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  • noun A member of the Society of Saint Pius X, an international traditionalist Catholic organisation.

Etymologies

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Lefebvre +‎ -ist, after its founder, the French archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.

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Examples

  • That's why it's profoundly insulting to use the terms Lefebvrist and Lefebvrite.

    Tissier de Mallerais speaks The details of the doctrinal talks 2009

  • A seminarian who was attending it (and was also promoting the Holy Rosary with a small group in the Bombay Seminary) was victimised by the Archbishop (Cardinal Ivan Dias, now at the Curia), called a Lefebvrist, and his ordination was therefore delayed in 2002 by 3 years during which period he was to have been indoctrinated by a modernist Jesuit.

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

  • The point of "Lefebvrist" is to treat the SSPX as a schismaticsect.

    CONFIRMED 2009

  • To call the confraternity "Lefebvrist" and non-catholic reflects one or other of these positions.

    CONFIRMED 2009

  • The Italian news agency ANSA informs see similar dispatch at Corriere dela Sera that a new meeting of the heads of Dicasteries would have been called by Pope Benedict to discuss the current situation of the "Lefebvrist" question, as it happened last April 7.

    Pope Benedict to meet with heads of dicasteries Argent 2006

  • « "Lefebvrist" bishop Williamson of the Society of St Pius X Obama picks the jewish timothy Geithner for secretary of treasure Les juifs qui dominent et détruisent la France [Back by Popular Demand]

    The Civic Platform - A Political Journal of Ideas and Analysis 2009

  • The head of the Swiss-based "Lefebvrist" fraternity, Bernard Fellay, this week distanced the community from Williamson's comments and apologised to Benedict over the remarks, according to a Vatican statement.

    iac world news feed 2009

  • Among them I would include the Lefebvrist godfather of my youngest son.

    On "Gnostic Traditionalism" 2009

  • Thursday at noon will be made public a seven page letter which Benedict XVI sends to the bishops of the Catholic Church to address the case of the revocation of the excommunications of the Lefebvrist bishops and the controversies about the interview denying the gas chambers released by bishop Williamson.

    Tornielli: Letter by the Pope about the Lifting of the SSPX Excommunications 2009

  • Excommunication that, it should be noted, has always only covered the consecrating bishops (Lefebvre and De Castro Mayer, both long gone) and the four consecrated, but never the Lefebvrist priests nor the faithful.

    Rumour Watch: Lifting of Excommunication of SSPX Bishops in the Next Days? [UPDATED] 2009

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