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Lorraine, France, under Fr. Michael Collin; also known as the Renewed
Church of Jesus Christ and the Apostles of Divine Love—Order of
the Mother of God; 1940s in Montreal, Canada, and since 1962 in St.
Jovite, Quebec; mission houses have been established throughout
Canada, the USA, the West Indies and Latin America; the current leader
is Pope Gregory XVII)
A2.505 Independent Catholic Church in Brazil (Mons. Salomao Ferraz,
1950s?)
A2.506 Catholic Apostolic Church in Brazil (Dom Carlos Duarte Costa,
1950s?)
A2.507 Chinese Catholic Church (Patriotic Association of Chinese Catholics,
founded in 1957 in the People’s Republic of China under the Communist
regime). Bishop Fu Tieshan was appointed by the State and is the leader of
about 4 million Catholics; another 10 million Catholics remain faithful to the
Pope and are under his jurisdiction.
A2.508 Hispanic-Brazilian Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, St. Pius X
(1958, Brooklyn, NY: Mons. Héctor Gonzáles).
The original name was the Puerto Rican National Catholic Church (1926), with a
loose affiliation with the Polish National Catholic Church in the USA; in 1961,
the former changed its name to the Holy Catholic Apostolic Church of Puerto
Rico as an affiliate of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Americas; in 1968
González withdrew from the latter and formed the Western Rite Vicariate with
parishes in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Brazil and the USA; the name
was latter changed to the United Hispanic Old Catholic Episcopate; after several
years of controversy, the official name was changed again to that used today.
A2.509 The Holy Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Church of Puerto Rico (1962)
A2.510 Society of St. Pius X (1967, Mons. Marcel Lefebvre: Econe, Switzerland)
During the 1970s and 1980s the movement spread to the USA and Canada,
where affiliated groups were formed; the movement claims about 150,000
adherents worldwide; Pope John Paul II excommunicated Bishop Lefebvre and
priests Bernard Fellay, Bernard Tissier de Mallerais, Richard Williamson and
Alfono de Galarreta; the movement also spread from Switzerland to France,
Brazil and other nations; these churches use the Traditional Tridentine Mass.
A2.5101 Sociedad Tradicionalista de St. Jean Vianney – Traditionalist
Society of St. Jean Vianney (1988, Campos, Brazil; Bishop Antonio de
Castro Mayer; he was followed by Bishop Luciano Rangel)
A2.511 Tridentine Latin-Rite Catholic Church (1968, Spokane, WA; affiliated
with the traditional movement of Pierre Martin Ngo-Dinh-Thuc, former
Bishop of Hue, Vietnam; rejects the authority of Pope John Paul II and
the innovations of Vatican II; a mission parish was formed in Mexico in
1981 under Moisés Carmona and Adolfo Zamora—see A2.515 below)
A2.512 Holy Palmarian Church – Santa Iglesia Palmera (1968, Troya, Spain;
Clemente Dominguez Gómez, who claimed to have witnessed apparitions
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