Most Reverend Dom Carlos Duarte Costa was born at the neighbourhood of Saint Antonio, the residence of his uncle, then Eduardo Duarte da Silva, in the City of Rio de Janeiro as a son of João Matta Francisco Costa and Maria Carlota Duarte da Silva Costa on July 21, 1888. He was baptized on September 3, 1888, by the Reverend Father Francisco Goulart and confirmed by Most Reverend João Eberhard. At the age of nine, he made his first communion, on July 24, 1897, in the Cathedral of Uberaba, at the hands of his uncle, Archbishop Eduardo Duarte e Silva. He concluded his primary studies at Santa Rosa College in Rio de Janeiro. Later, his uncle was raised to the Episcopal Dignity, being nominated Diocesan Bishop with his See in Uberaba, exerting a dynamic and efficient apostolate in the pasturing of the souls in his diocese. As a child of nine years, Carlos Duarte Costa was taken by his uncle, Eduardo Duarte e Silva, now an archbishop, to Rome to study in the American College Boarding School Pius-Latin where he completed courses in the minor seminary. In 1905, he returned to Brazil for health reasons, having been entered in the largest seminary in Uberaba, for the Congregation of Augustinian Priests, where he finished his Philosophical and Theological studies in the major seminary. Deacon Carlos Duarte Costa was a senior cleric for his uncle, Eduardo Duarte e Silva, in the Cathedral Church of Uberaba. In the same Cathedral Church, Father Carlos Duarte Costa celebrated his first Mass filled with the faithful on May 4, 1911. After his ordination, he returned to Rome to better himself and obtained a Doctorate in Theology at the Gregorian Pontifical University of Rome. Returning from Rome, he worked with his uncle, Eduardo Duarte e Silva in Uberaba, as Secretary of the Diocese.

REVEREND FATHER CARLOS DUARTE COSTA WITH HIS BISHOP OUTSIDE

Reverend Father Carlos Duarte Costa was awarded with title of Monsignor for the publication of a catechism for children. Soon afterwards, he was nominated Apostolic Protonatario and General Secretary of the Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro, for His Eminence. Cardinal Sebastião Leme da Silveira Cintra, succeeding His Eminence Cardinal Joaquim Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti, executing this function until May 24, 1923, when the Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro was nominated.

ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESAN BISHOP OF BOTUCATU.

Since the death of His Excellency Bishop Lacio in 1923, Botucatu remained a vacant diocese. For his work, for his dynamism and virtues, in the fulfilment of his duty in the Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro, His Holiness. Pope Pius XI (Most Reverend Ambrogio Cardinal Damiano Achille Ratti) nominated Monsignor Carlos Duarte Costa as the Diocesan Bishop of Botucatu on July 04, 1924. Monsignor Duarte Costa’s Episcopal consecration took place at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro, on December 8, 1924. He was consecrated by His Eminence the Most Reverend Sebastião Leme Cardinal da Silveira Cintra, assisted by Most Reverend Alberto José Gonçalves, His Excellency the Bishop of Ribeirão Preto, and the Most Reverend Benedito Paulo Alves de Souza, His Excellency the Bishop of Espírito Santo. Brazil.

POLITICAL AND SOCIAL INFLUENCE

In the 1930s, he was one of the great articulators of Catholic Electoral Union where Catholics also defended the Catholic vote against the politicians. It intended of this to form and to preserve the Christian principle in the Laws and Acts of the Politicians, as for example, the creation of a rule of law for the divorce, that it is an act denied the poor persons for the Roman Catholic Church, but widely supported for the Bible. In 1932, on the occasion of the Constitutionalist Revolution, His Excellency Most Reverend Carlos Duarte Costa formed a “Diocesan Battalion of the Hunters,” generally known as the “Battalion of the Bishop,” to fight to the side of the Constitutionalist Troops. For this he collected deep between the fiduciary offices, he sold his pectoral gold cross with amethyst and precious gems, and a farm of the Diocese, demonstrating his deep love to the cause of the freedom and to the democratic institutions. Such acts caused great national repercussions; it had who supported it, therefore being Dom Carioca Carlos, he raised the São Paulo flag and he made many more compatriots; but he also had those who disapproved, and were envious of his popularity, as he, acting as a true Moses, was searching for all the forms and ways of freedom for the Brazilian people. Due to the construction of the new Cathedral, of the Orphanage and the College, in addition to other projects, Bishop Carlos Duarte Costa initiated the sale of some property of the Diocese, to be able to erase the debt, with the purpose to support, and to help the hungry poor persons of the time. The benefits of his shining administration are still standing in the São Paulo City of Botucatu, as a testimony of his capacity and determination.

