Carlos Duarte Costa

Carlos Duarte Costa ( born July 21, 1888 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, † March 27, 1967 ) was a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. He was excommunicated and founded the Catholic Apostolic Church of Brazil.

Life

Duarte Costa was born on April 1, 1911 ordained priest ( Rio de Janeiro). On July 4, 1924, he was appointed Bishop of Botucatu and on December 8, 1924 Sebastião Leme da Silveira Cintra, Auxiliary Bishop and Coadjutor Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro, ordained a bishop.

On September 22, 1937, his resignation, to which he had been forced administrative reasons, accepted, and Duarte Costa was appointed Titular Bishop of Maura. The Brazilian government had reached this approach to the Vatican. His opposition to the Brazilian government introduced 1944/45, to Duarte Costa's detention.

Duarte Costa was born on July 6, 1945 by Pope Pius XII. excommunicated. Duarte Costa founded on August 18, 1945, the Catholic Apostolic Church of Brazil. The Catholic Apostolic Church of Brazil declared Duarte Costa in 1979 to the sacred.

Work

Duarte Costa became a critic of the official line of the Roman Catholic Church, among other things, he turned against the dogma of infallibility, celibacy, the use of Latin in the liturgy and the " Klero - fascism." He advocated for the poor and criticized the conciliatory in his view, the Vatican's position against Nazism, Fascism and the regime of Getúlio Vargas.