Apostolic Constitutions – Page 12

Catholic bishops in traditional vestments stand amidst ruins of a cathedral in Madagascar, symbolizing the spiritual decay under the conciliar revolution.

TANANARIVENSIS (1958.12.11)

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The Latin text under the name of John XXIII, titled TANANARIVENSIS, announces the erection of two new ecclesiastical provinces in Madagascar (“De Diego Suarez” and “Fianarantsoaënsis”) by partitioning the former province of Tananarive, and raises the apostolic prefecture of Tsiroanomandidy to a diocese; it enumerates suffragan sees, grants metropolitan prerogatives, regulates external insignia, assigns material resources, and delegates implementation to Marcel Lefebvre as Apostolic Delegate.

A Catholic missionary scene in New Guinea with a Capuchin friar and native converts, symbolizing traditional faith and orthodoxy.

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Portus Moresby (Mendiensis) (1958.11.13)

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At first glance, this act of Eugenio Roncalli (John XXIII), dated November 13, 1958, presents itself as a strictly administrative decree: the division of the Apostolic Vicariate of Port Moresby in New Guinea and the erection of a new Apostolic Prefecture of Mendi, entrusted to the Capuchin Friars Minor, with meticulously described territorial boundaries, delegated execution to Romolo Carboni, and the usual juridical clauses of validity. Behind this apparently pious and technical language, however, stands the inaugural program of the conciliar revolution: consolidation of a new power-structure usurping Catholic forms while preparing the demolition of Catholic substance.

A traditional Catholic bishop establishes the diocese of Sanctae Catharinae in Ontario with solemn reverence.

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Constitutio “Sanctae Catharinae in Ontario” (1958.11.09)

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The cited document is an apostolic constitution in Latin, dated 9 November 1958 and issued under the name of John XXIII, which formally erects the diocesan circumscription of “Sanctae Catharinae in Ontario” by detaching territories from the then archdiocese of Toronto and the diocese of Hamilton. It defines borders, designates St. Catharines as diocesan seat, subordinates the new structure as suffragan to Toronto, regulates the cathedral church, seminary, chapter/consultors, temporal goods, transfer of clergy and acts, and entrusts execution to the apostolic delegate.