List of people excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church

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This list of Excommunications is a list of persons excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church. It includes only excommunications acknowledged or imposed by a decree of the Pope or a bishop in communion with him. Automatic excommunications are not included here if not confirmed by a bishop.

Contents 1 21st century 2 20th century 3 19th century 4 18th century 5 16th century 6 14th century 7 13th century 8 11th century 9 5th century 10 4th century 11 3rd century 12 2nd century 13 1st century 14 See also 15 Notes

[edit] 21st century

• Eduardo Aguirre, Guatemalan Catholic priest, now bishop of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church^[1]
• Call to Action group members in Nebraska were excommunicated by Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz, Vatican later confirmed their excommunication.^[2]
• Emmanual Milingo, former archbishop of Lusaka, for consecrating four bishops without the papal mandate. Also excommunicated were those receiving consecration.^[3]
• The Community of the Lady of All Nations for heretical teachings and beliefs after a six-year investigation. The declaration was announced by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops on September 12, 2007.^{[citation needed]}
• Rev. Dale Fushek and Rev. Mark Dippre. Former Priests were issued a Decree of Excommunication by Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted for operating "an opposing ecclesial community" in direct disobedience to orders to refrain from public ministry.^[4]
• Father Marek Bozek (since laicized by Pope Benedict XVI), and the lay parish board members of St. Stanislaus Kostka Church in St. Louis, Missouri in December 2005 were declared guilty of the ecclesiastical crime of schism by then-Archbishop Raymond Leo Burke.^[5] Their excommunication was ratified by the Vatican in May 2008. (Four of the parish board members have since reconciled with the Church.)
• Mother of a nine-year old Brazilian rape victim, for obtaining an abortion for her daughter. Also the doctors performing the abortion. ^[6]

[edit] 20th century

• Bishops in China who joined the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association and ordained bishops without papal approval.
• John XXIII excommunicated Fidel Castro in 1962
• Pius XII excommunicated all Catholic supporters of Communism (see Decree against Communism and Fidel Castro)
• Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, Bishop Antonio de Castro Meyer, Bernard Fellay, Bernard Tissier de Mallerais, Richard Williamson and Alfonso de Galarreta for the Ecône Consecrations without papal mandate. Formally declared to have incurred latae sententiae excommunication by Cardinal Bernardin Gantin on July 1 1988.^[7][8] The excommunications of the latter four were lifted in 2008.
• Father Romolo Murri, and leader of the Italian Catholic Democrats^[9]
• Juan Perón, in 1955, after he signed a decree ordering the expulsion of Argentine bishops Manuel Tato and Ramón Novoa^[10][11]
• Father William Murphy of Seward, Nebraska, in 1901, for defying a ban on collecting money for the Irish Land League ^[12]
• All Catholics who participated in the creation of an independent church in the Philippines, in 1902^[13]
• Alfred Loisy, a French cleric associated with modernism.

[edit] 19th century

• Napoleon I of France, excommunicated June 10 1809 for ordering the annexation of Rome and a long period of anti-Papal orders. ^[14]
• Stephen Kaminski, PNCC bishop, in 1898^[15]
• Francis Hodur member of PNCC^[16]
• Catholics who denied the Immaculate Conception were excommunicated (see Old Catholic Church)

[edit] 18th century

• All Catholic members of Freemasonry.
• Most important supporters of Jansenism, in the 1718 bull Pastoralis officii^{[citation needed]}

[edit] 16th century

• Martin Luther in 1520 by Pope Leo X
• King Henry VIII of England
• Thomas Cranmer
• Elizabeth I of England in 1570 by the papal bull Regnans in Excelsis
• Thomas Erastus

[edit] 14th century

• Antipopes at Avignon Clement VII and Benedict XIII and their followers by proxy^{[clarification needed]}

[edit] 13th century

• King John of England by Pope Innocent III
• Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

[edit] 11th century

• Michael Cerularius, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, in 1054.

The legal validity of this excommunication has been questioned as it was delivered by legates of Pope Leo IX after the Pope's death. It was declared lifted on December 7, 1965.^[17]

• Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Gregory VII
• Samuel Aba, King of Hungary

[edit] 5th century

• Nestorius, proponent of Nestorianism
• Eutyches, proponent of Monophysitism
• Dioscorus I of Alexandria, who presided over the robber council of Ephesus

[edit] 4th century

• Arius, founder of Arianism

[edit] 3rd century

• Sabellius, originator of Sabellianism
• Novatian, an early antipope who taught Novatianism
• Paul of Samosata
• Marcellus of Ancyra

[edit] 2nd century

• Valentinus, proponent of Gnosticism
• Marcion of Sinope, originator of Marcionism
• Montanus, originator of Montanism

[edit] 1st century

• Simon Magus, early proponent of Gnosticism
• Hymenaeus and Alexander, excommunicated by Paul in the Acts of the Apostles. ^[18]

[edit] See also

• List of excommunicated cardinals

[edit] Notes