Moisés Carmona
Moisés Carmona Rivera | |
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| Church | Iglesia Divina Providencia (Divine Providence Church), Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico |
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| Ordination | November 1939 by Leopoldo Díaz y Escudero |
| Consecration | 17 October 1981 by Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục |
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| Born | Moisés Carmona y Rivera 31 October 1912 Quechultenango, Guerrero, Mexico |
| Died | 1 November 1991 Mexico |
| Denomination | Sedevacantist Catholic |
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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]
Biography
[edit]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, aged 79, 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]
References
[edit]- ^ Ward, Gary L.; Persson, Bertil; Bain, Alan, eds. (1990). "Rivera, Moisés Carmona". Independent Bishops: An International Directory. Preface by J. Gordon Melton. Apogee Books. p. 343. ISBN 978-1-55888-307-9.
- ^ a b Einsicht (May 1983). Retrieved 16 October 2021.
- ^ a b Vatican. "Notification". In L’Osservatore Romano, English Edition, 18 April 1983, Page 12.
- ^ Dr. Eberhard Heller. "In Erinnerung an Bischof Moises Camora Rivera". In: Einsicht 21 (1991) pag. 89-98.
- ^ "Curriculum Vitae del R.P. Moises Carmona Rivera," Einsicht, German ed., (Mar., 1982), p.24
- ^ a b Cuneo, Michael F. (1997). The Smoke of Satan: Conservative and Traditionalist Dissent in Contemporary American Catholicism. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. p. 99. ISBN 9780195113501.
- ^ a b "Adsum (October 2016)" (PDF). Mater Dei Seminary. Retrieved 16 February 2021.