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One of the four 1988 bishops; principal consecrator of the 2026 Écône consecrations.[1] [3]
Position in the episcopal genealogy
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SSPX line — from Marcel Lefebvre
Écône, 30 June 1988; principal consecrator of the 2026 consecrations (co-consecrator: Fellay)
Recorded events
6 dated events in this chronology name this figure or have them as their unambiguous actor. A ? flag marks a date not yet verified against a primary source.
| Year | Date | Place | Event |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 1988-06-30 | Écône | The Écône consecrations — Lefebvre, with Bishop Antônio de Castro Mayer (emeritus of Campos, Brazil) as co-consecrator, consecrates Bernard Fellay, Bernard Tissier de Mallerais, Richard Williamson and Alfonso de Galarreta without papal mandate.[1] |
| 1988 | 1988-07-01 | Rome | Excommunications declared — The Congregation for Bishops declares that Lefebvre, Castro Mayer and the four new bishops incurred latae sententiae excommunication.[1] [4] |
| 1991 | 1991-07-28 | São Fidélis, Brazil | Rangel consecrated for the Campos union — Licínio Rangel is consecrated without papal mandate by Bishop Tissier de Mallerais, assisted by de Galarreta and Williamson, to lead the Campos priests after Castro Mayer's death.[10] [11] |
| 2009 | 2009-01-21 | Rome | 1988 excommunications remitted — A decree of the Congregation for Bishops (dated 21 January, published 24 January) lifts the excommunications of the four bishops; some sources cite 10 March 2009, the date of Benedict XVI's explanatory letter.[5] |
| 2026 | 2026-07-01 | Écône | The 2026 Écône consecrations — Bishops de Galarreta and Fellay consecrate four new bishops — Pascal Schreiber, Michael Goldade, Michel Poinsinet de Sivry and Marc Hanappier — without papal mandate. The Society's own figure, relayed by Wikipedia, is some 15,000 faithful together with about 1,300 priests and religious; press estimates circulated at higher numbers and are not reconciled here.[3] [6] |
| 2026 | 2026-07-02 | Rome | New excommunications declared — A DDF decree declares the six bishops involved excommunicated latae sententiae, describes SSPX clergy as being in schism, and revokes the 2015–2017 confession and marriage provisions; the SSPX rejects the decree as 'objectively unjust and invalid'. Press summaries differ on how the decree treats priests and laity — each reading is attributed.[7] [8] [9] |
Sources cited on this page
13 sources · 13 with an Internet Archive fallback, numbered for this page. Sources span the spectrum of perspectives by design; contested claims are attributed to their authors.
- Society of Saint Pius X · 🗄 archived 2026-07-07
- Marcel Lefebvre · 🗄 archived 2026-07-16
- 2026 Écône consecrations · 🗄 archived 2026-07-08
- Ecclesia Dei — Apostolic Letter of John Paul II (2 July 1988) · 🗄 archived 2026-11-02
- Decree remitting the excommunication of the four bishops (Congregation for Bishops, 21 January 2009) · 🗄 archived 2026-10-12
- SSPX ordains four new bishops in defiance of Pope Leo and the Vatican (1 July 2026) · 🗄 archived 2026-07-16
- Vatican declares SSPX bishops, priests schismatic; says lay faithful risk excommunication · 🗄 archived 2026-07-17
- Vatican confirms six SSPX bishops excommunicated · 🗄 archived 2026-07-03
- SSPX rejects Vatican's excommunication, calls it 'objectively unjust and invalid' · 🗄 archived 2026-07-14
- Licínio Rangel · 🗄 archived 2026-06-10
- Personal Apostolic Administration of Saint John Mary Vianney · 🗄 archived 2026-07-02
- Achille Cardinal Liénart — episcopal record (dates, offices, consecrators) · 🗄 archived 2026-07-07
- Fr. Douglas Laudenschlager, 'The validity of holy orders', The Angelus, February 1978 · 🗄 archived 2026-11-02