List of people excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church
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This List of Excommunications is a list of persons excommunicated officially by the Roman Catholic Church. This list should include imposed excommunications and canonically declared latae sententiae excommunications. This list should not include those who are merely thought to have automatically excommunicated themselves absent canonical declaration.
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- Marek Bozek and six board members of the former St. Stanislaus Kostka parish in St. Louis were declared to have incurred automatic excommunication for schism by the archbishop of St. Louis, Raymond Leo Burke. Before this, Bozek was canonically suspended for leaving his assigned parish outside of St. Louis without permission in order to head St. Stanislaus.
- Edwin Gonzalez Concepcion of Puerto Rico and his followers were excommunicated for preaching that Concepcion was the reincarnation of Pope John Paul II.
- Genevieve Beney of France was excommunicated for claiming to be an ordained priest, even though she was married and female.
- Gert Petrus of Namibia was excommunicated for practicing witchcraft.
- Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger and six other members of the Danube Seven who were excommunicated for simulating being ordained by a South American bishop who had left the Church to join a sect, as priests. The Danube Seven were declared excommunicated ferendae sententiae for 'grave disobedience' and 'aiding schism'.
- Emmanuel Milingo was excommunicated for marrying a woman selected by Sun Myung Moon in a Moonie ceremony, then attempting to ordain married men as bishops (those claiming ordination were also excommunicated).
- James Callan, Mary Ramerman, and members of the Spiritus Christi sect (many of whom were former members of Corpus Christi Church, Rochester, New York) were declared to have excommunicated themselves for schism by Rochester Bishop Matthew H. Clark in 1999.[1]
- Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, formally declared incurred latae sententiae by Pope John Paul II through Ecclesia Dei for the Ecône Consecrations without papal mandate.
- Oblate Fr. Tissa Balasuriya - revoked less than a year later
- Fidel Castro in 1962 - has since attended mass with Pope John Paul II
- Joe DiMaggio - for bigamy. (Reversed 1962)[1]
- François Duvalier-Withdrawn within four years.[2]
- Fr. Leonard Feeney [3]
- George Jackson Mivart-Excommunicated for suspected Modernism. Four years after his death his friends successfully argued that in his last years he had become insane due to diabetes. This led to his reburial in a Catholic cemetery.[4]
- Sinéad O'Connor - for simulating being ordained by a schismatic church, the Palmarian Catholic Church.
- Manuel Alonso Corral - asked Pope Paul VI to be forgiven and was absolved of all ecclesial penalties in 1976, until 1981 when he was again excommunicated by Pope John Paul II for illicit consecrations.
- Juan Perón - Excommunicated in 1955 after he signed a decree ordering the expulsion of Argentine bishops Manuel Tato and Ramón Novoa[5][6]
- Feliksa Kozłowska (1906)
- Irish republicans involved in "arson, murder or kidnapping" during the Irish War of Independence, in December 1920[7]
- Father William Murphy of Seward, Nebraska for political sympathies with Protestant Ireland (in 1901).[8]
- All Catholics who participated in the creation of an independent church in the Philippines (in 1902).[9]
- Every Christian in South America who took up arms against the Spanish and Portuguese monarchies under Leo XII
- Miguel Hidalgo, chief instigator of Mexico's war of independence against Spain.
- Father Edward McGlynn for supporting the Single Tax movement of Henry George under Leo XIII; effective 4 July 1887; rescinded 1892.
- Fenians - many priests ignored the decree and heard confessions, etc.[citation needed]
- Antonio José Martínez, for disagreeing with Bishop Jean Baptiste Lamy
- Mary MacKillop (Later rescinded)
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, in 1789. (Later rescinded.)
- Miguel de Cervantes. (Later rescinded.)
- Henry of Navarre.
- Henry VIII of England, in 1533.
- Andreas Karlstadt in 1520
- Martin Luther, in 1521.
- Martin Bucer in 1523.
- Elizabeth I of England, in 1570.
- Alfonso d'Este in 1510.
- Charles d'Amboise in 1510
- Every citizen of the Republic of Venice in 1509
- Giovanni II Bentivoglio in 1506
- Pietro Colonna in 1501
- Girolamo Savonarola in 1497
- Jan Hus, in 1411.
- Guidantonio da Montefeltro
- Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta
- William of Ockham, in 1328
- Louis IV, in 1324
- Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, in 1227, rescinded in 1231, but again in 1239.
- Elias of Cortona
- Afonso II of Portugal, in 1212.
- John I of England, in 1209. (Rescinded later.)
- Noblemen who protected the cathars
- Venetians and crusaders who attacked the port of Zara
- Sverre Sigurdsson, King of Norway, in 1194
- Owain Gwynedd, Prince of Gwynedd.
- Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor in 1119
- Antipope Gregory VIII in 1118
- Anselm V, Archbishop of Milan
- Conrad III
- Henry II of England for assassination of Thomas Beckett, made penance afterwards
- Guibert
- Robert Guiscard, later lifted
- Philip I of France, in 1094.
- Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, in 1076.
- Peter Mongus, patriarch of Alexandria
- ^ source: 15 January 1954 San Francisco Chronicle
- ^ http://web.archive.org/web/20050311031408/http://www.worldpolicy.org/globalrights/carib/2004-Haiti.pdf
- ^ http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/doc_dis_index_it.htm
- ^ http://darwin.bc.asu.edu/john/19mivart.html
- ^ http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761571996/Juan_Peron.html
- ^ http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/section/Peron-Ju_EarlyCareerandFirstPresidency.asp
- ^ The O'Donoghues' War of Independence
- ^ A PRIEST EXCOMMUNICATED.; Father Murphy of Seward, Neb., Punished by His Bishop - Trouble Due to His Sympathy with Ireland. Special to The New York Times.. New York Times. New York, N.Y.: Jun 25, 1901. pg. 1, 1 pgs
- ^ POPE ORDERS SHARP ACTION.; Archbishop of Manila Instructed to Excommunicate Philippine National Church Promoters. New York Times. New York, N.Y.: Dec 29, 1902. pg. 7, 1 pgs.