Sedevacantism is a traditionalist Catholic movement which holds that since the death of Pius XII the alleged occupiers of the Holy See are not valid popes due to their espousal of one or more heresies and that, for lack of a valid pope, the See of Rome is thus vacant. Sedevacantism owes its origins to the rejection of the theological and disciplinary changes implemented following the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965).
Clemente Domínguez y Gómez was a founder of Palmarian Christianity, a religion found mainly in Spain, and was believed by some to be a mystic. Under the name Pope Gregory XVII, he led the Palmarian Church, which, he argued, Jesus intended to replace the Roman Catholic Church during the end times. His claims were not taken seriously by Roman Catholics and other Christians, the vast majority of whom were unaware of his existence. Palmarianism has continued to the present day, with fewer followers than it possessed during Dominguez's lifetime.
Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Huế, South Vietnam, and later a sedevacantist bishop who was excommunicated by the Holy See but is believed to have reconciled with the Holy See before his death in 1984. He was a member of the Ngô family who ruled South Vietnam in the years leading up to the Vietnam War. He was the founder of Dalat University. Today, various Independent Catholic and sedevacantist groups claim to have derived their apostolic succession from Thục.
The Palmarian Church, officially registered as the Palmarian Christian Church and also known as the Palmarian Catholic Church, is a Christian church with an episcopal see in El Palmar de Troya, Andalusia, Spain. The Palmarian Church claims to be the exclusive One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church founded by Jesus Christ. It claims that the Holy See, the institution of the Papacy and the headquarters of the Catholic Church was moved to El Palmar de Troya at the Cathedral-Basilica of Our Crowned Mother of Palmar, under the auspices of the Patriarchate of El Palmar de Troya, in 1978, due to the apostasy of the Roman Catholic Church from the Catholic faith.
Most Rev Dr Michael Patrick Cox, MA, OMD is an Irish independent bishop. From Mitchelstown, County Cork, he is a well-known member of the Independent Catholic movement in Ireland and is also known for ordaining the singer Sinéad O'Connor. He is the founder and bishop superior of the Irish Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church.
Manuel Alonso Corral, known by his religious name as Isidoro María and by his papal name as Peter II, was the Pope of the Palmarian Christian Church, a conclavist group excommunicated by the Catholic Church, from 2005 to 2011.
The Cathedral-Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar is a Catholic church in the city of Zaragoza, Aragon (Spain). The basilica's titular is the Blessed Virgin Mary under the title of Our Lady of the Pillar, praised as "Mother of the Hispanic Peoples" by Pope John Paul II. It is reputed to be the first church dedicated to Mary in history.
Utrera is a municipality in south-west Spain. It is in the province of Seville, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. As of 2018 it has a population of 52,617.
As part of the worldwide Catholic Church, the Catholic Church in the Philippines, or the Filipino Catholic Church, is under the spiritual direction of the Pope. The Philippines is one of the two nations in Asia having a substantial portion of the population professing the Catholic faith, along with East Timor, and has the third largest Catholic population in the world after Brazil and Mexico. The episcopal conference responsible in governing the faith is the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP).
Camilo Leandro Estévez Puga de Maside was a bishop of the Palmarian Catholic Church. He was ordained a Roman Catholic Priest in Galicia, Spain and consecrated a bishop for the then Carmelite Order of the Holy Face on January 11, 1976, at El Palmar de Troya, Spain by Roman Catholic Archbishop Ngo Dinh Thuc Pierre Martin.
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The comarca of Bajo Guadalquivir is a comarca in the province of Seville, in Andalucia, Spain. A Spanish comarca is roughly the equivalent of a county in the United States or Canada, a riding in the United Kingdom, or a Landkreis in Germany.
Christianity has a strong tradition of pilgrimages, both to sites relevant to the New Testament narrative and to sites associated with later saints or miracles.
Ginés Jesús Hernández y Martínez, known by his religious name as Sergio María and by his papal name as Gregory XVIII, is the former Pope of the Palmarian Christian Church. Hernández was in office from 2011 until his 2016 abdication.
Pope Peter III may refer to:
Joseph Odermatt, known by his religious name as Eliseo María and by his papal name as Peter III, is a Swiss Independent Catholic prelate and the current Antipope of the Palmarian Church. Odermatt succeeded Ginés Jesús Hernández after Hernández left the Palmarian Church and returned to the Roman Catholic Church.
El Palmar is a village and the most populated district in Murcia, Spain. It is part of the municipality of Murcia. 24,266 people resided in the territory in 2020. There are two hypotheses about the district name. According to the first one, the name is due to the presence of palm trees and European fan palms. The other hypothesis consists of the name deriving from El Palomar, a name that appears in historic documents of the 16th century, as the origin of the toponym.
The Cathedral-Basilica of Our Crowned Mother of Palmar is a basilica church in El Palmar de Troya, Spain. The church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary under the title of Our Lady of Palmar, serves as the only cathedral and 'mother church' for the Palmarian Christian Church, a schismatic Independent Catholic denomination not in communion with the Vatican.
Our Lady of Palmar, known formally as Our Crowned Mother of Palmar, is a Palmarian Christian title of the Blessed Virgin Mary associated with an alleged Marian apparition in the Spanish village of El Palmar de Troya in 1968. The apparition is not recognized by the Roman Catholic Church but is recognized by the Palmarian Christian Church, a schismatic Independent Catholic denomination. The Cathedral-Basilica of Our Crowned Mother of Palmar, the mother church of the Palmarian Christian Church, serves as the major shrine of Our Lady of Palmar and was built on the site of the alleged apparition.
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