RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Marcel Lefebvre

1905 - 1991

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Marcel François Marie Joseph Lefebvre (29 November 1905 – 25 March 1991) was a French Catholic archbishop who greatly influenced modern traditionalist Catholicism. In 1970, five years after the close of the Second Vatican Council, he founded the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), a community to train seminarians in the traditional manner, in the village of Écône, Switzerland. In 1988, Pope John Paul II declared that Archbishop Lefebvre had "incurred the grave penalty of excommunication envisaged by ecclesiastical law" for consecrating four bishops against the pope's express prohibition but, according to Lefebvre, in reliance on an "agreement given by the Holy See ... Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marcel Lefebvre has received more than 812,920 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Marcel Lefebvre is the 588th most popular religious figure (down from 580th in 2019), the 652nd most popular biography from France (up from 660th in 2019) and the 36th most popular French Religious Figure.

Marcel Lefebvre was a French archbishop who was suspended by Pope Paul VI in 1976. He was the founder of the Society of St. Pius X, a traditionalist Catholic group.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Marcel Lefebvre ranks 588 out of 3,187. Before him are Muadh ibn Jabal, Camillus de Lellis, Anna the Prophetess, Edward the Confessor, Umm Kulthum bint Ali, and Ansgar. After him are Joseph of Cupertino, Ibn Hisham, Nachman of Breslov, Pope Marcellinus, Columbanus, and Joan Enric Vives Sicília.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Marcel Lefebvre ranks 20. Before him are Mikhail Sholokhov, Astrid of Sweden, Vasily Grossman, Maria von Trapp, Felix Bloch, and Arthur Koestler. After him are Raymond Aron, Guillermo Stábile, Artem Mikoyan, Emilio Segrè, Gerard Kuiper, and Władysław Gomułka. Among people deceased in 1991, Marcel Lefebvre ranks 21. Before him are Gustáv Husák, Soichiro Honda, Graham Greene, Lazar Kaganovich, Frank Capra, and Michael Landon. After him are Rajiv Gandhi, Oona O'Neill, Arno Breker, Margot Fonteyn, Henri Lefebvre, and David Lean.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marcel Lefebvre ranks 652 out of 6,770. Before him are Maurice Chevalier (1888), Hugh the Great (898), Ferdinand Cheval (1836), Ansgar (801), Georges Perec (1936), and Ausonius (310). After him are Pérotin (1160), Marin Marais (1656), Simone Veil (1927), Paul Mauriat (1925), Marie Tussaud (1761), and Frédéric Bastiat (1801).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In France

Among religious figures born in France, Marcel Lefebvre ranks 36. Before him are Suger (1080), Peter the Hermit (1050), Luigi Lucheni (1873), Antipope Clement VII (1342), Hugues de Payens (1074), and Ansgar (801). After him are Pope Stephen IX (1020), Jean Meslier (1664), Peter Waldo (1140), Catherine Labouré (1806), Jean-Baptiste de La Salle (1651), and Clotilde (475).

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