Jean Laborie (1919 - 1996) was a French
bishop
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of an
independent Catholic church.
Biography
Jean Laborie was born on 16 November 1919, and by his own account he spent his early life doing menial labouring jobs with no involvement in religion. In his forties he quickly discovered a vocation for religious life outside of the official Roman Catholic Church, and he was consecrated as an independent bishop on 2 October 1966 by
Jean Pierre Danyel
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, a bishop of the
Sainte Église Celtique. Later he was re-consecrated conditionally on 20 August 1968 by
Louis Jean Stanislaus Canivet Louis may refer to:
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. He was re-consecrated conditionally a second time on 8 February 1977 by
Traditionalist Catholic
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Archbishop
Pierre Martin Ngo Dinh Thuc
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[Edward Jarvis, ''Sede Vacante: the life and legacy of Archbishop Thuc,'' Apocryphile Press, Berkeley CA, 2019, pp 102-104]
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1919 births
1996 deaths
Thục line bishops
20th-century French people
French bishops