Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger

Who is Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger?

Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger is a teacher and former Benedictine nun who was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church when she and six others were ordained as priests by an Independent Catholic Bishop in 2002, called herself a Roman Catholic priest and refused to recant. She was ordained a bishop in 2003 along with Gisela Forster; reportedly, the ordination was performed by Roman Catholic bishops whose identity remains a secret.

Her motivation is to promote the ordination of women within the Roman Catholic Church. The Roman Catholic Church does not recognize the ordination of women as valid cf.Can. 1024 A baptized male alone receives sacred ordination validly.http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P3P.HTM