Donald Sanborn
{{Short description|American Catholic bishop}}
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| honorific-prefix = His Excellency, The Most Reverend
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| name = Donald Sanborn
| title = Superior General of the Roman Catholic Institute
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| caption = Sanborn preaching at Most Holy Trinity Seminary, 2018
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| ordination = 29 June 1975
| ordained_by = Marcel Lefebvre
| consecration = 19 June 2002
| consecrated_by = Robert McKenna
| birth_name = Donald Jerome Sanborn
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1950|2|19|mf=yes}}
| birth_place = Flushing, Queens, New York, U.S.
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| religion = Sedeprivationist Catholic
| residence = Reading, Pennsylvania, U.S.
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| alma_mater = The International Seminary of Saint Pius X, Écône, Switzerland
| motto = Sanctifica eos in veritate (Sanctify them in truth [Jn. 17:17])
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{{Ordination
| denomination = Catholic
| ordained priest by = Marcel Lefebvre
| date of priestly ordination = June 29, 1975
| place of priestly ordination = The International Seminary of Saint Pius X, Écône, Switzerland
| consecrated by = Robert McKenna
| date of consecration = June 19, 2002
| place of consecration = Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
| bishop 1 = Joseph Selway
| consecration date 1 = February 22, 2018
| bishop 2 = Germán Fliess
| consecration date 2 = November 30, 2022
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Donald J. Sanborn (born February 19, 1950) is an American Traditionalist Catholic bishop who is known for his advocacy of sedeprivationism.[http://mostholytrinityseminary.org/Explanation%20of%20the%20Thesis.pdf Explanation of the Thesis] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180710225317/http://mostholytrinityseminary.org/Explanation%20of%20the%20Thesis.pdf |date=2018-07-10 }}, mostholytrinityseminary.org. Accessed February 10, 2022.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sodalitiumpianum.com/the-material-papacy/|title=The material Papacy – Sodalitium|website=www.sodalitiumpianum.com|language=it-Eng|access-date=2018-03-07}} He currently serves as the superior general of the sedeprivationist Roman Catholic Institute (RCI) and rector of the sedevacantist Most Holy Trinity Seminary in Reading, Pennsylvania, United States.[https://mostholytrinityseminary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/10.Oct2022_red.pdf Most Holy Trinity Seminary Newsletter October 2022] (accessed November 25, 2022)
Biography
=Early years=
Donald Sanborn was born into a Catholic family in Flushing, Queens, New York, United States.{{cite news |last1=Buggs |first1=Kenneth |title=Ultra traditionalist Catholics Back Suspended Prelate |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/11/09/archives/new-jersey-pages-ultratraditionalist-catholics-back-suspended.html |access-date=17 October 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=9 November 1976}} There, he attended Catholic elementary and high schools.{{cite web|url=http://www.mostholytrinityseminary.org/bpsanbornbio.html|title=Most Holy Trinity Seminary-Bp.Sanborn Bio|last=Despósito|first=Nicolás|website=www.mostholytrinityseminary.org|access-date=2016-12-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160802132957/http://www.mostholytrinityseminary.org/bpsanbornbio.html|archive-date=2016-08-02|url-status=dead}} In 1967, he entered the seminary college for the Diocese of Brooklyn, where, in 1971, he graduated cum laude, having majored in classical languages.{{Cite web |date=2014-08-14 |title=About |url=https://inveritateblog.com/about/ |access-date=2022-12-10 |website=Bp. Sanborn's Blog |language=en}}
=Priesthood=
==Society of Saint Pius X==
In 1971, Sanborn dropped out of the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception, whose training he considered modernist, and entered the International Seminary of Saint Pius X in Écône, Switzerland, of the traditionalist Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), becoming one of the first seminarians of the newly founded society.
On 29 June 1975, in Écône, he was ordained a priest by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre of the SSPX.{{cite web|url=http://www.traditionalmass.org/priests/sanborn.php|title=Most Rev. Donald J. Sanborn - Biographical Information {{!}} Traditional Latin Mass Resources|last=Uhlenbrock|first=Robert W.|website=www.traditionalmass.org|access-date=2016-12-16}} Canonical recognition of the SSPX had been withdrawn by the local Roman Catholic bishop in May 1975, one month prior to his ordination, and this move was later upheld by the Holy See: the ordinations were therefore deemed to be valid but illicit by the Vatican and Sanborn and the other new priests were suspended a divinis.[https://fsspx.org/en/roman-sanctions SSPX website]; accessed February 10, 2022.
By 1976, Sanborn was offering the traditional Latin Mass for Catholics on Long Island, New York, United States, together with Clarence Kelly.
