Roberto Garrido Padin (born 1945 in

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) is a

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of the Independent Catholic Church, based at the

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of Santa Barbara in

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, Northern

. Roberto Garrido Padin was born into a

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family. He was ordained

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in 1972 by Bishop

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of the

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, and served as a parish priest and as secretary to the bishop. He was consecrated bishop by

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on 2 May 1989 at

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had been consecrated bishop in 1951 by Bishop

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of the

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of Brazil. Bishop Roberto Garrido Padin currently serves as bishop of the

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of Salvador de Bahia of the Independent Catholic Apostolic Church of Brazil. Garrido Padin reached the attention of the world media in 2002 as having been the Principal Consecrator, in 1998, of the

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bishop

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of the

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, who controversially attempted to "ordain" the group of women known as the

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into the

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priesthood. Jarvis, Edward, ''God Land & Freedom, The True Story of ICAB,'' Apocryphile Press, Berkeley CA, 2018, pp. 166-167

Sources

* http://www.igrejacatolicaindependente.com.br * http://www.independentmovement.us/index.php?title=Historical_Jurisdictions *

External links

*http://igrejacatolicaapostolicaindependente.blogspot.com/ *http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=22839 *http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bferraz.html

References

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