POLITICAL PRESSURE AND FORCED RESIGNATION

Government President Getúlio Dornelles Vargas infuriated with His Excellency. Most Reverend Dom Carlos Duarte Costa for his having convened a battalion of soldiers from the Constitutional Troops to join him in his struggle against the corruption of the government. His Excellency President Getúlio Dornelles Vargas asked the Holy See of Rome for the removal of His Excellency Most Reverend Carlos Duarte Costa from the Diocese of Botucatu. The Vatican could not do this directly, so the Apostolic Nuncio to Brazil entered into an agreement with the Secretary of the Diocese of Botucatu to obtain the resignation of His Excellency, Most Reverend Carlos Duarte Costa as Diocesan Bishop of Botucatu. This sneaky act by the secretary in the daily documents and reports that Most Reverend Carlos Duarte Costa always had to sign placed the resignation letter within a series of documents which His Excellency, Most Reverend Carlos Duarte Costa signed as a result of the deception. The Diocesan secretary of Botucatu informed the Holy See of Rome that His Excellency, Most Reverend Dom Carlos Duarte Costa had signed the document mistakenly without reading it. This happened in the beginning of 1937.

The Holy See of Rome renounced claims that Most Reverend Dom Carlos Duarte Costa letter of resignation was a forgery based on the verbal evidence of the  Secretary of the Diocese. His Excellency's resignation was accepted by Hs Holiness Pope Pius XI on the 22nd September 1937. After the acceptance of his resignation His Excellency, Most Reverend Carlos Duarte Costa was appointed Titular Bishop of Maura, an extinct diocese of Africa. He was permitted to have his full sacramental privileges by His Eminence, Most Reverend Cardinal Sebastião Leme da Silveira Cintra, until he passed away in 1942.

TITULAR BISHOP OF MAURENSI.

After his “forced resignation,” His Excellency the Most Reverend Carlos Duarte Costa abandoned the life of rich capitalism imposed by the Vatican and went to live humbly in the City of Rio de Janeiro as Diocesan Bishop Emeritus of Botucatu with the title of Titular Bishop of Maura. His Excellency obtained the determined support of his protector His Eminence, Most Reverend Sebastião Leme Cardinal da Silveira Cintra, "Cardinal -Priest" who granted His Excellency, Most Reverend Duarte Costa permission to keep a particular Chapel with the Blessed Sacrament in its residence. He also permitted His Excellency to preside over marriages, to celebrate festive and solemn masses, act as co consecrator and to manage the Sacrament of the Chrism in the parishes where he was invited by the respective priests and bishops along with sacraments too.

He was allowed to act as a co consecrator for fellow bishops of the Roman Catholic Church in Brazil such as Bishop Eliseu Maria Coroli, B. † on the 13 October 1940. "Some 3 years after he had already been appointed as a ‘Titular‘. His Excellency, Most Reverend Dom Eliseu Coroli served on all 4 councils of Vatican II. SEE: http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bcoroli.html .

