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His Excellency, the Most Reverend Clarence Kelly | |
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| Superior General of the Society of Saint Pius V | |
| Installed | 1983 |
| Term ended | 2 December 2023 |
| Predecessor | Office established |
| Successor | Bishop James Carroll |
| Other post(s) | Founder of the Congregation of Saint Pius V |
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| Ordination | 14 April 1973 by Marcel Lefebvre |
| Consecration | 19 October 1993 by Alfredo Méndez-Gonzalez |
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| Born | 1941 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Died | 2 December 2023 Round Top, New York, U.S. |
| Denomination | (Catholic) |
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| Religious style | Bishop |
Clarence Kelly SSPV (1941 – 2 December 2023) was an American sedevacantist traditionalist Catholic bishop. He was a co-founder of the Society of Saint Pius V and the founder of the Congregation of Saint Pius V.
Biography
Clarence Kelly was born in 1941, in Brooklyn, New York, U.S. He joined the Air Force in 1959. Clarence Kelly joined a Seminary in Pennsylvania in 1964 and completed his novitiate year in 1966–1967.[1][better source needed]
He attended the Catholic University of America between 1967 and 1969 where he studied philosophy. He began his theology studies in 1969 at Immaculate Conception Seminary in Huntington, New York.[1]
In 1971, Clarence Kelly joined the SSPX Seminary at Econe.[1]
Priesthood
Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX)
On 14 April 1973, in Écône, Switzerland, Kelly was ordained a priest by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre[2] for the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX).
After his ordination, he returned to the United States and undertook some speaking engagements for the John Birch Society.[3]
He eventually became the superior of the SSPX's North-East district of the United States.
Society of Saint Pius V (SSPV)
Lefebvre directed the SSPX's American priests to follow the 1962 liturgical books. Kelly and eight other American priests refused to do this. On 27 April 1983, these nine priests, along with some seminarians who were sympathetic to them, were expelled from the SSPX by Lefebvre for their refusal to use the 1962 Missal and for other reasons, such as their resistance to Lefebvre's order that priests of the SSPX must accept the decrees of nullity handed down by diocesan marriage tribunals, and their disapproval of the SSPX's policy of accepting into the society new members who had been ordained to the priesthood according to the revised sacramental rites of Paul VI.
Almost immediately, these priests, with Kelly as their leader, formed the Society of Saint Pius V[3] (SSPV), which held that it is at least a debatable question whether the popes since 1958 have in fact been legitimate Roman Pontiffs.[3] The Society does not believe that it has the right to decide the question of sedevacantism definitively, but believes that "those who presently are thought to be occupying hierarchical positions in the Catholic Church are acting, for the most part, as though they do not have the Faith, according to all human means of judging".[4] They reject any changes to the Mass (including changes made to the Holy Week Ceremonies by Pope Pius XII in 1951), and adhere to the preconciliar Code of Canon Law.[4] Kelly was replaced by Father Richard Williamson as the superior of the SSPX's North-East district of the United States.[5]
In part due to Kelly's rejection of the validity of sedevacantist bishops consecrated by or in the lineage of Bishop Ngô Đình Thục, some of the original priests of the SSPV, such as Father Daniel Dolan, Father Anthony Cekada, Father Donald Sanborn, and Father Thomas Zapp, broke away from the society.
In 1984, Kelly purchased a former Catskills resort in Round Top, New York, and established St. Joseph's Novitiate. There he also founded the Daughters of Mary, Mother of Our Savior, a congregation of religious sisters.[6]
Lengthy litigation followed the expulsion of Kelly and others from the SSPX over the disposition of property and churches.[7] In 1985, Kelly, Cekada, Dolan, and Sanborn sued Schmidberger, Williamson, Bolduc, and others related to the SSPX for libel.[8]
Episcopacy
On 19 October 1993, in Carlsbad, California, United States, Kelly was consecrated a bishop by Bishop Alfredo Méndez-Gonzalez, the retired Bishop of Arecibo, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico.[2][3][9]
In 1996, Kelly founded the Congregation of Saint Pius V[2] (not to be confused with the Society of Saint Pius V, which he co-founded earlier), a Society of Common Life for priests and coadjutor brothers.
On 28 February 2007, he consecrated Father Joseph Santay, CSPV, as a bishop.[10][better source needed]
On 27 December 2018, Kelly served as the co-consecrator in Santay's episcopal consecration of Father James Carroll, CSPV.[11][better source needed]
Kelly resided at Immaculate Heart Seminary.[12]
Books
- Conspiracy against God and Man[13]
- The Sacred and the Profane
- The Case of Fr. Leonard Feeney
References
- ^ a b c "Rebel Priests". YouTube. 2014-02-27. Retrieved 2022-04-19.
- ^ a b c Congregation of Saint Pius V. "The Most Reverend Clarence Kelly".
- ^ a b c d Cuneo, Michael W., The Smoke of Satan: Conservative and Traditionalist Dissent in Contemporary American Catholicism, JHU Press, 1999, p. 96ISBN 9780801862656
- ^ a b https://stpiusvchapel.org/pdf-site/articles/Statement-of-Principles.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ Ruby, Griff. "The Resurrection of the Roman Catholic Church", Chapter Nine, "The Advance of the Sedevacantists".
- ^ Goldman, Ari L., "A Fight Over an Ex-Nun's Mind and Soul", The New York Times, August 11, 1988
- ^ Fundamentalisms Observed, Volume 1, (Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby, eds.) University of Chicago Press, 1994, p. 133, n. 81ISBN 9780226508788
- ^ "Kelly v. Schmidberger", 12 Media L. Rep. 1297, 1299 (S.D.N.Y. 1985)
- ^ Photographs and documentation of the episcopal consecration of Bishop Clarence Kelly.
- ^ Video of the episcopal consecration of Bishop Joseph Santay.
- ^ Video of the episcopal consecration of Bishop James Carroll, CSPV.
- ^ "The Most Reverend Clarence Kelly". congregationofstpiusv.com. Congregation of St. Pius V. Archived from the original on 5 September 2022. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
- ^ Kelly, Clarence (1997). "Conspiracy against God and Man" (PDF). Seminary Press. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
External links
Quotations related to Clarence Kelly at Wikiquote
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