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pronunciation:
[luhfevr]
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| (1905–91)
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| Leader of a ‘traditionalist’ schismatic group within the Roman Catholic Church, born in Tourcoing, N France. He studied at the French Seminary in Rome and was ordained in 1929. In the 1930s he was a missionary in Gabon, and became Archbishop of Dakar, Senegal (1948–62). In 1970, objecting to the modernized form of the Catholic liturgy, he formed the ‘Priestly Cofraternity of Pius X’, and was suspended in 1976. He defied the suspension, and was excommunicated by Pope John Paul II in 1988, thus producing the first formal schism within the Roman Catholic Church since 1870. |
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