Bernard Fellay
Bernard Fellay ( born April 12, 1958 in Sierre, Switzerland ) is a bishop and Superior General of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X.
Life
From October, 1977 to Bernard Fellay completed his priestly formation at the seminary of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X ( SSPX ) in Ecône. On June 29, 1982, he was the founder of the SSPX, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, ordained a priest. In the same year he was an economist at the General House and held various pastoral tasks. From 1988 he was also an economist for the Swiss district of his Order and led numerous apostolic journeys, including in the countries of the Third World by.
On June 30, 1988 he was ordained with three other priests by the founder of the SSPX, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, Bishop. But because these ordinations were carried out without the consent of the Pope, Pope John Paul II issued a decree which declared the excommunication of Lefebvre and the four bishops ordained.
The SSPX denies the real occurrence of excommunication by appealing to " an existing church emergency", Bishop Bernard Fellay why within the SSPX continue sacraments, especially confirmations and ordinations donate.
Since 1994, Bernard Fellay, who speaks five languages , Superior General of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X and was confirmed by the General Chapter of the Fraternity for a further twelve years in this office in July 2006. Fellay is supported by the Assistant P. Niklaus Pfluger and Alain -Marc Nely P..
During a speech on 28 December, 2012 at the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Academy in New Hamburg ( Ontario) Fellay called "the Jews, the Masons, the modernists " as " the enemies of the Church." Concerning the Jews rejected Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi Fellay back claim.
Lifting of the excommunication
On 24 January 2009, the Vatican announced that the Congregation for Bishops on 21 January 2009 on behalf of Pope Benedict XVI. the excommunication of Bishop Fellay and in 1988 consecrated him with bishops, including Richard Williamson, with effect for the future annulled (ex nunc, Latin for now ) after a corresponding request Fellay and his fellow bishops had been preceded, in which he explains belong to the Catholic Church in union with the Pope and continue their teachings to want to be faithful.
After the withdrawal of the excommunication Fellay donated despite the continued suspension of existing facilities in the Fraternity of St. Pius X, among other ordinations.