LA’s Bishop Sartoris remembered as ‘one of us’ at Cathedral funeral
Late Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Sartoris was remembered at his July 18 funeral Mass as a big-hearted pastor who was always “one of us” during his 72 years as a priest and bishop in Los Angeles.
“He was magnificent at convincing the rest of us that we were loved by God,” said the funeral’s homilist, Father Ed Dover, who served alongside Sartoris at St. Margaret Mary Alacoque Church in Lomita in the early 1990s. “And then he proceeded to love us as he could, in whatever way he could, by serving however he could.”
More than 500 people — including guests from as far as Alaska and South Carolina — attended Sartoris’ funeral Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, which was celebrated by Archbishop José H. Gomez and followed by a private burial in the Cathedral’s crypt.