Today at noon time in Rome, the Holy Father named Father Jacques Fabre, CS the 14th Bishop of Charleston.
The Diocese was established by Pope Pius VII on July 11, 1820, and it covered 142,000 square miles across the states of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. Today, that same territory is comprised of the Archdiocese of Atlanta and the Dioceses of Savannah, Raleigh and Charlotte.
Bishop-elect 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 he a Missionary of Saint Charles, also known as the Scalabrinians, which is a religious community that works primarily with immigrants.
While in the seminary, I worked for two years at a Scalabrinian Parish in downtown Rome where the order worked with Latin American immigrants. They are an excellent community with a true heart for service.
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