Patricio (Patrick) Flores, born July 26, 1929 in Ganado, Texas, became the first Mexican-American Catholic bishop. After graduating from high school in Galveston, he studied at St. Mary's Seminary in La Porte, TX and St. Mary's Seminary in Houston.
He was ordained as a priest for the Diocese of Galveston-Houston May 26, 1956. Pope Paul VI appointed Flores as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of San Antonio in March 1970, and then as bishop of the Dioceses of El Paso in May 1978.
In August 1979, Pope John Paul II appointed Flores as archbishop of the Archdiocese of San Antonio. He retired at the age of 75 in December 2004. He passed away in January 2017 of congestive heart failure and pneumonia.
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