1988 Écône consecrations
1988 consecrations of SSPX bishops
1988 Écône consecrations
On 30 June 1988, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and Bishop Antônio de Castro Mayer consecrated four bishops – priests of Lefebvre's Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) – in Écône, Switzerland, against the explicit orders of Pope John Paul II. The consecrations represented a milestone in the troubled relationship of Lefebvre and the SSPX with the Church leadership. The Holy See's Congregation for Bishops issued a decree declaring that Lefebvre, De Castro Mayer, and the consecrated bishops, had incurred automatic excommunication by participating in the consecration of bishops without papal consent, thus putting themselves and the SSPX followers in schism. On 24 January 2009, Pope Benedict XVI lifted the excommunications of the four bishops Lefebvre had consecrated in 1988, but the SSPX did not return into full communion with the Holy See. The two surviving bishops were again excommunicated, along with all SSPX clergy, following the 2026 Écône consecrations, which also resulted in the Holy See declaring...
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