Moisés Carmona Rivera (31 October 1912 – 1 November 1991) was a

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, who propagated sedevacantism in Mexico and was excommunicated from the

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. He was illicitly consecrated a bishop by the Vietnamese sedevacantist bishop

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.''Einsicht'' (May 1983)
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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. Carmona became a seminary professor."Curriculum Vitae del R.P. Moises Carmona Rivera," Einsicht, German ed., (Mar., 1982), p.24

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 illicitly consecrated them bishops in Toulon on 17 October 1981, which led to his excommunication. Carmona went on to illicitly consecrate four more purported bishops: Mexicans Benigno Bravo and Roberto Martinez y Gutiérrez, and Americans George Musey and Mark Pivarunas.

Death, burials, and aftermath

Bishop Carmona died on 1 November 1991, aged 79, from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. In 1996, Carmona's body was exhumed and transferred by Martín Dávila Gandara of the SST to a crypt in a lower chapel below the Divine Providence Church. Gandara 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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