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Article: Illicit priests become illicit bishops.(Austria)
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- Catholic Insight
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- October 1, 2003
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Munich -- Two of the seven Catholic women who were illicitly ordained in June, 2002, on board a boat on the River Danube by a defrocked priest who declared himself a bishop, and who were subsequently excommunicated by the Vatican, have announced their "consecration" as bishops. Gisela Forster from Germany and Christine Mayr-Lumetsberger from Austria told reporters in Munich on 26 June that they had been consecrated in Scharnastein, Upper Austria!
Forster, who is a co-organiser with Mayr-Lumetsberger of a training course for women "seminarians," said they had been asked by "certain bishops" if they were prepared to accept the responsibility of conferring the ...