Tomás de Aquino Ferreira da Costa

His Excellency, the Most Reverend
Thomas Aquino Ferreira da Costa
OSB
Prior of Holy Cross Monastery
Orders
Ordination 1980
by Marcel Lefebvre
Consecration 2016
by Richard Williamson
Personal details
Birth name Miguel Ferreira da Costa
Born 1954
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Nationality Brazilian
Denomination Roman Catholic
Residence Holy Cross Monastery, Nova Friburgo, Brazil

Miguel Ferreira da Costa, born 1954 in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil),[1] known as Dom Tomás de Aquino, is the prior of the Holy Cross Monastery in Nova Friburgo (Rio de Janeiro State), a refuge for priests who have left the Society of Saint Pius X.

He entered the Abbey of Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux in Vaucluse, France, in 1974 and took the name Thomas Aquinas. He was ordained a priest in 1980 in Écône by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. In 1987, he and a group of monks from la Barroux left to Brazil to start the Monastery of the Holy Cross in Nova Friburgo.[2]

He is a traditionalist bishop with the "Marcel Lefebvre Priestly Union" (see: SSPX resistance). Bishops Richard Williamson and Jean-Michel Faure consecrated him a bishop,[3][4] 19 March 2016.

References

  1. ↑ respicestellam (2016-03-19). "Deo gratias for a new Bishop". respice stellam. Retrieved 2017-04-11.
  2. ↑ Nougué, Carlos. "Deo gratias for a new Bishop". Respice Stellam. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
  3. ↑ "Mgr Williamson a ordonné un nouvel évêque intégriste". La Croix (in French). 2016-03-30. ISSN 0242-6056. Retrieved 2017-04-10.
  4. ↑ "Mgr Richard Williamson ordonne un nouvel évêque - Catholicisme - La Vie". www.lavie.fr. Retrieved 2017-04-10.


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