Belorado’s exmonjas change bishop for the third time

They say that it is “temporary,” only a couple of weeks, but the truth is that the ex -religious of Belorado have entrusted to a new bishop, the third in the nine months since the schism began. This is the Valencian Rafael Cloquell, again a sedevacantist bishop, previously related to Ricardo Suberón (the excommunicated that consecrated Pablo Rojas) and with the Brazilian Rodrigo Henrique Ribeiro Da Silva, whom he will temporarily replace, since he has had to leave Again to Brazil, “for personal issues.”

In practice, Ribeiro Da Silva has had to return to his country by expiring the tourist visa with which he entered Spain, which has a maximum validity of 180 days. His arrival in Belorado occurred in early August, six months ago, so he has already had to leave Spain and re -enter, at least, on one occasion. According to its social networks, Rodrigo Da Silva has scheduled in the next dates a “pastoral visit” to localities of northeast Brazil such as Campina Grande, João Pessoa, Fortaleza and Recife, which will end on March 2. These are trips that take advantage of donations for its sedevacantist organization, the weekly São José.

For Spain, the ‘businesses’ of the Brazilian sedevacantist do not seem very buoyant. On the one hand, your campaign ‘crowdfunding’ To install its seminar it seems totally failing, because in three months it has barely managed to raise 127 euros of the 194,000 that you need to buy a property in Burgos (near Belorado) that has a Romanesque chapel. In addition, the sale of a 1957 Breviary for 1,000 euros that began its only seminarian, which is also housed in the Belorado monastery, where it claims to be developing its formation, although it must also return to Brazil to renew its visa of tourist.

Now, according to a press release from the ex -religious, Rafael Cloquell will replace “temporarily” to Da Silva and will be in charge “of administering the sacraments” for the ex -marbles of Belorado. Cloquell entered the Valencia Seminar shortly after the liturgical reform, but never ended the studies by not agreeing with the changes promoted after the Second Vatican Council. “They wanted me to deform,” he says, so he left the seminar and went to Switzerland, where his parents had emigrated. It was there that, he says, “I had the joy of meeting Monsignor Lefebvre, I think it was the only lottery that touched me in life.”

“Everything I am like a priest owes them to them,” he says, although he acknowledges that he did not agree on “the question of the Pope.” “The Pope cannot be potato and heretics at the same time,” explains Cloquell, who does not recognize Francisco’s authority and criticizes some of his latest decisions, such as the blessing of homosexual couples and the presence of Pachamama in some celebrations in the Vatican .

That difference over the Pope led him to uncheck from the Lefebvrianos and was linked to a small French sedevacantist community, where he was ordained a priest. He returned to Spain for a while and then went to Frederstadt (Germany), where he has lived most of his life. This summer, when Da Silva arrived from Brazil, he showed him with him in a meeting in the center of Madrid and even visited Belorado.

Illicit consecration

Rafael Cloquell was illicitly consecrated as a bishop in 1996 in Karlsruhe (Germany) by the Slovak Oliver Oravec, a Catholic priest who entered the clandestine seminar of his country during the communist stage and was ordered in 1968. However, in 1983 he broke with The Catholic Church and was linked to the San Pío X Priestly Fraternity of Lefebvre. In that illegal episcopal consecration of Cquelll also participated by the American John E. HESSON, who had previously been consecrated bishop also for ORAVEC.

“I thought that ancient mass and tradition had been lost forever, until I met Monsignor Lefebvre,” he explains in a video that the nuns have facilitated. However, although the defense of the Eucharist according to the Missal of San Pio V has been one of the keys to his religious life, in the images provided by the former religious appears celebrating a campaign mass in an impromptu chapel installed in the Hotel premises that the ex -religious have rented in Arriondas (Asturias). “It is confirmed that Monsignor Cloquell has already held the first Mass in a small chapel that has been installed in the Closing Restaurant of the Nuns,” explain in the press release the ex -religious, in what seems like a little suitable place for a celebration for a celebration Eucharistic according to traditionalism.

As ABC has been able to know, Cloquell will be commissioned, in a itinerant, the attention of the three venues in which the ex -religious have distributed their community. Three of them – previously known as Sor Alma, Sor Myryam and Sor Sion – have moved to Asturias, while two of them are in Orduña and three others, among which is the exabadesa, remain in Belorado. A complex way of living the community life of the closing nuns.