Apostolic Constitutions – Page 9

Traditional Catholic bishop in Santa Cruz do Sul Cathedral contemplating the usurpation of authority under John XXIII.

Constitutio Apostolica Portalegrensis in Brasilia (1959.06.20)

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The Latin text attributed to John XXIII announces the erection of a new ecclesiastical circumscription in Brazil, the so-called Diocese of “Sanctae Crucis in Brasilia” (Santa Cruz do Sul), by detaching specified municipalities from the Archdiocese of Porto Alegre, defining territorial limits, designating Santa Cruz do Sul as episcopal see, raising the parish church of St John the Baptist to cathedral rank, determining suffragan dependence on Porto Alegre, ordering the creation of a chapter or diocesan consultors, prescribing at least an elementary seminary, regulating economic support for the new structure, and imposing canonical procedures for documents and governance. All of this is wrapped in solemn legalistic formulas asserting universal jurisdiction and demanding unconditional obedience to the will of the signer.

Traditional Catholic priest holding decree in Ruanda-Urundi highlands, symbolizing doctrinal tension between authentic mission and conciliar revolution.

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Constitutio Apostolica NGOZIENSIS – KITEGAËNSIS (1959.06.11)

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The text establishes, by decree of John XXIII, a new Apostolic Vicariate of Usumbura (in then-Ruanda-Urundi) carved out of the Vicariates of Ngozi and Kitega, entrusted in principle to indigenous clergy, with the usual juridical rights and obligations of such missionary circumscriptions; it presents this purely administrative act as an expression of zeal for the propagation of the faith and local ecclesial maturity. In reality, it is an early and highly symptomatic piece of the conciliar revolution: a technocratic partition of territories that cloaks the demolition of authentic Catholic mission under the rhetoric of decentralisation, promotion of indigenous elites, and subjection of the Church to the geopolitical designs of the same forces condemned by Pius IX and St. Pius X.

A Dominican priest in traditional habit stands on a rocky shore in the Solomon Islands, holding a crucifix aloft as native Islanders gather in reverence.

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Insularum Salomonicarum (1959.06.11)

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The document “Insularum Salomonicarum” (11 June 1959), issued in Latin under the name of John XXIII as an apostolic constitution, performs a seemingly technical act: it detaches specified islands of the Solomon archipelago from the existing Northern and Southern apostolic vicariates and erects a new apostolic vicariate of the “Western Solomon Islands,” entrusting it to the Dominicans, with the usual juridical faculties and obligations. It wraps this territorial rearrangement in language about the limitless expansion of the Kingdom of Christ and exhorts the missionaries to make the fertile lands of the Solomons rich in Christians, legally armoring the act with the standard formulae of papal authority and canonical penalties.

Behind this façade of administrative piety stands the incipient program of the conciliar revolution: the instrumentalization of ecclesiastical structures to prepare the global neo-church, already embryonic in 1959, which would soon betray the Kingship of Christ and dissolve the very missionary mandate it claims to advance.

A sedevacantist priest in traditional vestments stands solemnly in front of a historic Catholic cathedral in Simla (Shimla), India, holding a copy of the 'Delhiensis et Simlensis' document, with the Himalayan mountains in the background.

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Delhiensis et Simlensis (1959.06.04)

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The Latin text promulgated by John XXIII under the name Constitutio Apostolica “Delhiensis et Simlensis” (4 June 1959) announces the erection of a new so‑called diocese of Simla, carved out of the then archdiocese of Delhi and Simla, assigning territories in Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, designating Simla (Shimla) as its center with the former co-cathedral of St. Michael and St. Joseph as its cathedral, regulating its status as suffragan to Delhi, prescribing a seminary, a chapter or diocesan consultors, defining the episcopal mensa, and entrusting execution to the Apostolic Internuncio and the “Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith.” It is presented as a pastoral response to the alleged flourishing of the faith in India and a sign of missionary growth.

A solemn Catholic bishop in traditional vestments praying in front of a historic cathedral in Tehuantepec, Mexico, embodying the spiritual gravity of the 1959 apostolic constitution Verae Crucis - Tehuantepecensis.

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Verae Crucis — Tehuantepecensis (1959.05.23)

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The presented apostolic constitution, issued by antipope John XXIII in 1959, announces the detachment of territories from the Archdiocese of Veracruz and the Diocese of Tehuantepec in Mexico in order to create a new diocese of San Andrés Tuxtla, defines its boundaries, appoints its metropolitan (Veracruz), regulates the erection of a seminary and a future cathedral chapter, and lays down canonical-administrative norms for implementation, all under the pretense of pastoral utility and more efficient governance of souls. In reality, this seemingly technical decree manifests the juridical self-assertion and incipient ecclesiological mutation of the coming conciliar sect, dressing future apostasy in the solemn style of pre-conciliar law in order to occupy Catholic structures from within.

