Bernard Tissier de Mallerais
Bernard Tissier de Mallerais is a French traditionalist Catholic prelate, serving as a bishop of the Society of Saint Pius X.
Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais, c. 2019
de Mallerais at a confirmation in 2008
The Society of Saint Pius X is a canonically irregular traditionalist Catholic fraternity of priests founded in 1970 by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. Lefebvre was a leading traditionalist at the Second Vatican Council with the Coetus Internationalis Patrum and Superior General of the Holy Ghost Fathers until 1968. The society was initially established as a pious union of the Catholic Church with the permission of François Charrière, the Bishop of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg in Switzerland.
Lefebvre, the society's founder, celebrating Tridentine Mass
The society's first seminary, the International Seminary of Saint Pius X, in Écône, Switzerland. As of 2021[update], the society has 6 seminaries – apart from Switzerland in Germany, France, Argentina, Australia, and United States.
Veldhoven, Archbishop Lefebvre giving Communion assisted by Father Franz Schmidberger
Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet, Paris, occupied by the SSPX since 1977