Robert Nugent Lynch

ROBERT NUGENT LYNCH

Born : May 27, 1941
Deceased :

Bishop of Saint Petersburg, 1996-2016

Official blazon

Arms impaled. Dexter: Quarterly, Gu/es and Or, a reversed Latin cross throughout; within the quarters: I, a castle tower; II, a lion rampant; Ill, an Indian arrowhead; IV, a halberd, all counterchanged. Sinister: Or a trefoil Azure; issuant from a base barry wavy of four Argent and of the second, three hills also of the second; in dexter chief a hurt charged a cross of the field.
Motto : Pro Amicis Suis

Origin/meaning

As common in US episcopal heraldry, the arms show the arms of the diocese impaled with the personal arms of the bishop.

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The Motto of Bishop Robert Lynch is "Pro Amicis suis" meaning "For His friends", taken from the Gospel of St. John (15:13). This phrase expresses the deep belief and faith that to truly be a friend of Christ we too must be willing to lay down our lives for our friends as He did for us.

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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