| The Most Reverend Anthony Sablan Apuron, OFM Cap., D.D. |
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| Metropolitan Archbishop of Agana | |
| See | Agana, Guam |
| Enthroned | May 11, 1986 |
| Predecessor | Felixberto Camacho Flores |
| Successor | incumbent |
| Other posts | Titular Bishop of Muzuca in Byzacena |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | August 16, 1972 |
| Consecration | February 16, 1984 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | November 1, 1945 Guam |
| Nationality | Chamorro |
Anthony Sablan Apuron has been archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Agaña since 1986. Apuron was born in 1945 in Guam. He was educated at St. Anthony College in Hudson, New Hampshire, and at Capuchin Seminary in Garrison, New York. He then studied at Maryknoll Seminary in New York City and the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. He was ordained a priest in 1972.
Apuron was recently the target of criticism over a letter that was distributed by his archdiocese comparing gay rights activism to Islamic terrorism.[1][2]
To date, Apuron has never retracted the statements which include the following: "Islamic fundamentalists clearly understand the damage that homosexual behavior inflicts on a culture. That is why they repress such behavior by death. Their culture is anything but one of selfabsorption. It may be brutal at times, but any culture that is able to produce wave after wave of suicide bombers (women as well as men) is a culture that at least knows how to value selfsacrifice." [3][4][5]