Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, then apostolic nuncio to the United States, talks with a U.S. bishop during the bishops’ meeting in Baltimore in this Nov. 13, ... Lefebvre, he said, ...

While Archbishop Viganò has claimed that his position is the same as that of Lefebvre, the Society of St. Pius X, which Lefebvre founded, has distanced itselffrom Archbishop Viganò, pointing out ...

In 1988, the Vatican excommunicated Lefebvre, Bishop Williamson and the other bishops, because they were consecrated without papal consent. First as cardinal and then as pope, Benedict worked to ...

"One of the four bishops ordained by Archbishop Lefebvre in 1988, Bishop Richard Williamson, was expelled from SSPX in October 2012. Bishop Richard Williamson then established a new group known as ...

ROME (AP) — Richard Williamson, an ultra-traditionalist Catholic bishop whose denial of the Holocaust created a scandal in 2009 when Pope Benedict XVI rehabilitated him and other members of his ...

Archbishop Lefebvre ordained him as a priest in 1976, and from 1983 to 2003 he was rector of the Society of Saint Pius X’s seminary in the United States, first in Ridgefield, Conn., and later in ...

Archbishop Lefebvre died in a state of excommunication in 1991 for consecrating four bishops without the approval of Pope John Paul II. Walter Sanchez Silva/CNA/Aci Prensa World.

Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais, one of four leaders of the Society of St Pius X ordained bishops in 1988, died aged 79. ... Ordained by Lefebvre without Vatican consent, ...

Williamson was among four men consecrated bishop in 1988 by the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who formed the group in 1969 in opposition to the Second Vatican Council.