Moisés Carmona

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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Carmona and the second or maternal family name is Rivera.
His Excellency, the Most Reverend

Moisés Carmona y Rivera
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ChurchIglesia Divina Providencia (Divine Providence Church), Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico
Orders
OrdinationNovember 1939
by Leopoldo Díaz y Escudero
Consecration17 October 1981
by Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục
Personal details
Birth nameMoisés Carmona y Rivera
Born31 October 1912
Quechultenango, Guerrero, Mexico
Died1 November 1991 (aged 79)
Mexico
NationalityMexican
DenominationSedevacantist Catholic
Ordination history of
Moisés Carmona
History
Priestly ordination
Ordained byLeopoldo Díaz y Escudero
DateNovember 1939
PlaceMexico
Episcopal consecration
Consecrated byPierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục
Date17 October 1981
PlaceToulon, France
Episcopal succession
Bishops consecrated by Moisés Carmona as principal consecrator
George Musey1 April 1982
Benigno Bravo18 June 1982
Roberto Martínez y Gutiérrez18 June 1982
Mark Pivarunas, CMRI24 September 1991
Styles of
Moisés Carmona y Rivera
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Reference style
Spoken styleYour Excellency
Religious styleYour Excellency

Moisés Carmona y Rivera (31 October 1912 – 1 November 1991) was a sedevacantist traditionalist Catholic bishop from Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico, who propagated sedevacantism in Mexico. He was one of the bishops consecrated by the Vietnamese sedevacantist bishop Ngô Đình Thục.[1][2][3][4]

Biography[]

Early life and family[]

Moisés Carmona y Rivera was born in Quechultenango, Guerrero, Mexico. He grew up in a poor family. His father, Nicolás Carmona, the administrator of an estate, died in April 1914, during the days of the Mexican Revolution, leaving Moisés, who was only one year and six months of age, to his mother, Maria Rivera, who in her precarious condition had the support of her sister-in-law, Natividad Carmona, a rural teacher and sister of the deceased Nicolás Carmona, who took over the small Moisés.[1]

Priesthood[]

In November 1939, Carmona was ordained a priest by Bishop Leopoldo Díaz y Escudero of Chilapa[1][5] (the Diocese of Acapulco was only split from the Diocese of Chilapa in 1958).

Carmona became a seminary professor.[1][6]

Sedevacantism[]

When the reforms of the Second Vatican Council came to his parish, Iglesia Divina Providencia (Divine Providence Church), Carmona refused to conform.[1]

In the 1970s, he, along with Sáenz and Father Adolfo Zamora, formed the [7] (Unión Católica Trento).

Episcopacy[]

In 1981, Carmona and Zamora were brought by the German sedevacantists Doctor Eberhard Heller and Doctor Kurt Hiller to the Vietnamese sedevacantist bishop Ngô Đình Thục in Toulon, France. Thục consecrated them bishops[3] in Toulon on 17 October 1981.[2][4][8]

Carmona had extensive trips throughout Mexico, founding sedevacantist communities and providing the Mass and sacraments for them. He formed and ordained priests[9] and consecrated four bishops: the Mexicans Benigno Bravo and Roberto Martinez y Gutiérrez and the Americans George Musey and Mark Pivarunas, CMRI.[8]

Death, burials, and aftermath[]

On 1 November 1991, Carmona died from injuries sustained in an automobile accident in Mexico. He was buried some miles from the Divine Providence Church.[10]

In 1996, Carmona's body was exhumed and transferred by Father (later Bishop) Martín Dávila Gandara[11] of the SST to a crypt in a lower chapel below the Divine Providence Church. It is claimed that during the transference, Carmona's body showed no signs of decomposition, and that pictures taken of him when his body was put into the crypt looked the same at the time of his funeral.[10]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e Schmitt, Oskar (2006). Ein würdiger Verwalter im Weinberg unseres Herrn Jesus Christus: Bischof Pierre Martin Ngô-dinh-Thuc. Books on Demand. p. 201. ISBN 9783833453854.
  2. ^ a b Einsicht (May 1983). Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  3. ^ a b Vatican. "Notification". In L’Osservatore Romano, English Edition, 18 April 1983, Page 12.
  4. ^ a b Most Rev. Ngô Đình Thục. Consecration certificate of Most Rev. Moisés Carmona. 18 October 1981.
  5. ^ Dr. Eberhard Heller. "In Erinnerung an Bischof Moises Camora Rivera". In: Einsicht 21 (1991) pag. 89-98.
  6. ^ "Curriculum Vitae del R.P. Moises Carmona Rivera," Einsicht, German ed., (Mar., 1982), p.24
  7. ^ Gary L. Ward, Bertil Persson, and Alain Bain, eds., Independent Bishops: An International Directory [Detroit, MI: Apogee Books, 1990].
  8. ^ a b Cuneo, Michael F. (1997). The Smoke of Satan: Conservative and Traditionalist Dissent in Contemporary American Catholicism. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. p. 99. ISBN 9780195113501.
  9. ^ Rev. Daniel Pérez Gómez. "Origin and development of the Priestly Society of Trent".
  10. ^ a b "Adsum" (October 2016). Mater Dei Seminary. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
  11. ^ Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen (CMRI). "Biographical Sketch of Bishop Martín Dávila Gándara".
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