Joseph Anton Lopez, S. J. was a Mexican Catholic priest and Jesuit. Lopez was a close ally of Emperor Agustín de Iturbide. Lopez moved to the United States with the exiled Empress Ana María and her children and settled in Washington, D. C. He became the acting president of Georgetown College in 1840.
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Joseph Anton Lopez, S. J. was a Mexican Catholic priest and Jesuit. Lopez was a close ally of Emperor Agustín de Iturbide, residing in Madrid for four years as his attorney and political informant. Lopez moved to the United States with the exiled Empress Ana María and her children and settled in Washington, D. C. He became the acting president of Georgetown College in 1840, making him the first Latin American president of a university in the U.S. Lopez died in St. Inigoes, Maryland, in 1841, and was buried at St. Paul’s Cathedral in New York City, where he was buried with his wife and two daughters in 1846.
He was buried in the church of St. Peter and Paul in New Jersey, where his wife also died in 1842, and where he is buried with her two daughters, one of whom is now a nun at the Monastery of the Visitation of Baltimore. He is buried at the National Shrine of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in San Antonio, Texas, and is survived by his wife, two sons, and a daughter-in-law, all of whom are now living in New Mexico and Texas. He also leaves behind a son, Salvador, who went on to become a priest and a bishop.
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