolitan area.From Armada, Fr. Sanborn conducted an extensive search throughout the United States for a new and larger seminary facility to accommodate the growing number of seminarians. In 1979, with the consent of Archbishop Lefebvre, he acquired a former Jesuit retreat house in Ridgefield,
Connecticut , which was then renamedSt. Thomas Aquinas Seminary and became the new home of the SSPX's U.S. seminary. He immediately made plans for the expansion of the Ridgefield facility, and launched a major fundraising program, which by 1982 allowed construction to begin on a new wing.In April 1983 he was among nine priests expelled from SSPX because they objected to liturgical demands by Archbishop Lefebvre (among them the use of the 1962
Roman Missal ofPope John XXIII ), as well as to other - in Sanborn's words - "disturbing leftward" trends in the Archbishop's organization. Archbishop Lefebvre demanded that SSPX priests cease to claim publicly thatPope John Paul II was not a legitimateRoman Pontiff , which some refused. Lefebvre also accepted into the SSPXpriest s ordained in the revised ordination rite ofPope Paul VI (in force since June 1968); the seceders - among themDaniel Dolan - claimed that, at best, such priests were only doubtfully priests. After their conflict with Lefebvre and his assistants, these nine priests and a few SSPX seminarians who joined them formed theSociety of St. Pius V (SSPV) under the leadership of then-Fr.Clarence Kelly .Within the SSPV too, differences arose over Fr. Kelly's rejection of the Thuc-lineage bishops as invalid, and Sanborn,
Daniel Dolan , Cekada and others left, becoming independent priests.In 1984 Fr. Sanborn established the independent
traditionalist Catholic Blessed Sacrament Chapel inMartinez, California .After leaving the church in California, he returned to Michigan in 1986, acquiring a large school complex in Warren, a northeast suburb of Detroit. This became the home for the
Mary Help of Christians Academy and theSaint Pius X Chapel , which was later renamedQueen of Martyrs Chapel and which in 1999 would acquire a large church in Fraser, another northeast suburb.In 1991 he founded the "Sacerdotium", a scholarly quarterly for sedevacantist priests, and also "Catholic Restoration", a periodical for the sedevacantist laity. Both acquired a reputation for excellence in content and presentation among sedevacantists, despite their sometimes highly polemical content.
During this period, Fr. Sanborn turned his attention to writing, and produced a series of articles critical of the
Second Vatican Council andPope John Paul II .In 1995, with the encouragement of fellow sedevacantist and sedeprivationist Catholic priests, he founded the
Most Holy Trinity Seminary .On
June 19 2002 , Sanborn was consecrated abishop by Most Rev. Robert F. McKenna, O.P.. Sanborn is thereby a Thuc-lineage bishop, so some traditionalists dispute the validity of his episcopal consecration.Bishop Sanborn's next project began in 2003, when the Most Holy Trinity Seminary acquired 50 acres of land near
Brooksville, Florida , (about 30 minutes north of Tampa) with a view to constructing a new building and relocating its operations there. The Seminary will be designed in a Spanish Mission style. It will feature a large church with a Roman Classical interior and about 40 rooms opening onto an arched walkway around a central courtyard. Construction began in January 2005.External links
* [http://www.traditionalmass.org/priests/sanborn.php Most Rev. Donald Sanborn]
* [http://www.mostholytrinityseminary.org/ Most Holy Trinity Seminary ]
* [http://www.hernandotoday.com/news/MGBWUUGII0F.html Hernando Today Newspaper on Bp. Sanborn]Episcopal_Succession
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