| 词条 | Victor Rivera (bishop) |
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| honorific-prefix = The Right Reverend | name = Victor Manuel Rivera | honorific-suffix = | bishop_of = Bishop of San Joaquin | image = | caption = | province = Episcopal Church in the United States | diocese = San Joaquin | see = | enthroned = 1968 | ended = 1999 | predecessor = Sumner F. D. Walters | successor = John-David Schofield | ordination = 1944 | consecration = 1968 | other_post = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1916 | birth_place = Peñuelas, Puerto Rico | death_date = December 24, 2005 | death_place = Visalia, California | buried = | nationality = | religion = | residence = | parents = | spouse = Barbara Ross Lamb | children = Nedi Rivera | occupation = | profession = | alma_mater =Church Divinity School of the Pacific | signature = }} Victor Manuel Rivera (1916 – December 24, 2005) was an American Episcopalian priest and bishop. He served from 1968 to 1989 as the third bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin. Education and early careerRivera was born in Penuelas, Puerto Rico, where his father and four uncles were Episcopal priests.[1] In 1944, he graduated from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, California, and was ordained to the priesthood. From 1943 to 1944 he was vicar of Grace Church in Martinez, California, and from 1945 to 1968, he was rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Visalia, California. He also held diocesan offices in the Diocese of San Joaquin.[2] EpiscopacyIn 1968, Rivera was elected third bishop of the Diocese of San Joaquin.[2] He served until his retirement in January 1989, shortly after reaching the mandatory retirement age of 72.[1] He was succeeded by bishop coadjutor John-David Schofield, who had been elected in the fall of 1988. By the end of Rivera's episcopacy, the Diocese of San Joaquin was one of only six in the Episcopal Church that had not ordained any women to the priesthood. Rivera opposed the ordination of women and sexually active homosexuals during his episcopacy, describing his diocese as "not willing to do away with biblical teachings and the beliefs of the church."[1] When his daughter Nedi was ordained to the Episcopalian priesthood in 1976, Rivera did not attend her ordination service.[3] Later lifeRivera is reported to have changed his mind on women's ordination after his retirement as bishop, as he participated with approval in the consecration of Nedi Rivera as bishop suffragan in the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia.[3][4] Rivera's wife, Barbara, died in April 2005, and he died eight months later on December 23 in Orinda, California.[2] References1. ^1 2 {{cite news|last=Hoagland|first=Doug|title=Bishop won't speculate on successor|newspaper=Modesto Bee|date=September 26, 1987}} {{s-start}}{{S-rel|ac}}{{S-bef|before=Sumner F. D. Walters}}{{S-ttl|title=Episcopal Bishop of San Joaquin|years=1968–1989 }}{{S-aft|after=John-David Schofield}}{{End}}{{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Rivera, Victor Manuel}}2. ^1 2 {{cite news|title=Victor M. Rivera, 89, retired Bishop of San Joaquin, California|url=http://archive.episcopalchurch.org/3577_70513_ENG_HTM.htm|accessdate=22 August 2012|newspaper=Episcopal News Service|date=December 29, 2005}} 3. ^1 {{cite news|last=Coleman|first=Sandy|title=The History-Making, Down-to-Earth Bishop|url=http://wheatoncollege.edu/quarterly/files/2010/10/q2008fall.pdf|accessdate=22 August 2012|newspaper=Wheaton Quarterly|date=Fall 2008}} 4. ^{{cite news|last=Connelly|first=Joel|title=In The Northwest: New Bishop Nedi Rivera will not lack for challenge |url=http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/In-The-Northwest-New-Bishop-Nedi-Rivera-will-not-1164817.php#page-2|accessdate=22 August 2012|newspaper=Seattle Post-Intelligencer|date=January 23, 2005}} 8 : 1916 births|People from Peñuelas, Puerto Rico|Puerto Rican Protestants|Puerto Rican Episcopalians|Puerto Rican religious leaders|American Episcopal priests|Bishops of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America|2005 deaths |
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