A reverent depiction of St. Joseph's Cathedral in Tlaxcala, Mexico, with Pope John XXIII and Archbishop Angelorum in prayerful reflection.

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Angelorum-Mexicanae (Tlaxcalensis) (1959.05.23)

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The Latin text presents an apostolic constitution of John XXIII, by which he detaches territory from the Archdioceses of Puebla de los Ángeles and Mexico to erect the new diocese of Tlaxcala, defining its borders, cathedral (St Joseph in Tlaxcala), suffragan relation to Puebla, basic provisions regarding seminary, canons or diocesan consultors, diocesan goods, and procedural norms for execution by the Apostolic Delegate in Mexico. It is a meticulously juridical act of territorial and administrative reconfiguration which, under the guise of pastoral concern, consolidates the new conciliar regime in Mexico and presupposes as unquestionable the authority of the very architect of the revolution against the Catholic order.

Catholic bishop in Ambatondrazaka, Madagascar, representing the contested Apostolic Constitution with traditional devotion and historical backdrop.

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Constitutio Apostolica «Ambatondrazakaensis» (1959.05.21)

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The text promulgated under the name of John XXIII and titled De Diego Suarez — Tananarivensis (Ambatondrazakaënsis) formally erects a new territorial diocese in Madagascar (Ambatondrazaka), carved out from the territories of Diego Suarez and Tananarive, entrusting it to clergy of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity, defining its cathedral, its suffraganeus dependence on Tananarive, its seminary, chapter (or diocesan consultors), revenues, curial order, and delegating the execution to Marcel Lefebvre as Apostolic Delegate.

A Catholic bishop in traditional vestments stands in the ruins of Nagasaki's Urakami Cathedral, holding a scroll with Latin text from the 1959 decree 'Qui cotidie moerore', symbolizing the Church's resilience amid persecution.

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Qui cotidie moerore (1959.05.04)

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The Latin text promulgated under the name of John XXIII on 4 May 1959, beginning with “Qui cotidie moerore,” announces the removal of the dioceses of Nagasaki, Fukuoka, and Kagoshima from the ecclesiastical province of Tokyo and the erection of a new ecclesiastical province of Nagasaki, elevating Nagasaki to a metropolitan see with Fukuoka and Kagoshima as suffragans, and appointing Paul Aijro Yamaguchi as first metropolitan. The document clothes a purely juridical reorganization in pious language about the growth of the Church in Japan.

A Catholic bishop in traditional vestments stands before African faithful in a mission church in Rhodesia Septentrionalis or Nyassaland, 1959.

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Rhodesiae Septemtrionalis et de Nyassaland (1959.04.25)

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The document under review, issued under the name of Ioannes XXIII on 25 April 1959, formally erects two new ecclesiastical provinces in British Central Africa: Rhodesia Septentrionalis and Nyassaland. It reorganizes apostolic vicariates into territorial dioceses, designates Lusaka and Blantyre as metropolitan sees, transfers titular prelates to the new diocesan and archdiocesan sees, subordinates these jurisdictions to the Congregation de Propaganda Fide, regulates cathedral locations, seminaries, chapters or consultors, temporal goods, and prescribes canonical norms for governance, all within the framework of the then Roman central authority.

Behind this apparently orderly structuring stands the juridical and theological self-destruction of authority on the eve of the conciliar revolution, revealing how institutional expansion was already being used to prepare an earthly apparatus soon to be turned against the Kingship of Christ and the integral Catholic faith.

A solemn image of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Nzerkoré, Guinea, under the guidance of the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers), symbolizing the structural promotion of the diocese in 1959 by John XXIII.

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NZEREKOREENSIS (1959.04.25)

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The constitution “Nzerekoreensis” of John XXIII announces the promotion of the Apostolic Prefecture of Nzérékoré (Guinea), entrusted to the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers), to the rank of diocese, subject to Conakry as metropolitan see and dependent on the Congregation of Propaganda Fide, delineating its territory, cathedral, governance, seminary, chapter, and administrative norms, and cloaking all this in pious language about the Church as the tree that spreads over the earth. In reality, this text is an early juridical brick in the construction of the conciliar neo-church, masking an ecclesiological mutation and preparing the displacement of the true apostolic hierarchy by a paramasonic missionary administration oriented not to the reign of Christ the King, but to the new cult of man.