Moisés Carmona 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]
Moisés Carmona Rivera | |
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| Church | Iglesia Divina Providencia (Divine Providence Church), Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico |
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| Ordination | November 1939 by Leopoldo Díaz y Escudero |
| Consecration | 17 October 1981 by Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục |
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| Born | Moisés Carmona y Rivera 31 October 1912 Quechultenango, Guerrero, Mexico |
| Died | 1 November 1991 Mexico |
| Denomination | Sedevacantist Catholic |
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Biography
editPriesthood
editIn November 1939, Carmona was ordained a priest by Bishop Leopoldo Díaz y Escudero of Chilapa[4] (the Diocese of Acapulco was only split from the Diocese of Chilapa in 1958).
Carmona became a seminary professor.[5]
Sedevacantism
editIn the 1970s, he, along with Father Joaquín Sáenz y Arriaga and Father Adolfo Zamora, formed the Tridentine Catholic Union (Union Católica Trento).[1]
Episcopacy
editIn 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][6]
Carmona formed consecrated four bishops: the Mexicans Benigno Bravo and Roberto Martinez y Gutiérrez, and the Americans George Musey and Mark Pivarunas, CMRI.[6]
Death, burials, and aftermath
editBishop Carmona died on 1 November 1991, aged 79, from injuries sustained in an automobile accident.[7]
In 1996, Carmona's body was exhumed and transferred by Father (later Bishop) Martín Dávila Gandara 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.[7]
References
edit- ^ a b Ward, Gary L.; Persson, Bertil; Bain, Alan, eds. (1990). "Rivera, Moisés Carmona". Independent Bishops: An International Directory. Preface by J. Gordon Melton. Apogee Books. p. 343. ISBN 978-1-55888-307-9.
- ^ a b Einsicht (May 1983). Retrieved 16 October 2021.
- ^ a b Vatican. "Notification". In L’Osservatore Romano, English Edition, 18 April 1983, Page 12.
- ^ Dr. Eberhard Heller. "In Erinnerung an Bischof Moises Camora Rivera". In: Einsicht 21 (1991) pag. 89-98.
- ^ "Curriculum Vitae del R.P. Moises Carmona Rivera," Einsicht, German ed., (Mar., 1982), p.24
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b "Adsum (October 2016)" (PDF). Mater Dei Seminary. Retrieved 16 February 2021.