Америкалық католик архиепископы Аллен Генри Виньерон

American Roman Catholic Archbishop

Allen Henry Vigneron (born October 21, 1948) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the current archbishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit in Michigan and Ecclesiastical Superior of the Cayman Islands, serving since 2009. Vigneron previously served as bishop of the Diocese of Oakland in California from 2003 to 2009 and as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Detroit from 1996 to 2003. He graduated from Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit in 1970, receiving degrees in both Philosophy and Classical Languages. He then furthered his studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, where he obtained a Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree in 1973.

Upon his return to Detroit, Vigneron was ordained to the priesthood by Cardinal John Dearden on July 26, 1975, at St. Clement of Rome Church in Romeo, Michigan.

On June 12, 1996, John Paul II appointed Vigneron as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit and titular bishop of Sault Sainte Marie. He was consecrated on July 9, 1996, by Cardinal Adam Maida, with Cardinal James Hickey and Cardinal Edmund Szoka serving as co consecrators.

Vigneron was named coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Oakland on January 10, 2003. He automatically succeeded Bishop John Cummins as the third bishop of Oakland on October 1, 2003. At that time, he compared abortion and stem cell research to slavery and racism. Installed on January 28, 2009, Vigneron was the first Detroit native named archbishop of Detroit. On May 15, 2019, Vigneron published the pastoral note "The Day of the Lord", ending the practice of Catholic grade and high schools holding required sports practices and games on Sundays, in an effort to refocus that day on prayer, family and rest. On November 12, 2019, Vigneron was elected vice president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). At the end of the November 2020 USCCB meeting, Bishop José Gómez, USCCB president, created a bishops' working group headed by Vigernon to formulate a plan for dealing with newly elected President Joe Biden. According to the Washington Post, the group's work led to an unsuccessful effort by conservative bishops to approve a document at the June 2021 USCCB meeting to penalized Catholic politicians who support abortion rights for women. On December 14, 2020, a lawsuit accused Vigernon of failing to investigate complaints of sexual abuse at Orchard Lake Schools, an educational center in the archdiocese. Several male employees had accused Miroslaw Krol. a priest who was chancellor of the facility, of making sexual advances on them. A school board member, who ultimately resigned, tried to bring the allegations to Vigneron, also a member of the board. However, Vigneron refused to listen to the allegations because he said they were second hand. Ned McGrath, the archdiocese spokesman, said the archdiocese did not run the facility and that Krol was under the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Newark.

In 2013, Vigneron stated that Catholics who supported same sex marriage should not accept communion at Mass. However, in 2015, he stated that the church does not want to drive any Catholics away from receiving communion, but only that, as per Catholic doctrine, any Catholic conscious of serious sin (such as supporting same sex unions) should not receive holy communion without prior sacramental confession.

In December 2015, U. S. presidential candidate Donald Trump said that, if elected, he would restrict Muslim immigration into the United States. In response, Vigneron wrote a letter to priests in the archdiocese condemning the Trump proposals:While the Catholic Church refrains from weighing in for or against individual candidates for a particular political office, the Church does and should speak to the morality of this important and far reaching issue of religious liberty. Especially as our political discourse addresses the very real concerns about the security of our country, our families, and our values, we need to remember that religious rights are a cornerstone of these values. Restricting or sacrificing these religious rights and liberties out of fear – instead of defending them and protecting them in the name of mutual respect and justice – is a rationalization which fractures the very foundation of morality on which we stand. "