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The official decree of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith dated 2 July 2026 specifically declares excommunication for Bishop Alfonso de Galarreta, the four newly consecrated bishops (Pascal Schreiber, Michael Goldade, Michel Poinsinet de Sivry, and Marc Hanappier), and Bishop Bernard Fellay as co-consecrator.

It does not declare that all priests of the SSPX or all laity who formally adhere to the group were excommunicated. Instead, the decree says that clerics and lay faithful are warned not to adhere to the schism, because they would incur excommunication if they do so. That is different from saying the Vatican had already declared all SSPX priests and adherent laity excommunicated.

This matches the Vatican’s earlier 13 May 2026 statement, which said that the upcoming episcopal ordinations would be a schismatic act and that formal adherence to the schism entails excommunication under Church law. Again, that is a warning about the consequence of adherence, not a blanket decree already excommunicating every SSPX priest or lay adherent.

The official 2 July 2026 decree from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith is specific about who was declared excommunicated:

• Alfonso de Galarreta
• Pascal Schreiber
• Michael Goldade
• Michel Poinsinet de Sivry
• Marc Hanappier
• Bernard Fellay

The decree does not list or decree the excommunication of 750 priests. It also does not state that all lay Catholics with formal adherence to the SSPX were formally excommunicated in that decree. Instead, it says clerics and lay faithful are warned not to adhere to the schism, because they would incur excommunication if they do.

So the article overstates the scope of the Vatican decree. The decree named six bishops and issued a warning to others; it did not excommunicate the SSPX priesthood or all adherent laity en masse.

This sentence cites the wrong canon number for the current law.

Under the revised Book VI of the Code of Canon Law, the provision stating that a bishop who consecrates someone a bishop without a pontifical mandate, and the person who receives that consecration, incur latae sententiae excommunication reserved to the Apostolic See, is canon 1387.

By contrast, in the current code canon 1382 concerns desecration of the consecrated Eucharistic species and sacrilegious consecration. The Vatican’s own 2 July 2026 decree on the SSPX consecrations explicitly cites canon 1387 for the unauthorized episcopal consecrations.

So while older discussions of the 1988 Écône consecrations often referred to canon 1382 under the pre-2021 numbering, this article’s present-tense statement about the law governing the 2026 consecrations uses an outdated canon reference.