Apostolic Succession of Roman Catholic Bishops

Traditional Roman Catholic Bishops

"See that you all follow the bishop, even as Jesus Christ does the Father, and the presbytery as you would the apostles; and reverence the deacons, as being the institution of God. Let no man do anything connected with the Church without the bishop. Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude [of the people] also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church. It is not lawful without the bishop either to baptize or to celebrate a love-feast; but whatsoever he shall approve of, that is also pleasing to God, so that everything that is done may be secure and valid. Honour the bishop. It is well to reverence both God and the bishop. He who honours the bishop has been honoured by God; he who does anything without the knowledge of the bishop, does [in reality] serve the devil. Let all things, then, abound to you through grace, for you are worthy."

-Saint Ignatius-

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Most of the priests in the world who offer the traditional Latin Mass derive their orders from Archbishop Pierre Martin Thục or from Archbishop Marcel  Lefebvre.

“The only Mass that pleases God is the Mass of St. Pius V, which is offered by few priests and bishops, among whom I count myself. . .Therefore, in so far as I am a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church, I judge that the Chair of the Roman Catholic Church is vacant; and it behooves me, as bishop, to do all that is needed so that the Roman Catholic Church will endure in its mission for the salvation of souls.” 

-Archbishop Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục-

Archbishop Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục was born on October 6, 1897. He was the founder of Dalat University. At age twelve, Thục entered the minor seminary in An Ninh. He spent eight years there before going on to study philosophy at the major seminary in Huế. He was ordained priest on December 20,1925.. He was selected to study theology in Rome, Italy, and returned to Vietnam in 1927 after having been awarded three doctorates from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome in philosophy, theology, and Canon law. On January 8, 1938, he was appointed to be the Titular Bishop of Saesina and was chosen by Rome to direct the Vicar Apostolic of Vinh Long, Viet Nam. Archbishop Thuc was appointed by Pope Pius XI to be a Bishop. He was consecrated a bishop on May 4, 1938 by Archbishop Antonin-Fernand Drapier; acting as co-consecrators were Bishop Isidore-Marie-Joseph Dumortier and Bishop Dominique Maria Ho Ngoc Cân. He was the third Vietnamese priest raised to the rank of bishop. He founded the Diocese of Vinh-long and was named Archbishop of Hué in 1960. Archbishop Thục had been summoned to Rome for the Second Vatican Council. In 1963, while Archbishop Thuc was in Rome for the Second Vatican Council, his brother, Ngô-dinh-Diem, President of South Vietnam, was overthrown and murdered. After the Council (1962–1965), for political reasons, Archbishop Thục was not allowed to return to Vietnam and thus began his life in exile, initially in Rome. After Vatican II, Archbishop Thuc took the sedevacantist position and ordained priests and consecrated bishops in the traditional rites for the preservation of the traditional Latin Mass and in resistance to the post-Vatican II sect. In February 25, 1982, in Munich's Sankt Michael Church, Archbishop Thục issued a declaration that the Holy See in Rome was vacant. He was the only Archbishop who denounce Novus Ordo "Pope" John Paul II as a false pope. He died on December 13, 1984 in the United States of America. The validity of the Episcopal Consecrations made by Archbishop Thuc cannot be questioned. The facts are the facts. The Ordinations and Consecrations performed in the Traditional Rite by Archbishop Thuc and those whom he Consecrated must be considered valid, because when the Traditional Rite is observed the intention is presumed valid. Some have called into question the validity of the Thuc Line based on the accusation that Archbishop Thuc was not in possession of his mental faculties when he performed some of his Episcopal Consecrations. We reject this false position. There is no evidence that Bishop Thuc did not possess his mental faculties at the time of these Consecrations. I regard the Thuc Line as valid. Thuc Line are the bishops and priests who trace their line back to Archbishop Thuc.

