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Anthony Cekada
Anthony J. Cekada (July 18, 1951 – September 11, 2020) was an American sedevacantist Catholic priest and author.
Cekada was born to a Slovenian-Italian family as a third-generation American. He was raised in Milwaukee where his father worked as a chauffeur for the Schlitz family of Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. His mother died of cancer when he was 12 years old.
After graduating high school in 1969, Cekada began studying at St. Francis Roman Catholic Seminary College in Milwaukee where he "immediately began a one-man protest against ... theological and liturgical modernism" before graduating with a bachelor's degree in Theology in 1973; he studied organ and musical composition at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music.
In 1975, after two years as a Cistercian monk, he entered International Seminary of Saint Pius X in Écône, Switzerland, joined the Society of St. Pius X, completed his studies, and was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1977.
Following his sacerdotal ordination, Cekada taught seminarians at St. Joseph's House of Studies, Armada, Michigan, and St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary, Ridgefield, Connecticut.
From 1979 to 1989 he resided in Oyster Bay Cove, New York, where he did pastoral and administrative work, and edited the traditionalist publication The Roman Catholic.
In 1983 Cekada, along with eight other priests, broke with the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) over various theological and liturgical issues and several years later formed the Society of St. Pius V (SSPV), headed by then Fr. Clarence Kelly.
In 1989 Cekada left the SSPV and he moved to West Chester, where he assisted with pastoral work at St. Gertrude the Great, a Traditionalist Catholic Church. Cekada was a well-known and convinced sedevacantist, believing the popes of the Second Vatican Council to have been invalid pontiffs.
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Anthony Cekada
Anthony J. Cekada (July 18, 1951 – September 11, 2020) was an American sedevacantist Catholic priest and author.
Cekada was born to a Slovenian-Italian family as a third-generation American. He was raised in Milwaukee where his father worked as a chauffeur for the Schlitz family of Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. His mother died of cancer when he was 12 years old.
After graduating high school in 1969, Cekada began studying at St. Francis Roman Catholic Seminary College in Milwaukee where he "immediately began a one-man protest against ... theological and liturgical modernism" before graduating with a bachelor's degree in Theology in 1973; he studied organ and musical composition at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music.
In 1975, after two years as a Cistercian monk, he entered International Seminary of Saint Pius X in Écône, Switzerland, joined the Society of St. Pius X, completed his studies, and was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1977.
Following his sacerdotal ordination, Cekada taught seminarians at St. Joseph's House of Studies, Armada, Michigan, and St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary, Ridgefield, Connecticut.
From 1979 to 1989 he resided in Oyster Bay Cove, New York, where he did pastoral and administrative work, and edited the traditionalist publication The Roman Catholic.
In 1983 Cekada, along with eight other priests, broke with the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) over various theological and liturgical issues and several years later formed the Society of St. Pius V (SSPV), headed by then Fr. Clarence Kelly.
In 1989 Cekada left the SSPV and he moved to West Chester, where he assisted with pastoral work at St. Gertrude the Great, a Traditionalist Catholic Church. Cekada was a well-known and convinced sedevacantist, believing the popes of the Second Vatican Council to have been invalid pontiffs.
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