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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.
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.
The Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX; Latin: Fraternitas Sacerdotalis Sancti Pii X, FSSPX) is a canonically irregular traditionalist Catholic fraternity of priests founded in 1970 by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.
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.
Abp. Marcel Lefebvre. The Priestly Society of Saint Pius X is a society of Catholic priests, founded by His Excellency, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1970. Its main objective is the formation of holy priests using the methods that the Church always used: the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, “The Mass of All Time”; the preaching of the Catholic ...
Mar 26, 1991 · Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, the traditionalist prelate whose defiance of Pope John Paul II caused the first schism in the Roman Catholic Church since 1870, died today in Martigny, Switzerland. He...
Home | Marcel Lefebvre. biography A bishop for the Church. the man We have believed in charity. doctrine I have handed on that which I received.
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.
Marcel Lefebvre (1905 – 1991) was a French Roman Catholic archbishop. Following a career as an Apostolic Delegate for West Africa and Superior General of the Holy Ghost Fathers , he took the lead in opposing the changes within the Church associated with the Second Vatican Council .
Marcel Lefebvre, né le 29 novembre 1905 à Tourcoing et mort le 25 mars 1991 à Martigny , est un homme d'Église français. À partir des années 1960, il est une figure majeure du catholicisme traditionaliste.
