Luigi Mascolo

Luigi Mascolo (born January 7, 1927), was an Italian former Catholic priest who converted to and became a bishop of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church (ICAB), an independent Catholic Church in Brazil.

Luigi Mascolo
Bishop of ICAB
ChurchBrazilian Catholic Apostolic Church
ArchdioceseRio de Janeiro
Orders
Consecration1964
by Antidio Jose Vargas
RankBishop
Personal details
Born7 January 1927
Irsina, Italy
DiedBrazil
NationalityItalian, Brazilian
DenominationIndependent Catholicism, former Roman Catholic
ProfessionPriest, missionary

Biography

Mascolo was born in Irsina, Italy, in January 1927. After narrowly escaping deportation to a Nazi forced labor camp during World War II, he studied in Rome and was later ordained a priest of the Diocese of Matera-Irsina in 1957, before being sent to Brazil as a Fidei Donum missionary.[1] Struggling to find his niche in Brazil, he converted to the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church and was consecrated as an ICAB bishop in 1964 by Antidio Jose Vargas, becoming ICAB's bishop in Rio de Janeiro and later national leader of ICAB during the 1970s (among other acts he consecrated the first bishop and Patriarch of the Argentine Catholic Apostolic Church, Leonardo Morizio Dominguez, in 1972).[2] According to Roman Catholic Canon Law his actions against the Catholic Church resulted in automatic excommunication by the Vatican.

References
  1. Jarvis, Edward. God, Land & Freedom: The True Story of ICAB, Apocryphile Press, Berkeley CA, 2018, pp 128-129
  2. Jarvis, Edward. God, Land & Freedom: The True Story of ICAB, Apocryphile Press, Berkeley CA, 2018, pp 139-144, 159-160
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