The Patriarch of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church.

Several years later, he formed the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church (ICAB).

Padre Cícero was posthumously canonized by the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church, a dissident religious organization.

Duarte Costa has been canonized as "St. Carlos of Brazil" by the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church.

Igreja Católica Apostólica Brasileira (Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church)

He was consecrated Bishop by a Bishop of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church, Luigi Mascolo.

Part of the Catholic Apostolic National Church which perhaps has union with the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church.

A few days after learning of his excommunication, Duarte Costa established the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church (ICAB).

He founded this church in 1949 as an extension of the Igreja Católica Apostólica Brasileira (Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church).

In 1997, the ICCEC sought and acquired consecration and ordination of all of its clergy by the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church.

A considerable number of sedevacantist bishops are said to derive from Bishop Carlos Duarte Costa, who in 1945 set up his own schismatic "Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church".

WCCAC is the result of a long path, started by Dom Carlos Duarte Costa who in 1945 organized the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church.

In the summer, two bishops make contact with the Igreja Catolica Apostolica Brasileira (ICAB), the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church.

On July 4, 1970 the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church acknowledged Dom Carlos' work for the poor and the church by granting him the title "Saint Carlos of Brazil."

Luigi Mascolo was an Italian priest who controversially defected to the Brazilian schismatic church the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church, founded by Bishop Carlos Duarte Costa in 1945.

Duarte Costa served as leader of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church and its international affiliates for sixteen years until his death in 1961, by which time the church in Brazil is said to have grown to 60,000 members.

Since then Bishop Ungerer has led the Free Catholic Church in Germany, considered to be a German expression of the independent Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church which broke away from Rome in 1945.

The Communion has its Apostolic Succession within the historical episcopate through the Rebiban line via Roman Catholic Bishop Carlos Duarte Costa, who founded the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church.

In addition, he announced plans to set up his own Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church, in which priests would be permitted to marry (and hold regular jobs in the lay world), and bishops would be elected by popular vote.

Luis Fernando Castillo Méndez (December 4, 1922 - October 29, 2009) was patriarch of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church (ICAB - Igreja Católica Apostólica Brasileira), an independent catholic church.

Upon Bishop Duarte Costa's death in 1961, leadership of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church was apparently in a flux for several years, with several individuals leading or claiming to lead the church, often for very brief periods of time.

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.

In the WCCAC, all the Churches are recognized as equal, but because of historical reasons, an honorary precedence is recognized to the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church under the leadership of Dom Josivaldo Pereira de Oliveira.

The Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church lists 48 dioceses, and is the mother church of the Worldwide Communion of Catholic Apostolic National Churches (WCCAC) a loose communion of churches in 14 countries.

He was ordained as a bishop in Munich by Roberto Garrido Padin, a bishop of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church, and Hilarios Karl-Heinz Ungerer, a German bishop of the Free Catholic Church.