Mgr marcel lefebvre the biography of jesus

In , Pope John Paul II declared that Archbishop Lefebvre had "incurred the grave penalty of excommunication envisaged by ecclesiastical law " for consecrating four bishops against the pope's express prohibition [ 3 ] but, according to Lefebvre, in reliance on an "agreement given by the Holy See Ordained a diocesan priest in , he had joined the Holy Ghost Fathers for missionary work and was assigned to teach at a seminary in Gabon in He was a major leader of the conservative bloc during its proceedings.

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He later took the lead in opposing certain changes within the church associated with the council. He refused to implement council-inspired reforms demanded by the Holy Ghost Fathers and resigned from its leadership in In , after a flare of tensions with the Holy See, Lefebvre was ordered to disband the society, but ignored the decision and continued to maintain its activities and existence.

The Holy See immediately declared that he and the other bishops who had participated in the ceremony had incurred automatic excommunication under Catholic canon law , [ b ] which Lefebvre refused to acknowledge. Marcel Lefebvre was born in Tourcoing , Nord. His parents were devout Catholics who brought their children to daily Mass.

In Lefebvre began studies for the priesthood; at the insistence of his father he followed his brother to the French Seminary in Rome , as his father suspected the diocesan seminaries of liberal leanings.

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John Lateran in Rome. Lefebvre's first assignment as a Holy Ghost Father was as a professor at St. John's Seminary in Libreville , Gabon. He served as superior of a number of missions of the Holy Ghost Fathers in Gabon. On 22 September , Lefebvre, while continuing as Vicar Apostolic of Dakar , received the additional responsibilities of Apostolic Delegate to French Africa , with his title changed to titular archbishop of Arcadiopolis in Europa.

In the late s, Lefebvre established a ministry in Paris to care for Catholic students from the French colonies in Africa.