Moisés Carmona

Moisés Carmona Rivera
ChurchIglesia Divina Providencia (Divine Providence Church), Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico
Orders
OrdinationNovember 1939
by Leopoldo Díaz y Escudero
Consecration17 October 1981
by Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục
Personal details
BornMoisés Carmona y Rivera
(1912-10-31)31 October 1912
Died1 November 1991(1991-11-01) (aged 79)
Mexico
DenominationSedevacantist Catholic
Ordination history of
Moisés Carmona
History
Priestly ordination
Ordained byLeopoldo Díaz y Escudero
DateNovember 1939
PlaceMexico
Episcopal consecration
Consecrated byPierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục
Date17 October 1981
PlaceToulon, France
Episcopal succession
Bishops consecrated by Moisés Carmona as principal consecrator
George Musey1 April 1982
Benigno Bravo18 June 1982
Roberto Martínez y Gutiérrez18 June 1982
Mark Pivarunas, CMRI24 September 1991

Moisés Carmona Rivera (31 October 1912 – 1 November 1991) was a Mexican Catholic priest from Acapulco, Guerrero, who as the leader of the Unión Católica Trento (“Tridentine Catholic Union”) became a sedevacantist traditionalist Catholic bishop. He was declared excommunicated by the pro-Vatican Metropolitan Archbishop of Acapulco in 1980. His consecration as a bishop was carried out in 1981 by Vietnamese clergyman, Archbishop Ngô Đình Thục, without the permission of the Vatican.