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 ...

However, the society known as SSPX founded by the late French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1969, distanced itself from Vigano and his rejection of the legitimacy of Francis' pontificate, saying ...

In 1988, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, against Pope John Paul II’s orders, consecrated four bishops to help him carry on his battle to return the church to the Latin Mass and to preserve other ...

"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 ...

In 1988, the Vatican excommunicated Lefebvre, Bishop Williamson and the other bishops, because they were consecrated without ...

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.