HAGÅTÑA (GUAM)
USA Today Network/Pacific Daily News
March 5, 2018
By Haidee V. Eugenio
Saipan’s Bishop Emeritus Tomas A. Camacho, one of several Catholic clergy members accused of sexually abusing altar boys on Guam, died Monday after a long illness, church leaders said.
Camacho was 84 and had been Saipan’s highest-ranking Catholic Church leader for some 25 years, from 1984 until his retirement in April 2010, according to Father James Balajadia of the Diocese of Chalan Kanoa in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
“He has left us, but he will always be remembered for his warm smile and his dedicated service to our church and to the whole of the CNMI,” said Bishop Ryan Jimenez, who succeeded Camacho as head of the Catholic Church in the Marianas.
Archbishop Michael Jude Byrnes expressed sorrow on behalf of the Catholic Church on Guam.
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