His Grace, The Most Reverend Marcel-François Lefebvre SSPX |
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Archbishop-Bishop emeritus of Tulle | |
Lefebvre in 1981
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Diocese | Diocese of Tulle |
See | Tulle |
Appointed | 23 January 1962 |
Term ended | 7 August 1962 |
Predecessor | Aimable Chassaigne |
Successor | Henri Clément Victor Donze |
Other posts | Founder and Superior General of the Society of Saint Pius X (1970–1982) |
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Ordination | 21 September 1929 by Achille Liènart |
Consecration | 18 September 1947 by Achille Liènart |
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Birth name | Marcel-François Marie Joseph Lefebvre |
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Tourcoing, France |
29 November 1905
Died | 25 March 1991 Martigny, Switzerland |
(aged 85)
Buried | International Seminary of Saint Pius X, Écône, Switzerland |
Nationality | French |
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Parents | René Lefebvre, Gabrielle Watine |
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Alma mater | (Pontifical) French Seminary, Rome |
Motto | Credidimus caritati |
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Ordination history of Marcel Lefebvre | |
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Priestly ordination
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Ordained by | Achille Cardinal Liénart |
Date of ordination | 21 September 1929 |
Episcopal consecration
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Principal consecrator | Achille Cardinal Liénart |
Co-consecrator | Alfred-Jean-Félix Ancel |
Co-consecrator | Jean-Baptiste Victor Fauret |
Date of consecration | 18 September 1947 |
Bishops consecrated by Marcel Lefebvre as principal consecrator
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Georges-Henri Guibert | 19 February 1950 |
Prosper Dodds | 26 October 1952 |
François Ndong | 2 July 1961 |
Bernard Tissier de Mallerais | 30 June 1988 |
Richard Williamson | 30 June 1988 |
Alfonso de Galarreta | 30 June 1988 |
Bernard Fellay | 30 June 1988 |
Marcel François Marie Joseph Lefebvre (French: [maʁsɛl fʁɑ̃swɑ maʁi josɛf ləfɛːvʁ]; 29 November 1905 – 25 March 1991) was a French Roman Catholic archbishop.
Ordained a diocesan priest in 1929, he joined the Holy Ghost Fathers for missionary work and was assigned to teach at a seminary in Gabon in 1932. In 1947, he was appointed Vicar Apostolic of Dakar, Senegal, and the next year as the Apostolic Delegate for West Africa.
Upon his return to Europe he was elected Superior General of the Holy Ghost Fathers and assigned to participate in the drafting and preparation of documents for the upcoming Second Vatican Council (1962–65) announced by Pope John XXIII, and was a major leader of the conservative bloc during its proceedings. He would later take the lead in opposing certain changes within the Church associated with the Council. Refusing to implement council-inspired reforms demanded by its members, he resigned from the leadership of the Holy Ghost Fathers in 1968.
In 1970, Lefebvre founded the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) as a small community of seminarians in the village of Écône, Switzerland, with the permission of Bishop François Charrière of Fribourg. In 1975, after a flare of tensions with the Holy See, Lefebvre was ordered to disband the society, but ignored the decision.