Joseph Sadoc Alemany [SEP] position held
Joseph Sadoc Alemany
Joseph Sadoc Alemany y Conill, O.P. (July 3, 1814 – April 14, 1888) was a Spanish Roman Catholic archbishop and missionary. He served as the first Bishop of Monterey from 1850 until 1853, and as the first Archbishop of San Francisco from 1853 until 1884.
Early life.
Alemany was born in Vic, Catalonia, Spain.
Alemany entered the Dominican Order in 1830 and made his solemn profession in September 1831, the same year that his protégé, Patrick Manogue was born
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Parish history.
Dominicans first came to San Francisco in 1850 when the Most Reverend Joseph Sadoc Alemany, Father Sadoc Francis Vilarrasa and Mary Goemere arrived from Spain via several other appointments in the United States. Bishop Alemany, who in 1840 completed his studies in sacred theology in Rome at the College of St. Thomas, the future Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, "Angelicum", had been appointed Bishop of Monterey and invited Fr. Vilarrasa to