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Moisés Carmona

Traditionalist Catholic bishop (1912–1991) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Moisés Carmona
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Moisés Carmona Rivera (31 October 1912 1 November 1991) was a sedevacantist traditionalist Catholic bishop from Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico, who propagated sedevacantism in Mexico and was excommunicated from the Catholic Church. He was illicitly consecrated a bishop by the Vietnamese sedevacantist bishop Ngô Đình Thục.[1][2][3]

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Biography

In November 1939, Carmona was ordained a priest by Bishop Leopoldo Díaz y Escudero of Chilapa.[4] Carmona became a seminary professor.[5]

In 1981, Carmona and Zamora were brought by the German sedevacantists Dr Eberhard Heller and Dr Kurt Hiller to the Vietnamese sedevacantist bishop Ngô Đình Thục in Toulon, France. Thục illicitly consecrated them bishops[3] in Toulon on 17 October 1981, which led to his excommunication.[2][6]

Carmona went on to illicitly consecrate four more purported bishops: Mexicans Benigno Bravo and Roberto Martinez y Gutiérrez, and Americans George Musey and Mark Pivarunas.[6]

Carmona died on 1 November 1991, one day after his 79th birthday, from injuries sustained in an automobile accident.[7]

In 1996, Carmona's body was exhumed and transferred by Martín Dávila Gandara of the SST to a crypt in a lower chapel below the Divine Providence Church. Gandara claimed that during the transference, Carmona's body showed no signs of decomposition, and that pictures taken of him when his body was put into the crypt looked the same at the time of his funeral.[7]

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