Archbishop lefebvre biography of mahatma

French traditionalist Catholic archbishop (1905–1991)

For the Canadian screenwriter, see Marcel Lefebvre (screenwriter).

Styles of Marcel Lefebvre
Reference style	His Excellency
Spoken style	Your Excellency

Marcel François Marie Joseph Lefebvre^[a]CSSpFSSPX (29 November 1905 – 25 March 1991) was a French Catholic archbishop who greatly influenced modern traditionalist Catholicism.

In 1970, five years after the close of the Second Vatican Council, he founded the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX),^[2] a community to train seminarians in the traditional manner, in the village of Écône, Switzerland.

In 1988, Pope John Paul II declared that Archbishop Lefebvre had "incurred the grave penalty of excommunication envisaged by ecclesiastical law" for consecrating four bishops against the pope's express prohibition^[3] but, according to Lefebvre, in reliance on an "agreement given by the Holy See ...

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