As Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated Friday night with a Jubilee Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark, New Jersey, Bishop Pedro Bismarck Chau will be standing at the alter.

The newly-ordained Bishop Bismarck, as he likes to be called, is the first man born in Nicaragua to become a Catholic bishop in the United States.

Journey to U.S. to escape danger started in 1983

Bismarck was born in Nicaragua in 1967 and lived through the Civil War, during which 50,000 people died. In 1983, he fled the danger, sneaking across the southern border into the U.S.

"There was fear in me as a young teenager, that I came at the age of 16 and started working, undocumented," he said.

He said he came to America because he knew it was a land of opportunity.

"Many people do come

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