Death
of a former Roman Catholic bishop
Mario Renato Cornejo Radavero, former titular
bishop of Sanavus and former auxiliary bishop of Lima, died at Rouen, France, on 22 November 2015.
Bishop Cornejo left the Roman Catholic
Church in 1969 and married. He eventually moved to France and settled in Mont
Saint-Aignan, near Rouen, with a traditionalist community, l’Eglise Sainte-Marie,
founded by a former Benedictine monk, Father Maurice Cantor. On 7 June 1970 he
conferred episcopal ordination on Father Cantor and on 11 October 1987 he
conferred episcopal ordination on two priests of the same community, Father
Roland Fleury and Father Claude Ducrocq, whom he had previously ordained
priests. The above-mentioned episcopal ordinations were conferred without papal
mandates.
Several others have claimed to have been
ordained bishops by Bishop Cornejo, but I have not seen documentation of those ordinations.
Bishop Cornejo was one of a handful of living
council fathers of the Second Vatican Council.
Information concerning Bishop Cornejo has
been virtually non-existent for more than a decade and it was during a Google
search on 21 November that I found a publication from Mont Saint-Aignan which
mentioned his death.
In the January 2016 issue of Le Mag,
on page 13, in the list of recent deaths, is the briefest notice of his death: “22/11
Mario CORNEJO, 88 ans.” May he rest in peace.
