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Timeline: Ecclesia Dei communities, Marcel Lefebvre
Key moments in the traditionalist Catholic world — councils and documents, communities and their founders, media launches and controversies — each with its sources.
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1988
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John Paul II issues Ecclesia Dei after Lefebvre's episcopal ordinations
Two days after Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre's unlawful episcopal ordinations of 30 June, John Paul II's motu proprio stated that excommunication had been incurred, created the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, and asked for a "wide and generous application" of the permissions for the 1962 Missal.