The SSPX today
The SSPX today
On 1 January 2007, the Society had, according to one of its websites,[28] 473 member priests established in 31 countries, 68 brothers, 157 religious sisters, 74 oblates, 190 seminarians in six international seminaries, 3 minor seminaries, 159 priories, more than 720 Mass centers regularly-served, nine retreat houses, 14 major schools, and at least 70 connected to priories or chapels, along with 2 university institutes. The priests based in its priories also travel to many other centres to offer Tridentine Mass. To put these figures in context, the Legionaries of Christ, a relatively recent non-Traditionalist Catholic priestly association, founded in 1941 and in full harmony with the Holy See, adds in single ordination ceremonies more than 50 new priests to its membership (Cardinal Rodé ordains 55 new Legionary priests (The article mentions, in passing, the ordination of 59 Legionaries by the same cardinal in another year.)) of "more than 450 priests". The SSPX main seminary is in Ecône, Switzerland; others are located in the United States (Winona), France (Flavigny-sur-Ozerain), Germany (Zaitzkofen), Australia (Goulburn), and Argentina (La Reja).
In the past, the SSPX received support from the following diocesan bishops:
* Antônio de Castro Mayer, Bishop of Campos, Brazil
* Salvador Lazo, Bishop of San Fernando de la Union, Philippines
* John Bosco Manat Chuabsamai, Bishop of Ratchaburi, Thailand
It was closely associated with the Priestly Union of St Jean-Marie Vianney, founded by Bishop Antônio de Castro Mayer, until this group reconciled with the Holy See in 2001 under the direction of Bishop Licínio Rangel.
It now has close links with the Priestly Society of Saint Josaphat, led by Father Basil Kovpak, a priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church whom Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, Major Archbishop of that Eastern Catholic Church, declared to have "ceased to belong to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, and the Catholic Church in general",[29] an excommunication that the Sacra Rota Romana, to which Fr. Kovpak appealed, declared null on procedural grounds. The SSPX has links also with various other "unattached" priests and religious who say they share its Traditionalist Catholic emphasis on law, liturgy and catechism.
Archbishop Lefebvre, who as superior general had been unable to impose his will on the representatives of the Holy Ghost Fathers at their September 1968 general chapter,[30] gave the Society a statute that excludes elected representatives from SSPX general chapters, in which the only participants are office-holders (appointed personally by the superior general) together with (in a more limited number) the most senior members. There are similar restrictions within the Districts into which the Society is divided.
Source : wikipedia
On 1 January 2007, the Society had, according to one of its websites,[28] 473 member priests established in 31 countries, 68 brothers, 157 religious sisters, 74 oblates, 190 seminarians in six international seminaries, 3 minor seminaries, 159 priories, more than 720 Mass centers regularly-served, nine retreat houses, 14 major schools, and at least 70 connected to priories or chapels, along with 2 university institutes. The priests based in its priories also travel to many other centres to offer Tridentine Mass. To put these figures in context, the Legionaries of Christ, a relatively recent non-Traditionalist Catholic priestly association, founded in 1941 and in full harmony with the Holy See, adds in single ordination ceremonies more than 50 new priests to its membership (Cardinal Rodé ordains 55 new Legionary priests (The article mentions, in passing, the ordination of 59 Legionaries by the same cardinal in another year.)) of "more than 450 priests". The SSPX main seminary is in Ecône, Switzerland; others are located in the United States (Winona), France (Flavigny-sur-Ozerain), Germany (Zaitzkofen), Australia (Goulburn), and Argentina (La Reja).
In the past, the SSPX received support from the following diocesan bishops:
* Antônio de Castro Mayer, Bishop of Campos, Brazil
* Salvador Lazo, Bishop of San Fernando de la Union, Philippines
* John Bosco Manat Chuabsamai, Bishop of Ratchaburi, Thailand
It was closely associated with the Priestly Union of St Jean-Marie Vianney, founded by Bishop Antônio de Castro Mayer, until this group reconciled with the Holy See in 2001 under the direction of Bishop Licínio Rangel.
It now has close links with the Priestly Society of Saint Josaphat, led by Father Basil Kovpak, a priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church whom Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, Major Archbishop of that Eastern Catholic Church, declared to have "ceased to belong to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, and the Catholic Church in general",[29] an excommunication that the Sacra Rota Romana, to which Fr. Kovpak appealed, declared null on procedural grounds. The SSPX has links also with various other "unattached" priests and religious who say they share its Traditionalist Catholic emphasis on law, liturgy and catechism.
Archbishop Lefebvre, who as superior general had been unable to impose his will on the representatives of the Holy Ghost Fathers at their September 1968 general chapter,[30] gave the Society a statute that excludes elected representatives from SSPX general chapters, in which the only participants are office-holders (appointed personally by the superior general) together with (in a more limited number) the most senior members. There are similar restrictions within the Districts into which the Society is divided.
Source : wikipedia
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