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{{Short description|French Catholic bishop (1945–2024)}}
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| honorific-prefix = [[His Excellency]], [[The Most Reverend]]
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| name = Bernard Tissier de Mallerais
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| ordination = 29 June 1975
| ordained_by = [[Marcel Lefebvre]]
| consecration = 30 June 1988
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| birth_place = [[Sallanches]], [[Provisional Government of the French Republic|France]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2024|10|08|1945|09|14|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Martigny]], Switzerland
| buried = [[International Seminary of Saint Pius X]], [[Écône]], [[Valais]], Switzerland
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* Rector of the International Seminary of Saint Pius X (1979{{snd}}1983)
* Chaplain of the Novitiate of the [[Sisters of the Society of Saint Pius X]]
* Secretary General of the Society of Saint Pius X (1984{{snd}}1996)
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| ordained priest by = Marcel Lefebvre
| date of priestly ordination = 29 June 1975
| place of priestly ordination = The International Seminary of Saint Pius X, [[Écône]]
| consecrated by = Marcel Lefebvre
| co-consecrators = [[Antônio de Castro Mayer]]
| date of consecration = 30 June 1988
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| bishop 1 = [[Licínio Rangel]]
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'''Bernard Tissier de Mallerais''' {{post-nominals|post-noms=[[Society of Saint Pius X|FSSPX]]}} ({{IPA|fr|bɛʁnaʁ tisje də maləʁɛ}}; 14 September 1945 – 8 October 2024) was a French traditionalist [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] prelate who served as a bishop of the [[Society of Saint Pius X]] from 1988 until his death in 2024.

== Early life and ministry ==
Tissier de Mallerais was born in [[Sallanches]], [[Haute-Savoie]], France, on 14 September 1945. After obtaining a master's degree in [[biology]], he entered the [[International Seminary of Saint Pius X]] at [[Fribourg]] in October 1969. On 29 June 1975, he was [[Ordination|ordained]] priest by [[Archbishop]] [[Marcel Lefebvre]] at [[Écône]]. He served first as a professor, then as vice-rector, and finally as rector of the seminary at Écône. In 1979, he was appointed Rector of the Seminary where he remained until 1983. For a year, he served as Chaplain at the Novitiate of the [[Sisters of the Society of Saint Pius X|Sisters of the Society of St Pius X]] (SSPX), until in 1984, he was elected to the post of Secretary General of the Society which he held until 1996.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tower of Trent Tribute |url=http://www.dailycatholic.org/aug9ttt.htm |access-date=30 June 2023 |website=www.dailycatholic.org}}</ref>

==Consecration and aftermath==
{{Main|Écône consecrations}}
In June 1988, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who sensed that he was approaching the hour of his death, consecrated de Mallerais and three other priests ([[Bernard Fellay]], [[Richard Williamson (bishop)|Richard Williamson]], and [[Alfonso de Galarreta]]) as [[Bishop in the Catholic Church|bishops]]. Lefebvre did not have a pontifical mandate for these consecrations, which was promised in exhausting negotiations, but always postponed or subjected to destabilizing conditions.<ref name="La Croix">{{Cite news |last=Lasserre |first=Matthieu |date=9 October 2024 |title=Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais, senior prelate of the Society of Saint Pius X, dead at 79 |url=https://international.la-croix.com/religion/bishop-bernard-tissier-de-mallerais-senior-prelate-of-the-society-of-saint-pius-x-dead-at-79 |access-date=9 October 2024 |work=La Croix}}</ref> On 1 July 1988 Cardinal Gantin issued a declaration stating that Lefebvre, bishop [[Antônio de Castro Mayer]], de Mallerais, and the three other newly ordained bishops "have incurred ''[[ipso facto]]'' the [[excommunication]] ''[[latae sententiae]]'' reserved to the [[Apostolic See]]."<ref name="La Croix" />

