Tomás de Aquino Ferreira da Costa

Miguel Ferreira da Costa (born 1954) known as Dom Tomás de Aquino, is the prior of the Holy Cross Monastery in Nova Friburgo (Rio de Janeiro State), a refuge for priests who have left the Society of Saint Pius X.
He entered the Abbey of Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux in Vaucluse, France, in 1974 and took the name Thomas Aquinas. He was ordained a priest in 1980 in Écône by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. In 1987, he and a group of monks from la Barroux left to Brazil to start the Monastery of the Holy Cross in Nova Friburgo.
He is a traditionalist bishop with the "Marcel Lefebvre Priestly Union" (SSPX Resistance). Bishops Richard Williamson and Jean-Michel Faure consecrated him a bishop, 19 March 2016.
 
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