![]() He served as superior of a number of missions of the Holy Ghost Fathers in Gabon. On 28 September 1935 he made his perpetual vows. In 1934 he was made rector of the seminary. Lefebvre's first assignment as a Holy Ghost Father was as a professor at St. On 8 September 1932, he took simple vows for a period of three years. Liénart released him from the diocese in July 1931 and Lefebvre entered the novitiate of the Holy Ghost Fathers at Orly in September. Lefebvre asked to be allowed to perform missionary work as a member of the Holy Ghost Fathers, but in August 1930 Liénart required him to first work as assistant curate in a parish in Lomme, a suburb of Lille. After ordination, he continued his studies in Rome, completing a doctorate in theology in July 1930. On 21 September 1929 he was ordained a priest of Diocese of Lille by its bishop, Achille Liénart. On he was ordained deacon by Cardinal Basilio Pompili in the Basilica of St. He interrupted his studies in 19 to perform his military service. He later credited his conservative views to the rector, a Breton priest named Father Henri Le Floch. In 1923 Lefebvre began studies for the priesthood at the insistence of his father he followed his brother to the French Seminary in Rome, as his father suspected the diocesan seminaries of liberal leanings. ![]() ![]() René died at age 65 in 1944 in the German concentration camp at Sonnenburg, where he had been imprisoned by the Gestapo because of his work for the French Resistance and British Intelligence his body was never recovered. His father ran a spy-ring for British Intelligence when Tourcoing was occupied by the Germans during World War I. ![]() His father, René, was an outspoken monarchist, devoting his life to the cause of the French Dynasty, seeing in a monarchy the only way of restoring to his country its past grandeur and a Christian revival. His parents were devout Catholics who brought their children to daily Mass. He was the second son and third child of eight children of textile factory-owner René Lefebvre and Gabrielle, born Watine, who died in 1938. Marcel Lefebvre was born in Tourcoing, Nord. The Holy See immediately declared that he and the other bishops who had participated in the ceremony had incurred automatic excommunication under Catholic canon law, which Lefebvre refused to acknowledge. In 1988, against the express prohibition of Pope John Paul II, he consecrated four bishops to continue his work with the SSPX. In 1975, after a flare of tensions with the Holy See, Lefebvre was ordered to disband the society, but ignored the decision and continued to maintain its activities and existence. In 1970, he founded the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) as a small community of seminarians in the village of Écône, Switzerland, with the permission of the local bishop. He refused to implement council-inspired reforms demanded by the Holy Ghost Fathers and resigned from its leadership in 1968. He later took the lead in opposing certain changes within the church associated with the council. He was a major leader of the conservative bloc during its proceedings. Upon his return to Europe he was elected Superior General of the Holy Ghost Fathers and assigned to participate in the drafting and preparation of documents for the upcoming Second Vatican Council (1962–1965) announced by Pope John XXIII. In 1947, he was appointed Vicar Apostolic of Dakar, Senegal, and the next year as the Apostolic Delegate for West Africa. Ordained a diocesan priest in 1929, he had joined the Holy Ghost Fathers for missionary work and was assigned to teach at a seminary in Gabon in 1932. In 1988, he was excommunicated from the Catholic Church for consecrating four bishops against the express prohibition of Pope John Paul II. ![]() In 1970, he founded the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), a community to train seminarians, in the village of Écône, Switzerland. Marcel François Marie Joseph Lefebvre CSSp SSPX ( French: 29 November 1905 – 25 March 1991) was a French Catholic archbishop who greatly influenced modern traditional Catholicism. Bishops consecrated by Marcel Lefebvre as principal consecrator ![]()
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