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The Most
Reverend Lou A. Bordisso, M Div, EdD Auxiliary Bishop, American Catholic Church Diocese of California
His Excellency, The Most Revered Lou A. Bordisso currently resides on Mare Island in the Bay Area near San Francisco, California. Bishop Bordisso is the former Presiding Bishop and current Auxiliary Bishop for the American Catholic Church Diocese of California. Like the vast majority of the clergy in the Old Catholic / Autocephalous; (self-governing)/Independent Movement, he is self supporting. As a "spiritual progressive" Bishop Bordisso formerly served on the pastoral team at St. Victor's Old Catholic Church in Vallejo for over four years.
Bishop Bordisso has been a licensed marriage and family
therapist for twenty years and currently is employed as an
Employee Assistance Program Care Manager for a major mental
health firm. He is the former Civilian Employee Assistance
Program Administrator and Counseling Psychologist for the
Department of the Navy's Military Sealift Command, Pacific. In
addition, Bishop Bordisso has served as the President and
Executive Director for San Francisco's Father Francis Homeless
Project serving youth and young adults in the Tenderloin and
Polk-Gulch area.
As a person who embraces the spirituality of
non-violence, the Lamb of God on the Coat of Arms symbolizes the
gentle, meek, compassionate, and merciful Christ. The
spirituality of Christian non-violence |
does not mean a passive stance or being inactive but is
demonstrated through pro-active behaviors such as the Berrigan
brothers having the courage to throw red paint (to symbolize the
blood) on the steps of the Pentagon and their burning of draft
cards during the Vietnam war era, various Catholic groups
protesting and being arrested at various nuclear facilities and
the School for the Americas, Greenpeace interfering with
Japanese whaling ships, Rosa Parks refusing to ride in the back
of the bus and Martin Luther King Jr. protests during the civil
rights movement, being arrested with Religious Witness with
Homeless People for acts of civil disobedience on behalf of our
brothers and sisters living on the streets of San Francisco,
or simple boycotting of lettuce and grapes in solidarity with
Ceasar Chavez and the California farm worker's movement.