Apostolic Constitutions – Page 5

Archbishop Jean-Jérôme Adam receiving the pallium from Marcel Lefebvre in Libreville, 1958. A solemn moment marking the establishment of the new ecclesiastical province of Libreville amidst traditional Catholic architecture.

Liberopolitana (1958.12.11)

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The Latin text published under the name of John XXIII as the apostolic constitution “Liberopolitana” (11 December 1958) decrees a new ecclesiastical province in French Africa by elevating the see of Libreville (“Liberopolitana”) to metropolitan rank, detaching it from Brazzaville, assigning Mouila as suffragan, and conferring metropolitan status and insignia on Jean-Jérôme Adam, with execution entrusted to Marcel Lefebvre as Apostolic Delegate. The entire document is a cold, bureaucratic re‑zoning act—presented as pastoral solicitude—issued at the very threshold of the conciliar catastrophe by the first usurper of the Roman See, and it already manifests the juridical self‑confidence of a structure that had begun to separate hierarchical engineering from the integral confession of the Catholic faith.

Traditional Catholic priest in missionary setting with scroll labeled 'Portus Moresby 1959', symbolizing preconciliar mission and warning against conciliar revolution

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Portus Moresby (1959.07.16)

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The constitution Portus Moresby, issued by the usurper John XXIII in 1959, is a juridical act that reorganizes territories in Papua by carving out from the then Apostolic Vicariate of Port Moresby a new Apostolic Vicariate (“Insulae Yule”) and a new Apostolic Prefecture (“Daruensis”), redefining boundaries between Port Moresby and Samarai, and entrusting the new circumscriptions to specific missionary congregations, while clothing the whole in traditional curial legal form and threats of canonical penalties for non-compliance.

Archbishop John McCarthy in full liturgical regalia during the elevation of Kaduna to a metropolitan see in 1959.

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Lagosensis (Kadunaënsis) (1959.07.16)

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The document issued by John XXIII, under the title “Constitutio Apostolica Lagosensis (Kadunaënsis),” externally concerns the elevation of Kaduna to a metropolitan see and the erection of a new so‑called ecclesiastical province in Northern Nigeria, detaching certain jurisdictions from Lagos and Onitsha and conferring metropolitan status and insignia on John McCarthy and his successors. It presents itself as an act of pastoral governance, aimed—so it claims—at better administering the “Christian flock” and fostering the growth of the faith in that region.

In reality, this text is an early and chilling specimen of juridical re‑engineering by the man who inaugurated the conciliar revolution, revealing the transition from the integral Catholic order to a colonial, bureaucratic, and eventually apostate framework that prepared the rise of the conciliar sect and its paramasonic structures.

A solemn Catholic ceremony in the Belgian Congo, featuring indigenous clergy in traditional vestments before a wooden church with a map of Africa and marked borders of the Apostolic Vicariate of Goma.

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Bukavuensis (1959.06.30)

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A short Latin decree attributed to John XXIII announces the partition of the Apostolic Vicariate of Bukavu in Belgian Congo to create a new Apostolic Vicariate of Goma, entrusted ostensibly to indigenous clergy, with borders defined by civil and natural markers and with the usual canonical faculties and obligations attached to such a jurisdiction. Behind this dry bureaucratic act, signed in 1959 on the eve of the conciliar revolution, stands a paradigmatic gesture of the emerging neo-church: the instrumentalization of missionary structures and native clergy for a geopolitical, modernist, and ultimately anti-Catholic reconfiguration of authority, preparing the way for the demolition of Christ’s social Kingship and the usurpation of the very notion of apostolic jurisdiction.

A Catholic bishop in traditional vestments stands solemnly before the ruins of Hiroshima, holding a document titled 'Hiroshimaensis,' with the Assumption Church in the background.

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Hiroshimaensis (1959.06.30)

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The Latin text issued under the name of John XXIII, titled “Hiroshimaensis,” declares the elevation of the Apostolic Vicariate of Hiroshima (entrusted to the Jesuits) to the rank of a diocese, assigns it as suffragan to Nagasaki, orders the erection of a cathedral at Hiroshima’s church of the Assumption, the creation of a chapter (or diocesan consultors), the establishment of at least a minor seminary, defines the episcopal mensa from existing vicariate goods and Propaganda Fide subsidies, and entrusts execution to the Apostolic Internuncio in Japan, Maximilian von Fürstenberg. In form, it imitates classical Apostolic Constitutions, appeals to the expansion of the faith among pagans, and cloaks itself with canonical solemnity, censuring any resistance.

