James Sean Wall
JAMES SEAN WALL
Born: October 11, 1964
Deceased:
Bishop of Gallup, 2009-Present
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Origin/meaning
As common in US episcopal heraldry, the arms show the arms of the diocese impaled with the personal arms of the bishop.
The bishop’s personal arms are presented in four colors, which are the same four colors that make up the state flag of Arizona, His Excellency’s home state. The cross is the cross of Santiago (St. James). By the use of this device, His Excellency honors his baptismal patron, St. James the Greater, who is also the patron of his father, James Wall.
The Tau Cross is a Franciscan charge and honours those servants of God who brought members of the Wall family into the Catholic Church. The fleur-de-lis is to honour St. Joan of Arc, patroness of the bishop’s mother, Joan (Hamilton) Wall.
The motto Estote Factores Verbi is taken from the Epistle of St. James (James 1:22), His Excellency expresses for all of us that, as Christians, we are not to dilute ourselves into thinking that we are only to be listeners to what Christ has taught, but that we are to be “Doers of the Word.”
The achievement is completed with the heraldic insignia of a prelate of the rank of bishop by instruction of the Holy See, of March 1969, confirmed in March 2001.
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