Marcel Lefebvre (1905–91) was a Roman Catholic archbishop who opposed the liberalizing changes of the Second Vatican Council (1962–65) and founded the traditionalist group the Society of St. Pius X in 1970. He was excommunicated in 1988 for consecrating bishops without approval from the Holy See, which caused the first schism in the church since 1870.
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