Bishop of Charleston
Msgr. Jacques E. Fabre, C.S., was born on 13 November 1955 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He emigrated to New York City, and attended Saint John’s University in Jamaica, New York, and Saint Michael’s College in Toronto, Canada. After entering the Congregation of the Missionaries of Saint Charles (Scalabrinians), he carried out his ecclesiastical studies at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, Illinois. He subsequently studied at the Pontifical Urban University, obtaining a licentiate in human mobility (2004-2006). He was ordained a priest on 10 October 1986 in the diocese of Brooklyn, for the Scalabrinians. He has held the following offices: parish vicar of the Our Lady of Guadalupe parish in Immokalee, Florida (1986-1990), chaplain for refugees in Guantanámo, Cuba (1990-1991), parish priest of San Pedro de Macoris parish in the Dominican Republic (1991-2004), and parish vicar of the Saint Joseph parish in Athens, Georgia (2006-2008) and of the Holy Trinity parish in Peachtree City, Florida (2008-2010). From 2010 to date he has served as administrator of the San Felipe de Jesus Catholic Mission in Forest Park in the metropolitan archdiocese of Atlanta.