Moisés Carmona Rivera (31 October 1912 – ?) was a

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from Acapulco,

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, who propagated sedevacantism in Mexico. He was one of the bishops consecrated by the Vietnamese sedevacantist bishop

Ngô Đình Thục Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục () (6 October 1897 – 13 December 1984) was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Huế, Vietnam, and later a sedevacantist bishop who was excommunicated by the Vatican and allegedly reconciled with the Vatican b ...

.''Einsicht'' (May 1983)
Retrieved 16 October 2021.Vatican

In ''L’Osservatore Romano'', English Edition, 18 April 1983, Page 12.

Biography

Priesthood

In November 1939, Carmona was ordained a priest by Bishop Leopoldo Díaz y Escudero of Chilapa (the Diocese of Acapulco was only split from the Diocese of Chilapa in 1958). Carmona became a seminary professor."Curriculum Vitae del R.P. Moises Carmona Rivera," Einsicht, German ed., (Mar., 1982), p.24

Sedevacantism

When the reforms of the

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came to his parish, ''Iglesia Divina Providencia'' (Divine Providence Church), Carmona refused to conform. In the 1970s, he, along with Father Joaquín Sáenz y Arriaga and Father Adolfo Zamora, formed the Tridentine Catholic Union (''Union Católica Trento'').

Episcopacy

In 1981, Carmona and Zamora were brought by the German sedevacantists Doctor Eberhard Heller and Doctor Kurt Hiller to the Vietnamese sedevacantist bishop

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. Thục consecrated them bishops in Toulon on 17 October 1981. Carmona formed consecrated four bishops: the Mexicans Benigno Bravo and Roberto Martinez y Gutiérrez, and the Americans George Musey and

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, CMRI.

Death, burials, and aftermath

In 1996, Carmona's body was exhumed and transferred by Father (later Bishop) Martín Dávila Gandara of the SST to a crypt in a lower chapel below the Divine Providence Church. It is claimed that during the transference, Carmona's body showed no signs of decomposition, and that pictures taken of him when his body was put into the crypt looked the same at the time of his funeral.

References

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