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Palmarian Catholic Church

1910 New Catholic Dictionary

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Schismatic sect with its own anti-pope. Established in 1975 by Clemente Domínguez y Gómez, an insurance broker from Seville, Spain, who claimed the Virgin Mary appeared to him at a shrine outside the small village of El Palmar de Troya in Andalucia. In 1978 he announced that he had been crowned Pope by Jesus Christ in a vision, and established his own Holy See in Seville, taking the name Gregory XVII and naming cardinals. Domínguez later declared the Catholic Church a false church, and "excommunicated" Pope John Paul II; he canonized Francisco Franco and Christopher Columbus. Upon Domínguez' death in March 2005, Manuel Alonso Corral succeeded him, taking the name Peter II.

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Entry for 'Palmarian Catholic Church'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ncd/​p/palmarian-catholic-church.html. 1910.
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