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OCT. 6, 1934 1946 SEPTEMBER 1953-MAY 1960 JUNE 29, 1960 AUG. 1, 1960 OCTOBER 1961-SEPTEMBER 1968 Guy Sansaricq is born in Jeremie, Haiti. Graduates from Attends St. Paul’s Seminary conducted by the Canadian Ordained to the priesthood at the Cathedral of Port-au-Prince for the diocese of Les Cayes Assigned as an assistant priest Ministers to Haitian refugees in from He is the youngest of nine children born to Brothers’ Grammar Oblate Fathers in , Canada, earning a degree in by Archbishop Francois-Marie-Joseph Poirier. First Mass was celebrated the following week at at the Cathedral of Les Cayes. the Benedictine priory of St. Francis in Nassau. Catinat and Claire (Besson) Sansaricq. School in Jeremie. Philosophy and a Licentiate in Sacred Theology. St. Louis King of France Church in Jeremie.

1968-1971 After learning that he is not welcome back in Haiti by the dictator President Jean Claude Duvalier, he is assigned to study the Social Doctrine of the Church in Rome at REMEMBERING the Gregorian University.

SEPTEMBER 1971 Arrives in in September, and after living for a short time in Blauvelt, New York, he applies for the Diocese of Brooklyn and is assigned as an assistant at Sacred Heart GUY SANSARICQ Church, Cambria Heights, where he remains until 1993. AUG. 21, 2021 Dies, at age 86, at St. Gregory the Great on the eve of the 15th anniversary of JUNE 1976 his episcopal ordination. Helps establish Haitian Americans United for Progress, Inc. (HAUP)

AUG. 14, 2021 Interviewed by immediately following the earthquake about Haiti’s 1987 dire need for help and started working Selected by the U.S. to head the National Haitian on coordinating relief efforts. Apostolate.

FEB. 28, 2021 Celebrant of annual Black History 1990 Month Mass at the Co-Cathedral of Incardinated as a priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn. St. Joseph, Brooklyn.

1993-2006 OCT. 5, 2019 Pastor at St. Jerome’s Church, East Flatbush. Honored by Brooklyn’s Haitian Aposto- late at Our Lady of Miracles, Canarsie, for his 85th birthday and for his nearly 60 years of service as a priest. MAY 10, 1999 Named a of Honor with the title of by Pope John Paul II. FEB. 5, 2012 DECEMBER 2011 OCTOBER 6, 2010 MARCH 2010 MAY 13, 2007 JAN. 31, 2007 AUG. 22, 2006 Main celebrant of the annual Black Takes part in an “ad lim- Retires from active duty, As a member of a U.S. Installed as Appointed as Ordained as an Auxiliary Bishop for the Diocese of Brooklyn and Titular History Month Mass at St. Patrick’s ina” visit to Rome with after reaching the man- bishops’ delegation, pastor of St. Regional Bishop of Bishop of Glendalough, with residence at St. Gregory the Great Rectory, Cathedral, Manhattan, in observance the Brooklyn bishops to datory retirement age of he visits Haiti to Gregory the Brooklyn and Epis- Crown Heights. Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio is the consecrating Bishop JUNE 6, 2006 of the National Day of Prayer for the meet Pope Benedict XVI 75, with residence at St. assess recent Great parish, copal Vicar for Black at Our Lady of Angels Church, Bay Ridge, with co-consecrators being Named an Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn, the African-American and African Family. and Vatican offi cials. Gregory the Great Rectory. earthquake damage. Crown Heights. Catholic Concerns. Bishops Thomas V. Daily and Ignatius A. Catanello. fi rst Haitian-American named to the U.S. hierarchy.