UK: Traditionalist Bishop Excommunicated From Catholic Church For Unsanctioned Ordination

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Canon 1382 in the Code of Canon Law dictates that a bishop who ordains another bishop without papal consent incurs a latae sententiae, or automatic, excommunication. 

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Source/Credit:  The Huffington Post
By Antonia Blumberg | March 20, 2015

British Bishop Richard Williamson was automatically excommunicated from the Catholic Church on Thursday for conducting an ordination ceremony unsanctioned by the pope, according to news reports.

Williamson, 75, consecrated Father Jean-Michel Faure a bishop during a ceremony in Nova Friburgo, Brazil, on Thursday, the feast of St. Joseph. Canon 1382 in the Code of Canon Law dictates that a bishop who ordains another bishop without papal consent incurs a latae sententiae, or automatic, excommunication.

By canon law, Faure, 73, will also incur automatic excommunication for participating in the ceremony.

Vatican officials did not respond to The Huffington Post's request for comment on Friday.

The excommunication is only the latest bump in the bishop's controversial career. Williamson was previously excommunicated in 1988 for receiving his own unsanctioned consecration from French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who founded the Society of St. Pius X. Lefebvre, and three other bishops he ordained on the same day as Williamson, were also excommunicated.

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