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Timeline: The Latin Mass movement, Marcel Lefebvre

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1988

  1. Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter founded after the Écône consecrations

    By its own account, the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter was founded at the Abbey of Hauterive in Switzerland by about a dozen priests and some twenty seminarians who did not follow Archbishop Lefebvre after the 30 June consecrations; John Paul II erected it canonically the same year.

    SourcesFigures (Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (fssp.org))Who We Are (Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, North American District (fssp.com))Apostolic Letter "Ecclesia Dei" of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II given Motu… (Holy See (vatican.va))

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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.

    SourceApostolic Letter "Ecclesia Dei" of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II given Motu… (Holy See (vatican.va))