Moisés Carmona
Moisés Carmona y Rivera (31 October 1912 – 1 November 1991) was a traditionalist Catholic bishop from Acapulco, Mexico who was a proponent of sedevacantism, which holds that the papacy after the death of Pope Pius XII is vacant. He was one of the bishops consecrated by Bishop Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục.[1]
His Excellency, the Most Reverend Moisés Carmona | |
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| Ordination | 1939 |
| Consecration | 17 October 1981 by Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục |
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| Birth name | Moisés Carmona y Rivera |
| Born | 31 October 1912 Quechultenango, Guerrero, Mexico |
| Died | 1 November 1991 Mexico |
| Nationality | Mexican |
| Denomination | Sedevacantism |
| Styles of Moisés Carmona | |
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| Spoken style | Your Excellency |
| Religious style | Bishop |
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Biography
Moisés Carmona was born in Quechultenango, Guerrero, Mexico, and was ordained a diocesan priest in 1939.[2]
When the reforms of the Second Vatican Council came to his Mexican parish in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he refused to conform. Influenced by his friend, Fr. Joaquin Saenz Arriaga (who came to the conclusion that the Second Vatican Council had established a new religion and that Paul VI was a false pope), Carmona came to embrace Fr. Saenz's ideas, and was excommunicated and removed from his post as pastor of Divine Providence parish by Rafael Bello Ruiz, the bishop of Acapulco, on April 30, 1977. With the support of his 2,000 parishioners and due to Mexican law, Father Carmona was able to keep his parish church despite his excommunication.[3]
Carmona, along with Fathers Joaquin Saenz Arriaga and Adolfo Zamora, formed the Union Catolica Trento.[4]
On October 17, 1981, Fathers Carmona and Zamora were consecrated bishop by the sedevacantist Vietnamese traditionalist Roman Catholic bishop Ngô Đình Thục in Toulon, France.[5]
Bishop Carmona then proceeded to consecrate other bishops for the sedevacantist movement. They were Mexicans Benigno Bravo and Roberto Martinez y Gutiérrez and Americans George Musey and Mark Pivarunas, CMRI.[6]
Carmona died November 1, 1991 from injuries sustained in an automobile accident in Mexico.
References
- "In Defense of My Episcopal Consecration (A Letter of Bishop Moises Carmona)". Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
- Eberhard Heller In Erinnerung an Bischof Moises Camora Rivera. In: Einsicht 21 (1991) pag. 89-98.
- Ruby, Griff (2002). The Resurrection of the Roman Catholic Church: A guide to the Traditional Catholic community. iUniverse. p. 138. ISBN 9780595250189.
- Ruby, Griff (2002). The Resurrection of the Roman Catholic Church: A guide to the Traditional Catholic community. iUniverse. p. 142. ISBN 9780595250189.
- Cuneo, Michael F. (1997). The Smoke of Satan: Conservative and Traditionalist Dissent in Contemporary American Catholicism. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. p. 99. ISBN 9780195113501.
- Cuneo, Michael F. (1997). The Smoke of Satan: Conservative and Traditionalist Dissent in Contemporary American Catholicism. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. p. 101, 105. ISBN 9780195113501.
