Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter

The Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (Latin: Fraternitas Sacerdotalis Sancti Petri, FSSP ) is a Catholic society of apostolic life of pontifical right under clerics. It was founded in 1988 as a response to the not approved by the Holy See episcopal ordinations by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. The founding members were priests founded by Lefebvre Society of St. Pius X.., The German district of the Brotherhood is based in Wigratzbad in the district of Lindau ( Bodensee) in the Western Allgäu.

  • 3.1 History

Organization

Generalate Community

  • Superior General: Father John Berg
  • General and Assistant: Patrick Abbé du Faÿ de Choisinet
  • Wizard: Father Charles Van Vliet, Padre Almir ( " Don Almiro " ) de Andrade
  • Councils: Father Josef Bisig ( Superior General from 1988 to 2000 ), Abbé Alban Cras
  • General Secretary: Abbé Armand de Malleray
  • General Treasurer: Father Charles Van Vliet

Districts and regions

  • German- District Superior: Fr Axel Maussen
  • French District Superior: Abbé Vincent Ribeton
  • North American District Superior: Father George Gabet
  • Regional Superior of Belgium and the Netherlands: Abbé Hervé Hygonnet
  • Regional Superior of Australia: Father Laurence Gresser
  • Rector of the Seminary of Saint Peter, Wigratzbad, Europe: Father Franz Karl Banauch
  • Rector of the Seminary of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Denton, America: Father Josef Bisig

Members

According to the company, the community has 397 members, including 236 priests, 11 deacons and 150 seminarians in 116 dioceses in 16 countries on 4 continents. 28 nationalities are represented. The average age is 37 years.

Theology

Similarly, the Fraternity of St. Pius X recognized by the Rome FSSP does not represent a conservative point of view, but in the same expression. Thus, the Second Vatican Council is acknowledged without reservation that accepts renewed in the liturgical reform Roman Rite as revised in 1970 and in the tradition Lefebvre's critique of members of the Brotherhood as a modernist observed currents so weakened that no confrontation with Rome produced. A major concern of the Brotherhood is the celebration of Holy Mass in the extraordinary form of the so-called in Latin according to the Order of the Mass Missale Romanum of 1962.

Spiritual welfare

The priests of the brotherhood since the founding of the Brotherhood in Wigratzbad ( Germany ) and since 1994 in Denton, Nebraska, formed (USA), in Fribourg ( Switzerland ) is the General House of the Brotherhood. The Brotherhood does not include any bishops who ordinations are performed by the Brotherhood affiliated bishops. The Brotherhood has been active mainly in Europe but also in Australia, Benin, Canada, Colombia, Nigeria and the United States. In Germany, it operates except in Wigratzbad also in Augsburg, Bad Wörishofen, Dusseldorf, Gelsenkirchen, Neckarsulm, Cologne, Recklinghausen, Stuttgart, Rosenheim and Türk home. With St. Peter Canisius in Saarlouis, the Brotherhood in 2012 earned her first church in Germany. In Austria there are four branches (Vienna, Innsbruck, Linz and Salzburg), as well as in Switzerland ( Rotkreuz, St. Pelagiberg, Thalwil and Zurich ). In Rome, she was appointed in 2008 as an example for implementing Summorum Pontificum the Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini personal parish.

History

The Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter was founded on July 18, 1988, erected by Pope John Paul II October 18, 1988 pontifical as a clerical society of apostolic life right.

The founders were members of the SSPX who refused to share the illicit consecration of bishops by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. By choosing the name they expressed their special bond with the papacy. Founding members included the Fathers Josef Bisig, Patrick du Fay de Choisinet, Denis Coiffet, Gabriel Baumann, Engelbert Recktenwald and Klaus Gorges well as Walthard room, Martin Lugmayr, Raymund Noll, Bernward Deneke, Dominic Schubert, Alexander Leonhart, Peter Miksch, Thomas Hauth and Dietmar Aust. First Superior General was Josef Bisig 1988-2000. Was succeeded by Arnauld Devillers, the 2006 John Berg followed as Superior General.

In 2000 there was a factional dispute, whereupon the Superior General P. Arnauld Devillers was not elected by the chapter, but was appointed by Rome by Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos, Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy. At the same time it was determined that there should be forbidden any member of the Brotherhood, to celebrate the Holy Mass in the ordinary form, which was a point of contention.

Confraternity

The FSSP takes as SSPX priests only (or seminarians ) as members. Since 2006 it is for lay people who are close to the Fraternity, a Confraternity. Its members have no financial, but spiritual obligations ( daily prayer in the opinion of the SSPX, one-time annual donation of a measuring intention). According to information from the Confraternity has 3487 members (as of January 2011).

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