DIVERGENCE FROM THE ROMAN CHURCH

His Excellency, Most Reverend Dom Carlos Duarte Costa had started in Botucatu he had started alone. Speaking against the domination that oppressed the poor Brazilian people and mainly the sacrifices of the work force, he renounced the luxury and material products obtained through their oppressed labour. Archbishop Carlos Duarte Costa intensified his politic work and was critical of the efforts of the Roman Catholic Church. Most Reverend Dom Carlos Duarte Costa went very well in Rio de Janeiro, under the protection of His Eminence, Most Reverend Dom Sebastião Leme Cardinal da Silveira Cintra. However with the death of his protector and friend His Excellency the Most Reverend Dom Jayme Cardinal de Barros Camara was nominated as the new Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro. The Roman Catholic Church Cardinal persecuted him, he pursued Dom Carlos to great extreme, cutting all the Episcopal exemptions to him that had been granted by his predecessor in the Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro. 'Such persecutions are still carried on today, his predecessor Most Reverend Dom Castillo Mendez was tortured and persecuted in 1948 and so are many other predecessors from the Patriarchal line of Most Reverend Dom Castillo Mendez in todays civilised society by various Roman Catholic Bishops'.

On June 6, 1944, His Excellency, Most Reverend Dom Carlos Duarte Costa by the order of the Brazilian government facilitated by the Roman Catholic Apostolic Nuncio joining the Brazilian fascists was imprisoned and led to Belo Horizonte where he was accused of being a communist sympathizer and remained imprisoned until September 6, 1944. When the order against the Brazilian Association of the Press was lifted the government of Mexico and the United Nations intervened together to the Brazilian government through its intermediaries of their embassies in favour of His Excellency, Most Reverend Dom Carlos Duarte Costa.

FOUNDING OF THE CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF BRAZIL

His Excellency, Most Reverend Dom. Carlos Duarte Costa re established the Catholic Apostolic Church of Brazil (Igreja Católica Apostólica Brasileira) on the 5 July 1945 and published his Manifesto on July 25, 1945. (Photo of Most Reverend Dom. Carlos Duarte Costa wearing the new grey soutanes by order of the Brazilian courts)The extract of the statutes of the New Church was published in Federal official gazette, Page 12, 637, July 25, 1945. The Catholic Apostolic Church of Brazil was registered in Book No. 2 of the Civil Societies under Number 107.966 of the Book A, Number 4.  " Most Reverend Dom. Carlos Duarte Costa appointed Father Olinto Ferreira Pinto Filho as his personal secretary for the new founded Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church. Father Olinto Ferreira Pinto Filho was consecrated sacred bishop by His Excellency, Most Reverend Dom. Pedro dos Santos Silva who was consecrated sacred bishop by His Excellency, Most Reverend Dom. Carlos Duarte Costa in 1956.

IN DEATH, EXALTED TO THE ALTARS

His Excellency, Most Reverend Dom. Carlos Duarte Costa guided, directed, and governed the Brazilian Church with a firm hand for sixteen (16) years until he fell asleep in Christ at Rio de Janeiro on Palm Sunday being March 26, 1961. At that time Most Reverend Dom. Carlos Duarte Costa at an age of 73 year old age, had 50 priests and 37 bishops. The death of his Excellency moved all of the Brazilian people, mainly in the City of Rio de Janeiro. Igreja-Mae and Couto Street of fiduciary offices had been overcrowded with people. The people wanted to see their shepherd. It was a burial worthy of any sacred Bishop who was very much loved by the people. The coffin with the mortal remains of His Excellency, Most Reverend Dom. Carlos Duarte Costa proceeded down Igreja-Mae, on Couto No. 54 Street, where His Excellency is entombed with all the honours of a bishop in the presence of the college of bishops of the Catholic Apostolic Church of Brazil (Igreja Católica Apostólica Brasileira). The life of Most Reverend Carlos Duarte Costa being distinguished for its absolute chastity, devotion the Holy Virgin Maria and the Eucharistic, where he passed several hours daily in worship to the most august Sacrament of the Altar.

Therefore, all who have had appealed to the Triune God, through his intercession, had been blessed with favours and miracles. Due to everything he had done, he was granted the honour of the altars by the national episcopate from July 4 to 6, 1970, on the Street of the Couto, No. 54, quarter of the Penha, in Rio de Janeiro, with the title of “São Carlos of Brazil.”

HIS EXCELLENCY, MOST REVEREND Dom. CARLOS DUARTE COSTA CONSECRATED HIS EXCELLENCY the MOST REVEREND Dom. LUIS FERNANDO CASTILLO MENDEZ IN 1948.

