Roland Pierre DuMaine

ROLAND PIERRE DUMAINE

Born : August 2, 1931
Deceased :

Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco, 1978-1981
Bishop of San Jose in California, 1981-1998

Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco

Bishop of San Jose in California

Official blazon

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 arms show symbols of his parents' cultural heritage; the Archdiocese of San Francisco where he was ordained and served; his patron the Apostle Peter who was martyred on an inverted cross; the Pacific Ocean and airwaves (reflecting his work in educational television and communications); and water symbols reminiscent of his youth in Kentucky near the Ohio and Cumberland Rivers.

His Episcopal motto, "Gaudium et Spes," reflects the opening words of the Second Vatican Council's Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World: "The joys and hopes, the grief and anguish of the people of our time, especially of those who are poor or afflicted, are the joys and hopes, the grief and anguish of the followers of Christ as well..."

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.