Salomão Barbosa Ferraz (18 February 1880 – 11 May 1969) was a Brazilian Roman Catholic
priest and
Bishop whose career took him through membership of several
Christian
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denominations from the
Presbyterian Church to the
Roman Catholic Church.
Biography
Ferraz was born in
Jaú,
Brazil on February 18, 1880. Originally a
Presbyterian Minister
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** Minister (Catholic Church)
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, Barbosa Ferraz was ordained an
Anglican
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Priest in 1917. He founded an ecumenical society, the "Order of Saint Andrew", in 1928, and was instrumental in organising a 'Free Catholic Congress' in 1936. At the close of this event he established a "
Free Catholic Church" and was elected as the church's first
Bishop. The
Second World War halted his plans to be consecrated
Bishop by European
Old Catholics, but Salomão Barbosa Ferraz was eventually consecrated
Bishop by
Carlos Duarte Costa following this Bishop's excommunication by the
Vatican in 1945. Barbosa Ferraz was also a member of
Freemasonry
Salomão Barbosa Ferraz in turn consecrated
Manoel Ceia Laranjeira for the
Free Catholic Church of Brazil in 1951, but sought reception into the
Roman Catholic Church, which he achieved under
Pope John XXIII, leaving
Manoel Ceia Laranjeira at the head of the
Free Catholic Church, then renamed the Independent Catholic Apostolic Church in Brazil.
In 1959, Ferraz was received into the
Roman Catholic Church. His reception met with some resistance and confusion in Rome, where it had been assumed that he was widowed or chaste. He was eventually named Titular Bishop of
Eleutherna in 1963 and took part in the
Second Vatican Council. Bishop Ferraz died in 1969, leaving a wife and seven children.
Ferraz was a rare example of a legally accepted married bishop in the modern Roman Catholic history.
[FERRAZ, Hermes. ''Dom Salomão Ferraz e o Ecumenismo''. São Paulo, João Scortecci Editora, 1995. pp 78ff]
References
External links
* http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bferraz.html, http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bduco.html
* http://www.tboyle.net/Catholicism/Costa_Consecrations.html
* http://www.igrejacatolicaindependente.com.br
* http://www.igrejacatolicasalomoniana.blogspot.com
* http://www.icai-ts.org.br
* http://www.igrejabrasileira.com.br/
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1880 births
1969 deaths
20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Brazil
Participants in the Second Vatican Council
20th-century Presbyterian ministers
Converts from Presbyterianism
Converts to Roman Catholicism from Catholic Independent denominations
Bishops of the Free Catholic Church
Married Roman Catholic bishops
People from Jaú