Randolph Roque Calvo is an America prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Calvo served as the seventh bishop of the

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in Nevada from 2006 until 2021

Biography

Early life

Randolph Calvo was born on August 28, 1951, in Agaña, Guam, the youngest of seven children. The family later moved to San Francisco where he attended elementary school. Calvo completed his clerical formation at Saint Joseph College Seminary in Mountain View, California, and at Saint Patrick Seminary in Menlo Park, California. In 1986, Calvo earned a

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degree at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome with a dissertation entitled ''Consultation and the Presbyterial Council: new emphasis in the ratio legis''.

Priesthood

On May 21, 1977, Calvo was ordained by Archbishop

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as a priest for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. After his ordination, Calvo was assigned as parochial vicar at Holy Name of Jesus Parish in San Francisco. In 1979, he was moved to Saint Pius Parish in Redwood City California. In 1982, Calvo went to Rome to study canon law. He returned in 1986 to San Francisco to serve as adjutant judicial vicar of the archdiocesan tribunal. In 1987, he became

judicial vicar In the Roman Catholic Church, a judicial vicar or episcopal official ( la, links=no, officialis) is an officer of the diocese who has ordinary power to judge cases in the diocesan ecclesiastical court. Although the diocesan bishop can reserv ...

. In 1997, Calvo was appointed pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in Redwood City. He also taught canon law at St Patrick' Seminary and University in Menlo Park, California.

Bishop of Reno

On December 23, 2005, Pope Benedict VI appointed Calvo as bishop of the Diocese of Reno. He was consecrated on February 17, 2006, at the Hilton Hotel Pavilion in Reno, Nevada. Archbishop George H. Neiderauer was the principal consecrator, accompanied by co-consecrators Bishop Phillip F. Straling and Bishop

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. On September 30, 2009, Calvo was named in a lawsuit by Richard DeMolen, the former pastor of Our Lady of Tahoe Catholic Parish in

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. Calvo had fired DeMolen because the priest had refused to remove a

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he filed against a diocesan deacon. DeMolen claimed the deacon had sent him a death threat, which Calvo never investigated. The lawsuit was dismissed on April 11, 2010. On October 22, 2010, Calvo placed Tom Cronin, a priest at St. Mary’s in the Mountains Parish in Virginia City, Nevada, on leave due to a sexual abuse allegation from Missouri. On October 1, 2010, Calvo had read that Cronin was being sued in

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, by a woman who claimed he molested at age 17 in

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. Calvo was criticized for not suspending Cronin immediately.

Retirement

On July 20, 2021, Calvo submitted his letter of resignation as bishop of Reno to Pope Francis. The pope named Auxiliary Bishop Daniel H. Mueggenborg as Calvo's successor.

Coat of Arms

Calvo's coat of arms depicts in the dexter impalement the diocesan arms of Reno. The sinister impalement depicts the

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, symbolizing the San Francisco Bay Area where he exercised his presbyteral ministry. The bridge is placed over a field of wavy lines symbolic of Calvo's affinity to the water and the outdoor environment. In base a latte stone for Guam, where he was born. His episcopal motto, "Come Creator Spirit," is placed at the bottom of the shield and derives from the ancient hymn attributed to

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, ''Veni Creator Spiritus''.

Gallery

File:Fr Lucio Zuniga Rocha ordination at Little Flower Reno Nevada .jpg, Bishop Calvo ordaining Father Lucio Zuniga Rocha at the

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in Reno.

References

External links

Roman Catholic Diocese of Reno Official SiteVatican News Service, Bulletin, December 23, 2005KESQ News Release on Bishop Calvo
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