Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Carlos Duarte Costa (July 21, 1888 – March 26, 1961) was the founder and first patriarch of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church and its international extension, the Worldwide Communion of Catholic Apostolic National Churches. A former Roman Catholic bishop, he was excommunicated by Pope Pius XII for doctrinal and canonical issues (such as clerical celibacy). Duarte Costa has been canonized as "St. Carlos of Brazil" by the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church. ICAB is not Roman Catholic and does not want to be Roman Catholic. Attempts by the Vatican to get ICAB back into the Roman Catholic Church have failed.[citation needed] It is well documented, especially in the autobiography of Patriarch Luis Fernando Castillio Mendez, how the early bishops and priests had to suffer under the Vatican's influence on the Brazilian government.[citation needed] ICAB does not acknowledge Roman Catholic orders as valid after 1968 and believes that they no longer have the Catholic understanding of ordination, since the ordination rites have changed so dramatically.[citation needed]. }
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- Carlos_Duarte_Costa abstract "Carlos Duarte Costa (July 21, 1888 – March 26, 1961) was the founder and first patriarch of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church and its international extension, the Worldwide Communion of Catholic Apostolic National Churches. A former Roman Catholic bishop, he was excommunicated by Pope Pius XII for doctrinal and canonical issues (such as clerical celibacy). Duarte Costa has been canonized as "St. Carlos of Brazil" by the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church. ICAB is not Roman Catholic and does not want to be Roman Catholic. Attempts by the Vatican to get ICAB back into the Roman Catholic Church have failed.[citation needed] It is well documented, especially in the autobiography of Patriarch Luis Fernando Castillio Mendez, how the early bishops and priests had to suffer under the Vatican's influence on the Brazilian government.[citation needed] ICAB does not acknowledge Roman Catholic orders as valid after 1968 and believes that they no longer have the Catholic understanding of ordination, since the ordination rites have changed so dramatically.[citation needed]".