Luigi Mascolo (born January 7, 1927), was an Italian former
Catholic priest who converted to and became a bishop of the
Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church (ICAB), an
independent Catholic Church in
Brazil.
Biography
Mascolo was born in
Irsina, Italy, in January 1927. After narrowly escaping deportation to a Nazi forced labor camp during
World War II, he studied in Rome and was later ordained a priest of the
Diocese of Matera-Irsina in 1957, before being sent to Brazil as a ''
Fidei Donum
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'' missionary. Struggling to find his niche in Brazil, he converted to the
Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church and was consecrated as an bishop in 1964 by Antidio Jose Vargas, becoming 's bishop in
Rio de Janeiro and later national leader of ICAB during the 1970s (among other acts he consecrated the first bishop and Patriarch of the
Argentine Catholic Apostolic Church,
Leonardo Morizio Dominguez
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People
Notable people with the name include:
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, in 1972).
[ Jarvis, Edward. ''God, Land & Freedom: The True Story of ICAB,'' Apocryphile Press, Berkeley CA, 2018, pp 139-144, 159-160] According to
Roman Catholic Canon Law his actions against the Catholic Church resulted in automatic
excommunication by the
Vatican.
References
External links
Website of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church
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Bishops of Independent Catholic denominations
Year of death missing
People from the Province of Matera
People excommunicated by the Catholic Church
Italian Roman Catholic missionaries
Roman Catholic missionaries in Brazil
1927 births
Italian emigrants to Brazil