To replace Bernie Fellay (1994-2018), the 24-year Superior-dictator of the Neo-SSPX, the 41 members of the Neo-SSPX General Chapter elected on July 11, 2018, Fr. Davide Pagliarani as Superior-general until the year 2030. The General Chapter is taking place from July 11-21, 2018, in Econe, Switzerland, in the archseminary of the Neo-SSPX.
Pagliarani, a 47-year-old Italian who was ordained in 1996 by Fellay himself, is of relatively recent vintage. He served in the small town of Rimini, Italy, and became Fellay's Superior for the District of Italy. Since 2012 he has been rector of the Neo-SSPX's seminary in La Reja, Argentina, succeeding Bishop Richard Williamson, who abandoned Fellay and his Neo-SSPX because of Fellay's impending sellout to Newrome. On July 12, 2018, Bishop Alfonso de Galarreta, one of Archbishop Lefebvrre's four original bishops, was elected First Assistant, and Fr. Christian Bouchacourt, Superior of the French District, was elected Second Assistant.
Davide Pagliarani is described by those who know him as "moderate and diplomatic" -- in other words, a man who is not likely to have the courage to stand up publicly and firmly against the heretical Newchurch and its heretical Newpope Francis-Bergoglio like a Savonarola, as is called for. There is also the suspicion that an Italian was elected to expedite the merger of the Neo-SSPX with Newchurch. It is suspected that he is going to be a front for Superior-dictator Bernie Fellay, who had fallen into such antipathy for his high-handed actions to sell out to the New Order that he could not be re-elected in nomine ipso.
Alfonso de Galarreta is the least well-known of the four original bishops whom the originally-traditional SSPX's founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, consecrated in 1988. Galarreta signally failed to check Bernie Fellay's Grand Plan to sell out the Neo-SSPX, which Fellay reorganized away from the Archbishop's original traditional organization, but together with Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais and, to a lesser extent, Bishop Richard Williamson, remained almost silent in the face of the planned sellout.
Christian Bouchacourt is a notorious autocrat. When several leading Neo-SSPX priests in France, seven deans and three superiors, publicly disagreed with Bernie Fellay's sellout of Neo-SSPX marriages to the authority of Newchurch, Bouchacourt had the priests literally thrown out of their churches. Bouchacourt also spent "buddy buddy" time in Buenos Aires with Jorge Bergoglio (later Francis-Bergoglio), when the latter was Newarchbishop there. [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by the Italian daily La Stampa and the TRADITIO Network's International Correspondent, Petrus Romanus.]