Bishops Consecrated by Archbishop Ngo Dinh Thuc 

Bishop Michel Louis Guerard des Lauriers, O.P. (France) May 7, 1981
Bishop Moisés Carmona (Mexico) October 17, 1981
Bishop Adolfo Zamora (Mexico) October 17, 1981


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 Thuc Line Bishops 

Bishop Mark Pivarunas, CMRI 

Robert Fidelis McKenna, O.P. 

Bishop Louis Vezelis, OFM 

Bishop Giles Butler, OFM 

Bishop Donald Sanborn 

Bishop Günther Storck 

Bishop Andres Morello 

Bishop Oliver Oravec 

Bishop Geert Stuyver 

Bishop Daniel Dolan 

Bishop J. Vida Elmer 

Bishop John Hesson

“Rome has lost the Faith, my dear friends. Rome is in apostasy. These are not words in the air. It is the truth. Rome is in apostasy… They have left the Church… This is sure, sure, sure. The See of Peter and the posts of authority in Rome are being occupied by anti-Christs, the destruction of the Kingdom of Our Lord is being rapidly carried out even in His Mystical Body here below… This is what has brought down upon our hearts persecution by the Rome of the anti-Christs. This Rome, Modernist and Liberal, is carrying on its work on the destruction of the Kingdom of Our Lord…”

-Archbishop Marcel Francois Marie Joseph Lefebvre- 

Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, was born on November 29, 1905. In 1923, Archbishop Lefebvre began studies for the priesthood. On May 25, 1929 he was ordained deacon by Cardinal Basilio Pompilj in the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome. On September  21, 1929 he was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Achille Liénart in Lille. After ordination, he continued his studies in Rome, completing a doctorate in theology in July 1930. He became a member of the Holy Ghost Fathers. His first assignment as a Holy Ghost Father was as a professor at St. John's Seminary in Libreville, Gabon. In 1934 he was made rector of the seminary. He served as superior of a number of missions of the Holy Ghost Fathers in Gabon. He became a rector of the Holy Ghost Fathers seminary in Mortain. On June  12, 1947, Pope Pius XII appointed him Vicar Apostolic of Dakar in Senegal and he received the titular episcopal see of Anthedon. On September 18, 1947 he was consecrated a bishop in Tourcoing by Cardinal Achille Liénart; acting as co-consecrators were Bishop Jean-Baptiste Fauret, C.S.Sp. and Bishop Alfred-Jean-Félix Ancel. On September 22, 1948, Pope Pius XII appointed him Apostolic Delegate to French Africa. On September 14, 1955, the Apostolic Vicariate of Dakar became an archdiocese, and Archbishop Lefebvre thus became the first Metropolitan Archbishop of Dakar. On July 26, 1962, he was elected as the Superior General of the Holy Ghost Fathers. Archbishop Lefebvre was also in the Second Vatican Council. He resisted many things about the post-Vatican II religion, recognizing them to be departures from traditional Catholicism. He recognized the New Mass to be Protestant and opposed to Tradition. He also opposed the heresies of false ecumenism and religious liberty, which were taught at Vatican II. He began seminaries for the formation of priests who would be offering exclusively the traditional Mass, and he ordained them in the traditional rite of ordination. In order to do this, he had to remain independent of the Novus Ordo "Popes", even though he continued to take the position that they were legitimate popes who held the office of the Papacy. In 1970, he founded the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX). He decided (independently of the Vatican II Antipopes) to consecrate bishops in the traditional rite of Episcopal Consecration with Bishop Emeritus Antônio de Castro Mayer of Campos, Brazil, as co-consecrator, so that these bishops could continue to ordain priests for the traditional rites. He died on March 25, 1991 in Switzerland.

Bishops Consecrated by Archbishop Marcel Lefevbre

Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais, SSPX 
Bishop Richard Williamson, SSPX 
Bishop  Alfonso de Galarreta, SSPX
Bishop Bernard Fellay, SSPX 

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Lefevbre Line Bishop

Bishop Jean-Michel Faure (French)