Bernard Fellay

Mgr Bernard Fellay , born on April 12th, 1958 with Sierre in Suisse is a bishop traditionalist, higher general of the Sacerdotal Fraternité Saint-Magpie X.

Youth and ministry

It passed its maturity to the College of Royal the territorial Abbaye of Saint-Maurice d' Agaune Were worth some. It enters to the seminar of Écône in October 1977. It is ordered priest on June 29th, 1982 by Mgr Lefebvre. After its ordination, it is named general treasurer of the FSSPX. It remains at this station until 1988.

The sacring and excommunication

Devoted the June 30th 1988 by Mgr Marcel Lefebvre, it is excommunicated latae sententiae , i.e. by the fact even of the act posed.

The cardinal Bernardin Gantin, prefect of Sacrée Congrégation for the bishops, issues on July 1st 1988 by the decree Dominus Marcellus that Mgr Lefebvre “posed a schismatic act” while devoting without pontifical mandate. In support of its declaration, it quotes the guns 1382 and 1364-1 of the canonical Code of right (1983):

“The Bishop who, without pontifical mandate, devotes Évêque somebody, and the same that which receives the dedication of this Bishop incur excommunication latæ sententiæ reserved for the Apostolic Seat. ”

“The apostate of the faith, the heretic or the schismatic incur an excommunication latæ sententiæ. ”

He thus declares excommunicated Mgr Lefebvre itself, Mgr of Castro-Mayer, the bishop Co-consécrateur, and the four new bishops of which Mgr Bernard Fellay. The following day, by the Motu landlord Ecclesia Dei, Jean-Paul II reminds faithful that those which “adhere formally” to the Schisme incur them also the Excommunication.

Superior of the FSSPX

In July 1994, the general chapter of Fraternité Saint-Pie X elects it higher general for 12 years, following the Schmidberger abbot. In 2006, he is re-elected.

Shortly after its election, the pope Benoît XVI received it, on August 29th, 2005, at Castel Gandolfo, accompanied by the cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, in order to engage a process of reconciliation and rehabilitation of the Fraternité Saint-Pie X.

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