BREAKING: SSPX episcopal consecrations announced
BREAKING: SSPX episcopal consecrations announced
The SSPX has announced that they will be consecrating bishops 1 July 2026, apparently without pontifical mandate, following Archbishop Lefebvre’s ‘Operation Survival’ in 1988 and another in 1991.
Following the death of Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais in 2024 (and also Bishop Richard Williamson in 2025), the Society of St Pius X (SSPX) has announced that they will be following in his footsteps and consecrating bishops, apparently without the permission of Leo XIV, on 1 July 2026.
This will mark the second time – and not the first, as many think – that the Society of St Pius X’s bishops have conferred episcopal consecration since 1988 (more on this below).
The statement is as follows:
Press release dated 2 February 2026.
On 2 February 2026, the feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin, the Reverend Father Davide Pagliarani, Superior General of the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X, during the ceremony of the taking of the cassock which he presided over at the International …
The SSPX did not leave the Vatican and papal authority, it left the Society with its adherence to VII and its Modernist ideas.