Nationality Italian Name Luigi Mascolo | ||
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Consecration 1964by Antidio Jose Vargas Denomination Independent Catholicism, former Roman Catholic | ||
Luigi mascolo
Luigi Mascolo was an Italian former Roman Catholic priest who converted to and became a bishop of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church (ICAB), an independent Catholic Church in Brazil.
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Mascolo was born in Irsina, Italy at an unknown date. He was an ordained as priest of the Diocese of Matera-Irsina and was sent to Brazil as a missionary. The current leader, Mgr Dante Luis Bergonzi of the Argentine Catholic Apostolic Church (ICAA), states that Mascolo's mission in Brazil was to undermine the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church, or ICAB. He converted to ICAB and was consecrated as an ICAB bishop in 1964 by Antidio Jose Vargas. He was ICAB's bishop in Rio de Janeiro, and consecrated the first bishop and Patriarch of the Argentine Catholic Apostolic Church, Leonardo Morizio Dominguez, in 1972. It is unknown if his actions against the Catholic Church resulted in excommunication by the Vatican.