Bernard Tissier de Mallerais

Bernard Tissier de Mallerais, SSPX (born 1945) is a bishop of the Society of St. Pius X. He was excommunicated in 1988 by the Vatican which considers his episcopal consecration by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre to be "illicit" and "a schismatic act". [ [http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/motu_proprio/documents/hf_jp-ii_motu-proprio_02071988_ecclesia-dei_en.html Apostolic Letter 'Ecclesia Dei'] ] . Mallerais himself however rejects this and claims he is in fact still a member of the Roman Catholic Church although some of his teachings still disagree with those of the same Church.

Early life and ministry

Tissier de Mallerais was born in Sallanche, Haute-Savoie, France. After obtaining a university degree in biology, he entered The International Seminary of Saint Pius X at Fribourg in October 1969. On June 29, 1975 he was ordained priest by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre at Ecône. He served first as a professor, then as vice-rector, and finally as rector of the seminary at Ecône. Then he was appointed Secretary General of the SSPX.

Consecration and Excommunication

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Life after 1988

After his episcopal consecration Tissier de Mallerais continued in his position of Secretary General of the SSPX until 1996. In 1991, he consecrated Licínio Rangel as bishop for the Priestly Society of St. John Mary Vianney after the death of its founder, bishop Antônio de Castro Mayer.

In 1996, he was charged with writing a biography of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre; the work was published in 2002.

In that same year, the history professor Luc Perrin claimed that he "went as far as to consider the present Roman Catholic Church is not a Christian Church, casting serious doubts on the validity of the 'conciliar' priesthood, calling it a 'gnostic priesthood' (Homily of June 27, 2002)." [Luc Perrin, professor at the University of Strasbourg 2 - Marc Bloch, where he teaches History of the Church, in a 2 September 2006 interview [http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2006/09/historian-observes-catholic-moment.html A Historian observes the Catholic moment] ]

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