A solemn scene depicting the signing of the PortaLegrensis in Brasilia decree by antipope John XXIII, surrounded by Catholic clergy in a traditional setting.

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PortaLegrensis in Brasilia (1959.06.20)

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The constitution “PortaLegrensis in Brasilia (S. Crucis in Brasilia)” of 20 June 1959, issued by antipope John XXIII, decrees the detachment of several territories from the Archdiocese of Porto Alegre in Brazil in order to erect a new diocese named “Sanctae Crucis in Brasilia” (Santa Cruz do Sul). It delineates civil and ecclesiastical borders, designates Santa Cruz do Sul and its parish of St John the Baptist as episcopal see and cathedral, regulates canonical dependence as suffragan to Porto Alegre, orders the erection of a seminary, defines the composition of the episcopal mensa, and prescribes the canonical transfer of archives and clergy in conformity with the 1917 Code of Canon Law.

A solemn Catholic ceremony in 1950s Africa marking the establishment of the Apostolic Vicariate of Usumbura.

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NGOZIENSIS – KITEGAËNSIS (1959.06.11)

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The document issued in 1959 under the name of John XXIII, titled in Latin “Ngoziensis – Kitegaënsis (Usumburaënsis),” decrees, through canonical and territorial provisions, the subtraction of specific regions from the Apostolic Vicariates of Ngozi and Kitega in the then Ruanda-Urundi, in order to erect a new Apostolic Vicariate of Usumbura. It praises the work of the Missionaries of Africa, assigns special emphasis to the selection and promotion of indigenous clergy, grants to the newly created vicariate the usual rights and obligations, and clothes the entire act in solemn legal formulas demanding obedience and threatening penalties for non-compliance.

A Catholic priest in traditional vestments with indigenous people on the shore of the Solomon Islands, symbolizing missionary work.

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Insularum Salomonicarum (1959.06.11)

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The constitution “Insularum Salomonicarum” of 11 June 1959, issued under the name of John XXIII, reorganizes ecclesiastical jurisdictions in the Solomon Islands by detaching specified islands from the Northern and Southern Solomon Islands Apostolic Vicariates to erect a new Apostolic Vicariate of the Western Solomon Islands, entrusted to the Dominicans under the usual dependence on the so‑called Apostolic See. The text clothes a bureaucratic territorial act in pious language about the limitless expansion of Christ’s kingdom, but in reality it showcases the juridical self-assertion of the nascent conciliar regime, instrumentalizing missionary structures as a prelude to the ecclesiological revolution soon to be unleashed.

A traditional Catholic bishop in liturgical vestments stands solemnly before a historic cathedral in Simla, India, holding a scroll representing the 1959 ecclesial decree.

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DELHIENSIS ET SIMLENSIS (1959.06.04)

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In this Latin act, Angelo Roncalli as “Ioannes XXIII” reorganizes ecclesiastical territories in northern India: he carves out specified districts from the then-archdiocese of Delhi and Simla, erects a new diocese of Simla (Simla–Ambala), assigns it as suffragan to Delhi, designates the cathedral, defines episcopal revenues, orders a seminary and chapter (or diocesan consultors), prescribes canonical governance norms, and entrusts execution to the “Apostolic Internuncio” and the “Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith”, declaring all contrary provisions null.

A traditional Catholic bishop in liturgical vestments holding a Latin decree, standing in front of a historic Mexican church with stained-glass windows depicting the Sacred Heart of Jesus and scenes from the lives of the saints.

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VERAE CRUCIS — TEHUANTEPECENSIS (1959.05.23)

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The Latin text attributed to John XXIII announces, in bureaucratic curial style, the erection of a new territorial structure in Mexico: by detaching municipalities from the Archdiocese of Veracruz and the Diocese of Tehuantepec, it fabricates the Diocese of “San Andrés Tuxtla,” assigns its boundaries, subjects it as suffragan to Veracruz, prescribes a seminary, cathedral chapter, and canonical administration, and wraps the whole in standard juridical formulas of apostolic authority and penalties for non-compliance. In reality, this apparently harmless territorial decree is one of the early juridical instruments of the conciliar usurpation: a cold, administrative act that presupposes—with no proof and against the faith—the legitimacy of the new “pontiff,” and silently organizes the ecclesial battlefield on which the revolution against the Kingship of Christ and the pre-1958 Church will soon be executed.