Maurice Cantor

Maurice Cantor (born December 1, 1921 in Le Havre , France ; † June 29, 2016 ) was the founder and bishop of the ancient ritualist "Parish without Borders" Église Sainte Marie (alias: Église vieille-catholique romaine or Église apostolique de France ).

Maurice Adolphe Georges Cantor entered the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Wandrille (Normandy) in 1940 , was ordained a priest on May 22, 1948 and was a monk until 1951. He then worked as a pastor and healer in the Archdiocese of Rouen until 1964. Then he left the Roman Catholic Church and founded the "Église Sainte Marie" in Mont-Saint-Aignan near Rouen. Its foundation was supported by supporters of the so-called Tridentine liturgy and traditional piety exercises. On the other hand, with reference to Eastern Church practice, she introduced relief to ecclesiastical discipline, such as the priestly ordination of married men and the communion of remarried divorced people.

With the establishment of the “Église Sainte Marie”, Cantor tried to obtain episcopal ordination . He received her for the first time on May 30, 1964 through Irénée Poncelain d'Eschevannes († 1970), Patriarch of the " Église Gallicane ", with the assistance of the French Mariavite Bishop Jacques Georges Niset, among others . In April and September 1966 two re-ordinations sub conditione followed by bishops of other old Catholic small churches . On July 6, 1970 Cantor finally received a generally recognized ordination as bishop by Mario Cornejo , a former Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in Lima, who in 1970 joined the "Église Sainte Marie".

literature

• Jean-Pierre Chantin (ed.): Les Marges du christianisme: Sectes, dissidences et ésotérisme Beauchesne. Paris 2003, pp. 36-38, ISBN 978-0701014186

Web links

• Homepage of the Église Sainte Marie (partly also in German translation)