Joseph Sadoc Alemany
Spanish archbishop (1814-1888)
Joseph Sadoc Alemany, O.P. (Spanish: José Sadoc Alemany y Conill;; July 3, 1814 – April 14, 1888) was a Spanish Catholic prelate who served as archbishop of San Francisco in California from 1853 to 1884. He previously served as the first bishop of Monterey in California from 1850 to 1853. He was a member of the Dominican Order.
Early life
Joseph Alemany was born in Vic, Catalonia in Spain on July 3, 1814, to Antoni Alemany i Font and Miquela dels Sants Conill i Saborit. Alemany entered the Dominican Order in 1829 at age 15, studying theology at a convent in Vic and the Convent de Sant Domènec de Girona in Girona, Spain. He made his solemn profession of religious vows to the Dominicans in 1831.
In 1834, an outburst of deadly anti-clerical rioting in Spain prompted Reverend Tomasso Cipolletti, the Dominican grandmaster, to offer Alemany and other Dominican seminarians refuge in the Dominican convent in Viterbo, Italy. Alemany began studying at the College of St. Thomas, the future Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, where in 1840 he was made Lector in Theology.
Priesthood
Alemany was ordained a priest for the Dominican Order in Viterbo Cathedral in Viterbo, Italy, on March 11, 1837, by Archbishop Gaspare Bernardo Pianetti.
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