Louis Vezelis
Louis Vezelis ( born January 29, 1930 in Rochester, New York) is an Upper sedisvakantistischen community of Franciscans in the United States and bishop in the succession of Pierre Martin Ngo Dinh Thuc.
As a child of Lithuanian immigrants Louis Vezelis occurred in 1949 in the Lithuanian Vicariate of the Franciscans and studied philosophy and theology in the United States and Canada. On 16 June 1956 he was ordained by Cardinal Paul -Émile Léger in Montreal for Roman Catholic priests. From 1957, he worked 18 years in the East Asia Mission. In 1975 he returned to the United States. In 1978 he was dismissed from his order because he had escaped the jurisdiction of his superiors because he did not want to share the reforms of the Second Vatican Council. At times, he worked with the Society of St. Pius X, then distanced himself but by Archbishop Lefebvre for his ordination by Cardinal Achille Liénart, an alleged member of the Freemasons.
On October 4, 1979 Vezelis founded in Rochester altritualistische the Franciscan convent of " Our Lady of the Angels". In 1982, he converted to the sedevacantism. On August 24, 1982, he gained in Buffalo, NY, consecrated bishop by the consecrated by Moises Carmona Bishop George Musey. Both shared the U.S. in two founded by them and by their claim alone lawful diocesan Catholic traditionalists and Old Ritualists. Vezelis was bishop of the United States east of the Mississippi. A number of priests, including Robert McKenna, placed themselves under his jurisdiction. 1983/84 lived the excommunicated by the Vatican Archbishop Pierre Martin Ngo Dinh Thuc († 1984) in Vezelis ' monastery in Rochester.
Louis Vezelis been consecrated two bishops:
- On August 24, 2005 Gilles Butler from his Franciscan community as bishop of the Western United States
- December 12, 2007 the diocesan priest Luis Alberto Madrigal full professor of Mexico.