Patricio Flores | |
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| Archbishop of San Antonio | |
| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
| Archdiocese | San Antonio |
| Installed | October 13, 1979 |
| Term ended | December 29, 2004 |
| Predecessor | Francis James Furey |
| Successor | José Horacio Gómez |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | May 26, 1956 by Wendelin Nold |
| Consecration | May 5, 1979 by Luigi Raimondi, Francis James Furey, John Louis Morkovsky[1] |
| Personal details | |
| Born | July 26, 1929 |
| Died | January 9, 2017 (aged 87) San Antonio, Texas |
| Motto | Laborabo non mihi sed omnibus (English: "I will work not for myself but for others") |
| Styles of Patrick Flores | |
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| Reference style | The Most Reverend |
| Spoken style | His Excellency |
| Religious style | Monsignor |
| Posthumous style | not applicable |
Patricio Fernández Flores (July 26, 1929 – January 9, 2017) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served from 1979 to 2004 as archbishop of the Archdiocese of San Antonio in Texas, bishop of the Diocese of El Paso in Texas from 1978 to 1979, and auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of San Antonio from 1970 to 1978.
Flores was the first Mexican-American to become a Catholic bishop.[2]
- ^ "Archbishop Patricio Fernández Flores †". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved March 20, 2017.
- ^ "Archbishop Patrick Flores, first Hispanic bishop in U.S., dies". National Catholic Reporter. January 10, 2017. Retrieved February 18, 2022.