Moisés Carmona

Moisés Carmona y Rivera (31 October 1912 – 1 November 1991) was a traditionalist Catholic bishop from Acapulco, Mexico who was a proponent of sedevacantism, which holds that the papacy after the death of Pope Pius XII is vacant. He was one of the bishops consecrated by Bishop Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục.[1]

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Carmona and the second or maternal family name is Rivera.
His Excellency, the Most Reverend

Moisés Carmona
Orders
Ordination1939
Consecration17 October 1981
by Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục
Personal details
Birth nameMoisés Carmona y Rivera
Born31 October 1912
Quechultenango, Guerrero, Mexico
Died1 November 1991
Mexico
NationalityMexican
DenominationSedevacantism
Styles of
Moisés Carmona
Reference style
Spoken styleYour Excellency
Religious styleBishop
Ordination history of
Moisés Carmona
History
Priestly ordination
Date1939
PlaceMexico
Episcopal consecration
Consecrated byPierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục
Date17 October 1981
PlaceToulon, France
Episcopal succession
Bishops consecrated by Moisés Carmona as principal consecrator
George Musey1 April 1982
Benigno Bravo18 June 1982
Roberto Martínez y Gutiérrez18 June 1982
Mark Pivarunas24 September 1991

Biography

Moisés Carmona was born in Quechultenango, Guerrero, Mexico, and was ordained a diocesan priest in 1939.[2]

When the reforms of the Second Vatican Council came to his Mexican parish in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he refused to conform. Influenced by his friend, Fr. Joaquin Saenz Arriaga (who came to the conclusion that the Second Vatican Council had established a new religion and that Paul VI was a false pope), Carmona came to embrace Fr. Saenz's ideas, and was excommunicated and removed from his post as pastor of Divine Providence parish by Rafael Bello Ruiz, the bishop of Acapulco, on April 30, 1977. With the support of his 2,000 parishioners and due to Mexican law, Father Carmona was able to keep his parish church despite his excommunication.[3]

Carmona, along with Fathers Joaquin Saenz Arriaga and Adolfo Zamora, formed the Union Catolica Trento.[4]

On October 17, 1981, Fathers Carmona and Zamora were consecrated bishop by the sedevacantist Vietnamese traditionalist Roman Catholic bishop Ngô Đình Thục in Toulon, France.[5]

Bishop Carmona then proceeded to consecrate other bishops for the sedevacantist movement. They were Mexicans Benigno Bravo and Roberto Martinez y Gutiérrez and Americans George Musey and Mark Pivarunas, CMRI.[6]

Carmona died November 1, 1991 from injuries sustained in an automobile accident in Mexico.

References
  1. "In Defense of My Episcopal Consecration (A Letter of Bishop Moises Carmona)". Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
  2. Eberhard Heller In Erinnerung an Bischof Moises Camora Rivera. In: Einsicht 21 (1991) pag. 89-98.
  3. Ruby, Griff (2002). The Resurrection of the Roman Catholic Church: A guide to the Traditional Catholic community. iUniverse. p. 138. ISBN 9780595250189.
  4. Ruby, Griff (2002). The Resurrection of the Roman Catholic Church: A guide to the Traditional Catholic community. iUniverse. p. 142. ISBN 9780595250189.
  5. Cuneo, Michael F. (1997). The Smoke of Satan: Conservative and Traditionalist Dissent in Contemporary American Catholicism. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. p. 99. ISBN 9780195113501.
  6. Cuneo, Michael F. (1997). The Smoke of Satan: Conservative and Traditionalist Dissent in Contemporary American Catholicism. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. p. 101, 105. ISBN 9780195113501.
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