Moisés Carmona
Moisés Carmona y Rivera was a traditionalist Catholic bishop from Acapulco, Mexico who was a proponent of sedevacantism, which holds that the papacy is vacant. He was one of the bishops consecrated by Bishop Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục.Biography
Moisés Carmona was born in Quechultenango, Guerrero, Mexico, and was ordained a diocesan priest in 1939.
When the reforms of the Second Vatican Council came to his Mexican parish in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he refused to conform. Influenced by his friend, Fr. Joaquin Saenz Arriaga, Carmona came to embrace Fr. Saenz's ideas, and was excommunicated and removed from his post as pastor of Divine Providence parish by Rafael Bello Ruiz, the bishop of Acapulco, on April 30, 1977. With the support of his 2,000 parishioners and due to Mexican law, Father Carmona was able to keep his parish church despite his excommunication.
Carmona, along with Fathers Joaquin Saenz Arriaga and Adolfo Zamora, formed the Union Catolica Trento.
On October 17, 1981, Fathers Carmona and Zamora were consecrated bishop by the sedevacantist Vietnamese traditionalist Roman Catholic bishop Ngô Đình Thục in Toulon, France.
Bishop Carmona then proceeded to consecrate other bishops for the sedevacantist movement. They were Mexicans Benigno Bravo and Roberto Martinez y Gutiérrez and Americans George Musey and Mark Pivarunas, CMRI.
Carmona died November 1, 1991 from injuries sustained in an automobile accident in Mexico.
