Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen

Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen ( CMRI - Latin: Congregation of Mary Reginae Immaculatae, Congregation of the Immaculate Virgin - Our Lady Queen ) is a sedisvakantistische Catholic religious order, the promoting the message of Our Lady of Fátima and the veneration of the Virgin Mary according to the teachings of Saint is dedicated to Louis -Marie de Montfort, whom she sees as their spiritual founder. In the past, the Congregation has also served as Fatima Crusaders and Oblates of Mary Immaculate - called Queen of the Universe.

History

Francis Schuckardt

The congregation was in Coeur d' Alene, Idaho, by Francis Schuckardt founded in 1967 with the help of Denis Chicoine. In 1969, the church was founded with the approval of the bishop of the Diocese of Boise, Sylvester Treinen, instead, with Schuckardt conceived the group as a religious community of sisters and brothers.

With the implementation of the reforms of the Second Vatican Council Schuck Hardt and the congregation came to the conclusion that Paul VI. not a valid pope is why they got the sacraments of priests who shared their theological position. In the early 1970s Schuck Hardt was ordained a priest and consecrated bishop also later, both of Bishop Daniel F. Brown, a Bishop of the Old Roman Catholic Church, who apparently converted to Schuck Hardt's version of Catholicism.

In the late 1970s, the CMRI acquired the former Jesuit scholasticate on Mount Saint Michael in Spokane, Washington, which became the center of the community.

In 1984 Schuckardt of Chicoine was publicly accused of drug abuse, immorality, and personal as well as financial and organizational mismanagement, which also made headlines in the secular press. In June 1984, displaced Chicoine, with the support of the majority of the community and the clergy Schuckardt.

Post- Schuckardt era

In autumn 1984 the priests were looking for a bishop who consecrates priests to the Congregation and found him in Bishop George Musey of Galveston, Texas, whose episcopal consecration line can be traced back to Archbishop Pierre Martin Ngo Dinh Thuc. On April 23, 1985 declared three of the four remaining priests " publicly and formally " a " renunciation of their mistakes and put a creed ad cautelam " from before Bishop Musey. Bishop Musey then took before re- ordinations sub conditionem, although he publicly stated that he personally had no doubts about the validity of their previous orders.

In 1986, the CMRI held its first General Chapter and built this formal rules and constitutions. In the same year the rule of Bishop Robert F. McKenna, OP, whose episcopal line also goes back to Archbishop Thuc approved.

In 1989, Father Mark Pivarūnas was elected Superior General of the Congregation. In 1991 he was ordained by Bishop Moises Carmona, from the Weihehlinie by Archbishop Thuc bishop.

He currently serves as Superior General. Before his death, Bishop Schuckardt and his followers in a dispute Pivarūnas trying to oust since Schuckardt had taken office as Superior General of the Congregation never officially resigned. Schuckardt excommunicated Pivarūnas, claiming Pivarūnas have disqualified himself under the old canon law itself.

Today's situation

The Congregation supplied 29 churches and chapels in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. It has a seminary, the Mater Dei Seminary in Omaha, Nebraska, while the sisters have their mother house in Spokane, Washington (Mount Saint Michael's Mission ). The CMRI is in Central and South America and in Europe, with centers in the British Isles, Central Europe and Russia, common.

Connections to Germany

In Germany, the working group Catholic faith works closely with the CMRI. The German priest of the Working Group serve the community by Oswald Baker in Ely, formerly Downham Market, and the measurement centers in Basel and in the Czech Republic. Officially this place are managed as CMRI measuring centers. Moreover, studying the German new priests at the seminary of Pivarūnas. Bishop Pivarūnas has also dedicated the last German new priests.

Superior General

Denis P. Chicoine (1984-1989)
Mark Pivarūnas (1989-1991)
Casimir M. Puskorius (1991-1995)
Mark Pivarūnas (since 1995)