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The Most
Reverend Charles Grande Auxiliary Bishop, American Catholic Church Diocese of California
After this Bishop Grande moved to California 1975. From this point he learned of the Old Catholic Movement and joined the American Catholic Church and was Ordained into the priesthood in 1999, and subsequently Consecrated a Bishop in 2000 with the mandate to establish the American Catholic Church on the West Coast. Bishop Grande is the founding Prelate of the American Catholic Church Diocese of Californian. In 2006 he was succeed by Bishop Lou Bordisso who became the Second Presiding Bishop. Bishop Grande has served as an auxiliary bishop since 2006. |
His
Excellency, The Most Reverend Charles Grande, was born and
raised in New York. He entered the minor seminary to study for
the priesthood with the Franciscans in 1963 and Graduated in
1967 at which time he was sent to Siena College and studied with
several groups of Franciscan Seminarians. Bishop Grande
Graduated Siena 1971 and spent one year in the Novitiate in
Rhode Island. In 1973 Bishop Grande studied for a Masters of Arts in
Theology at Catholic University of American. In 1975 he
received a Masters in Psychology.