FOURTH catholic bishop that received Episcopal consecration from the sacred hands of His Excellency, Most Reverend Dom. Carlos Duarte Costa. A pure Roman Catholic Apostolic Succession was His Excellency, Most Reverend Luis Fernando Castillo-Méndez in the Balboa Republic of Panama on May 3, 1948, with the title of “Titular Patriarch of Caracas” and Primate of Venezuela for having founded the Venezuelan Catholic Apostolic National Church. see http://www.hrcac.org.uk/most-reverend-castillo-mendez.-archbishop-of-brasilia.-brazil.html

Upon the death of His Excellency, Most Reverend Dom. Carlos Duarte Costa and Most Reverend Dom. Castillo Mendez became the Patriarch of Brazil. Archbishop of Brasilia. Brazil.

His Beatitude, Most Reverend Dom. Luis Fernando Castillo-Méndez, Patriarch of Brazil. Archbishop of Brasilia succeeded the late Most Reverend Dom. Carlos Duarte Costa as Primate in 1961. Most Reverend Dom. Luis Fernando Castillo-Méndez was still leading the Archdiocese of Brasilia until is death on the 29th October 2009 at 09.00 AM. Most Reverend Dom. Castillo Mendez also founded a further society / church authorised and decreed to be autocephalous known by the name of SPLXIII which was founded as a Tridentine society / Church which adheres to the pre Vatican II doctrine and liturgy.

DE JURE & DE FACTO -NO QUESTION OF VALIDITY.

His Excellency, Most Reverend Dom. Salomão Barbosa Ferraz was a former Roman Catholic priest, he was consecrated sacred bishop by His Excellency the Most Reverend Dom. Carlos Duarte Costa in August 1945. He eventually reconciled with the Roman Catholic Church in 1958 during the pontificate of Pope Pius XII. His Excellency, Most Reverend Dom. Salomão Barbosa Ferraz was named by the Holy See of Rome to be Titular Bishop of Eleuterna on May 12, 1963. Although still married His Excellency, Most Reverend Dom. Salomão Barbosa Ferraz was later appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Rio de Janeiro by Pope John XXIII. He was later called by His Holiness Pope Paul VI to serve on a working commission of the Second Vatican Council; he addressed the Council Fathers in session. It is notable that His Excellency. Most Reverend Salomão Barbosa Ferraz was never re-consecrated by the Roman Catholic Church (sub conditione / ad cautelmn). He was later buried with the full honours accorded a Catholic Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.

By the Holy See of Rome accepting His Excellency the Most Reverend Dom. Salomão Barbosa Ferraz in this manner without any reconsecration affirmed “de Jure” and “de Facto” the sacramental validity of the lines of apostolic succession of the His Excellency, Most Reverend Carlos Dom. Duarte Costa still possessed.

His Excellency, Most Reverend Dom. Orlando Arce-Moya was also consecrated by His Excellency the Most Reverend Dom. Carlos Duarte Costa. Most Reverend Orlanda Arce Moya was the eighth (8) catholic Bishop consecrated by His Excellency the Most Reverend Dom. Carlos Duarte Costa. His Excellency, Most Reverend Dom. Orlando Arce-Moya made his own submission to Rome, he was accepted with full Episcopal functions again with deconsecrating ‘ sub conditione / ad cautelm‘. His Holiness Pope John XXIII simply accepted the Most Reverend Dom. Orlando Arce-Moya’s consecration as being valid and licit. . He was appointed by the Holy See as Auxiliary Bishop to the Archbishop of Madrid in Spain. His Excellency, Most Reverend Dom. Arce-Moya died some years later and was buried with full honours as a Roman Catholic bishop.

Again by the Holy See of Rome accepting the above bishops from the Most Reverend Dom. Carlos Duarte Costa’s hands after he was appointed Titular Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church has affirmed de jure and de facto the sacramental validity of His Excellency, Most Reverend Dom. Carlos Duarte Costa’s Apostolic Succession.

See continuation of Episcopal Holy Orders of His Excellency, Most Reverend Dom. Luis Fernando Castillo Mendez. Archbishop of Brasilia. Brazil.