The Society of Saint Pius X announced Monday that it plans to consecrate new bishops on July 1, a move that comes after months of talks with Vatican officials.
Fr. Davide Pagliarani, superior general of the SSPX said that the decision came after requesting an audience with Pope Leo XIV in August last year and after receiving “a letter from the Holy See in recent days that in no way responds to our requests.”
The Society of St. Pius X is a priestly fraternity founded by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1970 in response to the reforms of Vatican Council II. Lefebvre was excommunicated by Pope St. John Pual II in 1988 for schism, after consecrating four bishops without a papal mandate, and for many years the SSPX was widely considered a schismatic organization.
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