Luis Fernando Castillo Méndez
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His Holiness, His Beatitude Luis Fernando Castillo Méndez |
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| Patriarch of Worldwide Communion of Catholic Apostolic Churches | |
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| Church | Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church |
| Archdiocese | Brasilia |
| Province | Districto Federal |
| Installed | 26 March 1961 |
| Term ended | 29 October 2009 |
| Predecessor | Carlos Duarte Costa |
| Successor | David Gordon Bell |
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| Ordination | 10 August 1944 by Valentín Comellas y Santamaria |
| Consecration | 3 May 1948 by Carlos Duarte Costa |
| Rank | Patriarch-Primate |
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| Born | 4 December 1922 Caracas, Venezuela |
| Died | 29 October 2009 (aged 86) Brasilia, Brazil |
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Venezuelan (1922-1961) Brazilian (1961-death) |
| Denomination | Independent Catholicism, excommunicated Roman Catholic |
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Styles of Luis Fernando Castillo Mendez |
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| Reference style | His Holiness, His Beatitude |
| Spoken style | Your Holiness, Your Beatitude |
| Religious style | Archbishop-Patriarch |
| Posthumous style | The Honorable and Reverend |
| Ordination history of Luis Fernando Castillo Mendez | |
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Priestly ordination
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| Ordained by | Valentín Comellas y Santamaria |
| Date of ordination | 10 August 1944 |
| Place of ordination | Solsona, Spain |
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Episcopal consecration
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| Principal consecrator | Carlos Duarte Costa |
| Co-consecrators |
Salomão Barbosa Ferraz Jose Vargas Antidio |
| Date of consecration | 3 May 1948 |
| Place of consecration | Balboa, Panama |
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Bishops consecrated by as principal consecrator
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| Forest Ernest Barber | 30 January 1985 |
| Bertil Persson | 14 June 1987 |
| Claude R. Baron | 1988 |
| Justo Roque González | 1989 |
| José Villegas | 1989 |
| Charles-Rafaël Payeur | 1990 |
| Guillermo Antonio Pacheco Bornacelli | 15 July 2005 |
| David Bell | 23 October 2009 |
Luis Fernando Castillo Méndez (December 4, 1922 - October 29, 2009) was a Venezuelan Roman Catholic priest and the 2nd Patriarch of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church (ICAB - Igreja Católica Apostólica Brasileira), an independent catholic church. The Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church lists 48 dioceses, and is the mother church of the Worldwide Communion of Catholic Apostolic National Churches (WCCAC) a loose communion of churches in 14 countries.
He had been a Roman Catholic priest from August 10, 1944 until March 8, 1947, when Castillo Méndez left the Roman Catholic Church and the archdiocese of Caracas to become the founder of the independent Venezuelan Catholic Apostolic Church (ICAV - Iglesia Católica Apostólica Venezolana). Castillo Méndez was subsequently excommunicated by the Holy See. On May 3, 1948 he was consecrated a bishop and Patriarch for the Venezuelan Catholic Apostolic Church by the bishop Carlos Duarte Costa (excommunicated former Roman Catholic bishop of Botucatu, Brazil), assisted by his independent auxiliary bishop Salomão Barbosa Ferraz, in the Panama Canal Zone. Castillo Méndez later succeeded Duarte Costa as Patriarch and became the President of the Episcopal Council of ICAB on 1982. He died on October 29, 2009 and was succeeded by Dom Josivaldo Perriera, the current Patriarch of the Church.
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