Peter, a congregation that split with the SSPX and is in full communion with the Vatican, also elected a new superior in July. Since 2012, he has been rector of Our Lady Co-Redemptrix Seminary in La Reja, Argentina, the society said.
Those who take the oath promise to uphold church doctrine and declare their opposition to “the error of the modernists who hold that there is nothing divine in sacred tradition,” according to the SSPX website.įather Pagliarani was ordained a priest by Bishop Fellay in 1996 and served in Singapore before being named superior of the society’s in Italy. The swearing of the oath by all “clergy, pastors, confessors, preachers, religious superiors and professors in philosophical-theological seminaries” was a requirement in the Catholic Church from 1910 to 1967.
Father Pagliarani is pictured after his election with his assistants, Bishop Alfonso de la Galarreta, left, and Father Christian Bouchacourt. Pius X during the society’s general chapter in Econe, Switzerland. Father Davide Pagliarani, 47, center, was elected July 11 as the new superior general of the traditionalist Society of St. “After accepting his office, the elected pronounced the profession of faith and took the anti-modernist oath at the seminary church,” the statement said. Pius X elected 47-year-old Father Davide Pagliarani, an Italian member of the society, as its superior general.Īccording to a statement released by the society July 11, Father Pagliarani was chosen to succeed Bishop Bernard Fellay “for a mandate of 12 years” by members of the society’s general chapter, which was meeting at the Seminary of St. VATICAN CITY – The traditionalist Society of St.