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Carlos Duarte Costa was ordained a Brazilian bishop in 1924 was the most outspoken in defending the poor. In 1937, at the insistence of the dictatorial Getúlio Vargas régime in Brazil, the Vatican forced Msgr. Costa to retire as Bishop of Botucatu. Nonetheless, he continued in speaking out on behalf of the poor and, in 1944, was even imprisoned for several months. Finally, in 1945, after protesting the Vatican's having assisted several Nazis find refuge in Brazil at the end of World War II, Msgr. Costa broke with Rome and established his own independent church.
Over the next fifteen years, Msgr Costa, along with the first two bishops he consecrated for his new church, Bishop Salameo Ferraz and Bishop Luis Fernando Castillo-Méndez, helped form in Latin America several other "National Apostolic Catholic Churches.
Salameo Ferraz was born in Sao Paolo Brazil in the latter part of the nineteenth century. He was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1935. On August 15, 1945 he left the Roman Catholic Church and was incardinated into the Catholic Apostolic Church of Brazil.
He was immediately consecrated coadjutor bishop by, Bishop Carlos Duarte Costa. In 1958, Bishop Ferris, a married Catholic Apostolic bishop returned to the Roman Catholic church under Pope Pius XII.
He was never reconsecrated a bishop by the Roman Catholic Church, not even conditionally (sub conditione). By receiving Bishop Ferraz in this manner, the Roman Catholic Church thereby affirmed both de jure and de facto that the consecration he received within the Catholic Apostolic church of Brazil was valid.
He was an active speaker at all four sessions of the Vatican Council II , and was named titular bishop of Eleuterna in Crete by Pope John XXIII on May 12, 1963. It was in this capacity that he died in 1969. Pope Paul VI appointed him to serve on a working Commission during Vatican Council II, where he addressed the Council Fathers on several occasions. Upon his death, Bishop Ferraz was buried with the full honors accorded a Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.
Luis Fernanco Castillo Mendez was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1944, and was consecrated a bishop by Msgr Costa in 1948. It was Bishop Mendez who consecrated Arch Bishop Randy Adler November 5th, 1997 who is the patriarch of the International Communion of the Charismatic Episcopal Church. |
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