Catholic Mariavite Church
The Catholic Church Mariavite is independent of the Roman Catholic Church, Church in the Republic of Poland.
History
The Minister General of the Order of Mariavites and first bishop of the Old Catholic Church of the Mariavites, Jan Maria Michał Kowalski founded after the schism in 1935 with his faithful 2800 -member Catholic Church Mariavite in Felicjanów where the foundress had acquired a monastery.
Until his arrest and murder he consecrated in Felicjanów Maria Marc Fatôme bishop of the foreign jurisdiction and at least five women as bishops.
Jan Kowalski was selected as unable to work in the Dachau concentration camp and brought into the euthanasia killing center and Hartheim Castle near Linz with 100 other prisoners on May 18, 1942. He was gassed and cremated on the same day. The urn with the ashes were transferred into the 1960s by Paul Norbert Maas after Płock and buried there in the crypt.
But not only in Felicjanów took place after 1935 priestesses - ordinations, what a letter from Bishop to Bishop Rafael Maas from the foreign jurisdiction from April 2, 1957 can be found in:
" As far as the priest of Płock, so they are still in worse situation, because they have little young priest, and the priests they do not save because they have these removed dignity. "
The well-known German -language literature says about this procedure from nothing. In the period 1929 to June 1931 nine women were ordained.
Presence
The Catholic Church Mariavite has 2195 members in 22 communities with 13 predominantly female priests. The church is led by Bishop Maria Beatrycze Szulgowicz.