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Archbishop Lefebvre, c. 1962. Marcel François Marie Joseph Lefebvre CSSp FSSPX ( French: [maʁsɛl fʁɑ̃swa maʁi ʒɔzɛf ləfɛvʁ]; 29 November 1905 – 25 March 1991) was a French Catholic archbishop who influenced modern traditionalist Catholicism. In 1970, five years after the close of the Second Vatican Council, he founded the Society ...
Marcel Lefebvre, founder of the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X, was born November 29, 1905 in the northern French town of Tourcoing. The third of eight children, Marcel grew up under the supervision of his devout Catholic parents, Rene and Gabrielle, who owned a local textile factory.
Marcel Lefebvre was an ultraconservative Roman Catholic archbishop who opposed the liberalizing changes begun by the Second Vatican Council (1962–65) and who was excommunicated in 1988 for consecrating new traditionalist bishops without the approval of the Holy See in Rome. He created the bishops.
Short Biography of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. Marcel Lefebvre was born in 1905. In 1923 he entered the French Seminary in Rome. Having completed his doctorate in philosophy and theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University, he was ordained a priest on September 21, 1929.
Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, Econe, February 11, 1982. Consecrating bishops. In 1988 he ensured that his work of restoring the Catholic priesthood would continue by consecrating four bishops in Econe, even though Pope John Paul II had forbidden it.
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Mar 25, 1991 · The rapid geographical expansion of the Society in England, France and the United States of America, as well as the influx of candidates for the priesthood, reassured Archbishop Lefebvre in his conviction that his work was serving the Church and saving the Catholic priesthood.
