NEW MEXICO
KOAT
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Former Santa Fe Archbishop Robert Fortune Sanchez, who headed New Mexico’s largest Catholic diocese for nearly two decades, has died. He was 77.
Officials with the Archdiocese of Santa Fe made the announcement, saying Sanchez died Friday. The archdiocese did not provide any details about the cause of death, but said he had been ill.
Sanchez was ordained as the archdiocese’s 10th archbishop in 1974. He was the first Hispanic bishop in the United States.
He had resigned in 1993 after three women accused him of being sexually involved with them in the 1970s and early 1980s.
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