Icab 39/15/2023 ![]() ![]() According to Peter Anson, Costa was excommunicated "for attacks against the papacy." Later Costa was declared a vitandus-a person to be avoided by Catholics-and those Catholics who became adherents of the ICAB were excommunicated also. Costa's act of schism resulted in his automatic excommunication from the Catholic Church. In June 1945, Costa established the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church (ICAB). In addition, he announced plans to set up his own Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church, in which priests would be permitted to marry (and hold regular jobs in the lay world), and bishops would be elected by popular vote. In May 1945, Costa gave newspaper interviews accusing Brazil's papal nuncio of Nazi-Fascist spying, and accused the Vatican of having aided and abetted Hitler. In 1944, the federal Brazilian government imprisoned him, but later freed him under political pressure from the United States and Great Britain. Costa continued to criticize the government and the Catholic Church, advocating policies that were regarded by the authorities as Communist. In 1940, Cardinal Sebastião da Silveira Cintra, archbishop of Rio de Janeiro, permitted Costa, as titular bishop of Maura, to co-consecrate Bishop Eliseu Maria Coroli. As a result of his outspoken views, Duarte Costa resigned from his office of bishop of Botucatu in 1937 and was appointed to a titular see. He also publicly criticized the dogma of papal infallibility and Catholic doctrines on divorce and clerical celibacy. History Ĭosta was an outspoken critic of the regime of Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas (1930–1945) and of the Vatican's alleged relationship with fascist regimes. The Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church is the mother church of an international communion called the Worldwide Communion of Catholic Apostolic Churches, though there is no evidence of any recent activity. The church's administration is in Brasilia, Brazil. Its current president of the Episcopal Council is Josivaldo Pereira de Oliveira. ![]() It is governed by a president bishop and the Episcopal Council. The Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church is the largest independent Catholic church in Brazil, with 560,781 members as of 2010, and 26 dioceses as of 2021 internationally, it has an additional 6 dioceses and 6 provinces. The Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church ( Portuguese: Igreja Católica Apostólica Brasileira, pronounced ICAB) is an independent Catholic Christian church established in 1945 by excommunicated Brazilian Catholic bishop Carlos Duarte Costa. ![]() Emblem of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church ![]()
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