Archbishop Lefebvre died in 1991. Pope Benedict XVI later reversed the excommunications. Emma Bubola is a Times reporter based in London, covering news across Europe and around the world.

Before Archbishop Viganò’s case, perhaps the most famous latae sententiae excommunication in recent years was that of the disgraced former Jesuit, the Rev. Marko Rupnik.

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

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 ...