Sacerdotal fraternity Saint-Pierre

The sacerdotal Fraternity Saint-Pierre - in Latin: Fraternitas Sacerdotalis Sancti $petri - is a company of priest S founded in 1988 by several members of the Sacerdotal Fraternité Saint-Magpie X who refused the situation of schism caused by the sacrings within the movement of Mgr Marcel Lefebvre.

Foundation and goals

Fraternity was founded on July 18th, 1988 in the Abbey of Hauterive (Swiss) by a dozen priests and some seminarists. Little time after its foundation and thanks to the assistance the cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, it was accommodated by Mgr Joseph Stimpfle, bishop of Augsburg (Germany) in Wigratzbad, sanctuary Bavarian marial.

“ It is a apostolic Société of life of pontifical right whose members, according to the terms of the right, continue the clean apostolic end of the company, and, by carrying out the common life according to a particular form, tend to perfection of charity by the observance of the Constitutions ”

The FSSP was seen granting the use of the liturgical books of 1962

Initially granted on an experimental basis, then re-examined in detail by the Saint Sits in 1999 and by the General Chapter of Fraternity in 2000, the constitutions of Sacerdotal Fraternity Saint-Pierre were definitively approved on June 29th, 2003 by the Saint Sits.

Organization

Today, Saint-Pierre Fraternity is present in more than twenty country and account more than 180 priests like 120 Séminariste S trained in two Séminaire S, one in Wigratzbad in Germany, the other in Denton with the the United States. The house généralice is located at Freiburg in Suisse since 2003. The FSSP counts 6 districts gathering 111 places of worship.

Fraternity Saint Pierre is mainly present in Europe and North America; it develops actively in Australia, Africa and South America.

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