Moisés Carmona

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Carmona and the second or maternal family name is Rivera.
Moisés Carmona Rivera
ChurchIglesia Divina Providencia (Divine Providence Church), Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico
Orders
OrdinationNovember 1939
by Leopoldo Díaz y Escudero
Consecration17 October 1981
by Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục
Personal details
Born
Moisés Carmona y Rivera

31 October 1912
Quechultenango, Guerrero, Mexico
Died1 November 1991
Mexico
DenominationSedevacantist Catholic
Ordination history of
Moisés Carmona
History
Priestly ordination
Ordained byLeopoldo Díaz y Escudero
DateNovember 1939
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 Pivarunas, CMRI24 September 1991

Moisés Carmona Rivera (31 October 1912 – 1 November 1991) was a sedevacantist traditionalist Catholic bishop from Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico, who propagated sedevacantism in Mexico. He was one of the bishops consecrated by the Vietnamese sedevacantist bishop Ngô Đình Thục.[1][2][3]

Biography

Priesthood

In November 1939, Carmona was ordained a priest by Bishop Leopoldo Díaz y Escudero of Chilapa[4] (the Diocese of Acapulco was only split from the Diocese of Chilapa in 1958).

Carmona became a seminary professor.[5]

Sedevacantism

In the 1970s, he, along with Father Joaquín Sáenz y Arriaga and Father Adolfo Zamora, formed the Tridentine Catholic Union (Union Católica Trento).[1]

Episcopacy

In 1981, Carmona and Zamora were brought by the German sedevacantists Doctor Eberhard Heller and Doctor Kurt Hiller to the Vietnamese sedevacantist bishop Ngô Đình Thục in Toulon, France. Thục consecrated them bishops[3] in Toulon on 17 October 1981.[2][6]

Carmona formed consecrated four bishops: the Mexicans Benigno Bravo and Roberto Martinez y Gutiérrez, and the Americans George Musey and Mark Pivarunas, CMRI.[6]

Death, burials, and aftermath

Bishop Carmona died on 1 November 1991, aged 79, from injuries sustained in an automobile accident.[7]

In 1996, Carmona's body was exhumed and transferred by Father (later Bishop) Martín Dávila Gandara of the SST to a crypt in a lower chapel below the Divine Providence Church. It is claimed that during the transference, Carmona's body showed no signs of decomposition, and that pictures taken of him when his body was put into the crypt looked the same at the time of his funeral.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b Ward, Gary L.; Persson, Bertil; Bain, Alan, eds. (1990). "Rivera, Moisés Carmona". Independent Bishops: An International Directory. Preface by J. Gordon Melton. Apogee Books. p. 343. ISBN 978-1-55888-307-9.
  2. ^ a b Einsicht (May 1983). Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  3. ^ a b Vatican. "Notification". In L’Osservatore Romano, English Edition, 18 April 1983, Page 12.
  4. ^ Dr. Eberhard Heller. "In Erinnerung an Bischof Moises Camora Rivera". In: Einsicht 21 (1991) pag. 89-98.
  5. ^ "Curriculum Vitae del R.P. Moises Carmona Rivera," Einsicht, German ed., (Mar., 1982), p.24
  6. ^ a b 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.
  7. ^ a b "Adsum (October 2016)" (PDF). Mater Dei Seminary. Retrieved 16 February 2021.