Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church

The Catholic Apostolic Church of Brazil ( Igreja Católica Portuguese Apostólica Brasileira ) is an independent company established in 1945 with a focus on Catholic Church in Brazil.

The Catholic Apostolic Church of Brazil was founded on August 18, 1945 by former Catholic Bishop Carlos Duarte Costa of Botucatu. In the new church several forces came together, who wanted to create a reform-oriented national church for Brazil for a long time. Conflicts with the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church, which led to the split, there were, among other things due to the rejection of the dogma of infallibility and perceived as pro-fascist policy of the Vatican against the regimes in Brazil, Italy and Germany by Duarte Costa.

Duarte Costa ordained own priests and also bishops, including Salomão Barbosa Ferraz. Several clergymen were also sent abroad. The line of succession Mariavite in Felicjanów is not recognized by the Catholic Apostolic Church of Brazil as valid because these women ordained. Therefore, the offices of the Mariavites are not only recognized as invalid, but you go at ICAB assume that they have lost their apostolic succession.

In the sixties it came within the new church disputes. Barbosa Ferraz returned to the Roman Catholic Church. New Patriarch of the Catholic Church was Luis Fernando Castillo Mendez. Since the death of Patriarch Luis Fernando Castillo Mendez end of 2009 Dom Josivaldo is the President of the Igreja Católica Brasileira Apostólica. The church claims to have 40 bishops in 22 dioceses with 500,000 faithful.