Moisés Carmona

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.

Biography In November 1939, Carmona was ordained a priest of the Roman Catholic Church by Leopoldo Díaz y Escudero, Bishop of Chilpancingo-Chilapa. Carmona became a seminary professor.

In the aftermath of the liberalising changes in the Catholic world following the Second Vatican Council, in the 1970s, Carmona became a strong supporter of the Mexican former Jesuit priest and pioneer of sedevacantism, Joaquín Sáenz y Arriaga. With him, he was involved in creating the journal Trento, through which traditionalist and sedevacantist ideas were promoted. After the death of Sáenz y Arriaga, Carmona became the de facto leader of Mexican sedevacantism and founded the Unión Católica Trento (“Tridentine Catholic Union”) in January 1977, along with Fr. Adolfo Zamora Cruz, heavily supervised by the Mexican integrist secret society Los TECOS.

In 1981, Carmona and Zamora were brought by the German sedevacantists Dr Eberhard Heller and Dr Kurt Hiller to the Vietnamese sedevacantist bishop Ngô Đình Thục in Toulon, France. Thục consecrated them bishops

Carmona went on to consecrate four more purported bishops: Mexicans Benigno Bravo and Roberto Martinez y Gutiérrez, and Americans George Musey and Mark Pivarunas.