Catholic Apostolic Church of Brazil

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Emblem of the Igreja Católica Apostólica Brasileira

The Catholic Apostolic Church of Brazil ( Portuguese Igreja Católica Apostólica Brasileira , ICAB) is an independent Catholic church founded in 1945 with its seat in Brasília .

The Catholic Apostolic Church of Brazil was founded on August 18, 1945 by the former Catholic Bishop of Botucatu Carlos Duarte Costa . In the new church different forces came together who had wanted to create a reform-oriented national church for Brazil for a long time. Conflicts with the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church , which led to the break, existed, among other things, due to the rejection of the infallibility dogma and the policy of the Vatican towards the regimes in Brazil, Italy and Germany by Duarte Costa, which was perceived as pro-fascist .

Duarte Costa ordained his own priests and also bishops, including Salomão Barbosa Ferraz . Several clergy were also sent abroad. The line of succession of the Mariavites in Felicjanów is not recognized as valid by the Catholic Apostolic Church of Brazil, as these women are ordained. Therefore, the offices of the Mariavites are not only recognized as invalid, but ICAB assumes that they have lost their apostolic succession.

In the 1960s there were disputes within the new church. Barbosa Ferraz returned to the Roman Catholic Church. Luis Fernando Castillo Mendez became the new patriarch of the Catholic Church . Dom Josivaldo has been President of the Igreja Católica Apostólica Brasileira since the death of Patriarch Luis Fernando Castillo Mendez at the end of 2009. According to its own information, the church has 40 bishops in 22 dioceses with 500,000 believers. In the 2010 census, 560,781 people said they belonged to this church (0.29% of the 2010 population).

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  1. ↑ Tabela 2103: População residente, por situação do domicílio, sexo, grupos de idade e religious: Religião = Católica Apostólica Brasileira. In: sidra.ibge.gov.br. Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística , accessed on November 5, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese, database query).