The validity of the excommunications is disputed by the SSPX. It argues that the consecrations were necessary due to a moral and theological crisis in the Catholic Church.<ref>[http://www.sspx.org/SSPX_FAQs/q11_abexcommunicated.htm SSPX FAQ Question 11] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110412031202/http://www.sspx.org/SSPX_FAQs/q11_abexcommunicated.htm |date=12 April 2011 }} (29 June 1987). SSPX.org. Retrieved 18 May 2017.</ref><ref>[http://www.sspx.org/1988%20Consecration%20articles/1988_consecrations_theological_I.htm The 1988 consecrations: a theological study] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807125504/http://www.sspx.org/1988%20Consecration%20articles/1988_consecrations_theological_I.htm |date=7 August 2011 }} (July & September 1999). ''Sì sì no no'' via SSPX.org. Retrieved 18 May 2017.</ref><ref>[http://www.sspx.org/1988%20Consecration%20articles/1988_consecrations_canonical_I.htm The 1988 consecrations: a canonical study] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807125532/http://www.sspx.org/1988%20Consecration%20articles/1988_consecrations_canonical_I.htm |date=7 August 2011 }} (November 1999). ''Sì sì no no'' via SSPX.org. Retrieved 18 May 2017.</ref> Bishop de Mallerais argues of the validity and necessity of these consecrations in his article "Supplied Jurisdiction & Traditional Priests," stating: "in an exceptional situation the Church supplies for this absence of jurisdiction on the part of the priest or even the bishop," and "it is the case of necessity amongst the faithful which is responsible for the fact that traditional priests and bishops have a supplied jurisdiction with respect to your needs."<ref>[https://fsspx.org/en/supplied-jurisdiction-traditional-priests Supplied Jurisdiction & Traditional Priests]</ref>

By a decree of 21 January 2009 (Protocol Number 126/2009), issued in response to a request which Bishop Fellay made on behalf of all four bishops whom Lefebvre had consecrated on 30 June 1988, the Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, Cardinal [[Giovanni Battista Re]], by the power expressly granted to him by Pope Benedict XVI, remitted the alleged automatic excommunication which they had thereby incurred, and expressed the wish that this would be followed speedily by full communion of the whole of the Society of Saint Pius X with the Church, thus bearing witness, by the proof of visible unity, to true loyalty and true recognition of the Pope's Magisterium and authority.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://212.77.1.245/news_services/bulletin/news/23250.php?index=23250&po_date=24.01.2009&lang=ge |title=Remissione Della Scomunica Latae Sententiae Ai Vescovi Della Fratertinà Sacerdotale San Pio X, 24.01.2009 |access-date=24 January 2009 |archive-date=1 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090201052418/http://212.77.1.245/news_services/bulletin/news/23250.php?index=23250&po_date=24 January 2009&lang=ge |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==SSPX bishop==
In 1991, Tissier de Mallerais consecrated [[Licínio Rangel]] as bishop for the [[Personal Apostolic Administration of Saint John Mary Vianney|Priestly Society of St John Mary Vianney]] after the death of its founder, bishop Antônio de Castro Mayer. The duties of Tissier de Mallerais in the SSPX included the administration of the sacraments, particularly the sacrament of confirmation. He travelled extensively throughout the world, visiting SSPX chapels and communities.<ref name="SSPX">{{Cite web |date=8 October 2024 |title=The Death of Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais |url=https://sspx.org/en/news/death-bishop-bernard-tissier-mallerais-47993 |access-date=9 October 2024 |website=District of the USA SSPX}}</ref>

[[File:Monseñor Bernard Tissier diciendo misa en Madrid en 2023.jpg|thumb|center|upright=1.5|Bishop Bernard Tissier saying mass in Madrid in 2023.]]

==Death==
On 28 September 2024, Tissier de Mallerais suffered a skull fracture and internal haemorrhage due to a trip and fall on stairs in the seminary in Écône. He was temporarily placed into an induced coma.<ref>{{Cite web |publisher=SSPX |title=Prayer intention We ask for prayers for H.E. Bishop Tissier de Mallerais. |url=https://fsspx.news/en/news/prayer-intention-47828|date=30 September 2024}}</ref> Tissier de Mallerais died on 8 October 2024, at the age of 79.<ref name="SSPX" />

His funeral was officiated on 18 October 2024 by Bishop [[Alfonso de Galarreta]], after which he was buried in the crypt of the International Seminary of Saint Pius X at Écône, where Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and Bishop [[Vitus Huonder]] also rest.<ref>{{Cite news |date=18 October 2024 |title=Funérailles de Mgr Bernard Tissier de Mallerais - Vidéo |url=https://fsspx.ch/fr/news/funerailles-mgr-bernard-tissier-mallerais-video-48108 |work=[[Society of Saint Pius X]]}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
=== Author ===
* {{cite book|title=Marcel Lefebvre: The Biography|date=2002|publisher=Clovis|isbn=1892331241}}
* ''Faith Imperiled by Reason: Benedict XVI's Hermeneutics''<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bourbon |first1=Jérôme |title=Mgr Tissier de Mallerais : « La foi passe avant la légalité » |url=https://laportelatine.org/actualite/mgr-tissier-de-mallerais-la-foi-passe-avant-la-legalite-13-juin-2012 |access-date=11 October 2024 |work=[[Rivarol (magazine)|Rivarol]] |date=13 June 2012}}</ref>
* {{cite book|title=The Rest of the Story: A Summary of the Life and Times of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre|date=2021|publisher=Angelus Press|isbn=978-1949124774}}

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