==Saint Thomas Aquinas Seminary==
In 1977, Sanborn was teaching at a seminary of the SSPX which was then called Saint Joseph's House of Studies, in Armada, Michigan, United States.{{cite news |last1=Sterba |first1=James |title=French Prelate Celebrates Latin Mass in Texas as He Defies Pope |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/07/11/archives/french-prelate-celebrates-latin-mass-in-texas-as-he-defies-pope.html |access-date=18 October 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=11 July 1977}} Later in the same year, he was appointed rector of the seminary.{{cite news |last1=Franklin |first1=James |date=26 March 1980 |title=SUSPENDED FRENCH ARCHBISHOP ORDAINS A PRIEST |work=The Boston Globe |url=https://bostonglobe.newspapers.com/image/428222101/?terms=SUSPENDED%20FRENCH%20ARCHBISHOP%20ORDAINS%20A%20PRIEST&match=1}}{{cite news |last1=Hyer |first1=Marjorie |date=30 July 1977 |title=Battling Catholic Church 'Modernism': In the view of many traditionalists, Vatican II has caused a host of church problems, ranging from the defection of large numbers |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1977/07/30/battling-catholic-church-modernism/bdc60079-61f3-4cfc-834a-9638fc988814/}}
==Leaving the Society of Saint Pius X, co-founding the Society of Saint Pius V==
Lefebvre directed the SSPX's American priests to follow the 1962 edition of the Roman Missal; Sanborn and eight other American priests refused to do this, preferring to use the 1920 edition. These nine priests accused Lefebvre of being insufficiently traditionalist.{{cite news |last1=Liberto |first1=Jennifer |date=August 18, 2003 |title=Seminary wins planners' okay |url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2003/08/12/seminary-wins-planners-okay/ |work=Tampa Bay Times |publisher=}}{{cite web|url=http://mostholytrinityseminary.org/SCSF%20October%202007.pdf|title=Most Holy Trinity Seminary Newsletter|last=Sanborn|first=Donald|date=October 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160523074955/http://mostholytrinityseminary.org/SCSF%20October%202007.pdf|archive-date=2016-05-23|url-status=dead}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.truerestoration.org/season-ii-clerical-conversations-on-the-crisis-episode-1-the-nine-30-years-on/|title=Season 2, Clerical Conversations, Episode 1: "The Nine," 30 Years On...|date=2013-03-13|newspaper=True Restoration|language=en-US|access-date=2016-12-16}} According to Sanborn, Lefebvre was imposing these liturgical and disciplinary changes in view of a reconciliation with the Vatican.Catholic Family Podcast. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQaHJz8nZyQ Bishop Donald Sanborn Explains The Cassiciacum Thesis]. 18 February 2022.
On April 27, 1983, these nine priests, along with some seminarians who were sympathetic to them, were promptly expelled from the SSPX by Lefebvre, for their refusal to use the 1962 Missal and for other reasons, such as their resistance to Lefebvre's order that priests of the SSPX must accept the decrees of nullity handed down by diocesan marriage tribunals, and their disapproval of the SSPX's policy of accepting into the society new members who had been ordained to the priesthood according to the revised sacramental rites of Paul VI. Almost immediately, these nine priests formed the Society of Saint Pius V (SSPV).{{Cite book |last=Cuneo |first=Michael W. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8OL9tyvN5YcC&dq=fr+clarence+kelly&pg=PA102 |title=The Smoke of Satan: Conservative and Traditionalist Dissent in Contemporary American Catholicism |date=1999-10-22 |publisher=JHU Press |isbn=978-0-8018-6265-6 |pages=96 |language=en}}
==Most Holy Trinity Seminary==
In 1995, Sanborn founded the sedevacantist Most Holy Trinity Seminary in Spring Lake, Florida, United States. Prior to his episcopal consecration later in 2002, the seminary's graduates were ordained by Daniel Dolan,{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}} who was consecrated a bishop in 1993. In 2005, the seminary was relocated to Brooksville, Florida.{{cite news |last1=Bates |first1=Michael |date=5 April 2007 |title=New Seminary Stirring Curiosity |publisher=Tampa Tribune |url=https://tbo.newspapers.com/image/342648978/?terms=New%20Seminary%20Stirring%20Curiosity&match=1}}{{cite web|url=http://mostholytrinityseminary.org/|title=Most Holy Trinity Seminary-Presentation|last=Despósito|first=Father Nicolás|website=mostholytrinityseminary.org|access-date=2016-12-17}}
=Episcopacy=
== Episcopal consecration ==
On June 19, 2002, in Detroit, Michigan, Sanborn was consecrated a bishop by the American sedeprivationist bishop Robert McKenna of the Orthodox Roman Catholic Movement.
Sanborn served as pastor of the Queen of All Saints Chapel in Brooksville, Florida.{{cite news |last1=Bates |first1=Michael |title=A claim to 'true' Catholicism? |publisher=Hernando Today |date=22 April 2007}}
== Episcopal consecration of Selway ==
On February 22, 2018, Sanborn consecrated his intended successor, Joseph Selway, as a bishop, with Bishop Geert Stuyver of the Istituto Mater Boni Consilii (Verrua Savoia, Turin, Italy) and Bishop Daniel Dolan (from West Chester, Ohio) assisting as co-consecrators.Jarvis, Edward. Sede Vacante: the Life and Legacy of Archbishop Thục, Apocryphile Press, Berkeley CA, 2018, pp. 107–10, 143–44
== Present day ==
Sanborn currently serves as the Superior General of the Roman Catholic Institute and as the rector of the Most Holy Trinity Seminary which was relocated from Brooksville, Florida to Reading, Pennsylvania in Fall 2022.
He frequently visits Mass centers in the United States and occasionally travels to Europe, meeting with sedevacantist and sedeprivationist clergy and laity.
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- [https://inveritateblog.com/ Personal blog]
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