Argentine Catholic Apostolic Church
| Iglesia Católica Apostólica Argentina (Argentine Catholic Apostolic Church) | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | ICAA |
| Classification | Independent Catholic |
| Polity | Episcopal |
| Associations | Worldwide Communion of Catholic Apostolic National Churches |
| Region | Argentina |
| Founder | Leonardo Morizio Domínguez |
| Origin | c. 1973 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Branched from | Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church |
The Argentine Catholic Apostolic Church (Spanish: Iglesia Católica Apostólica Argentina, ICAA), also known as the Argentine National Church, was a church derived from the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church (ICAB). ICAA was founded c. 1973 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, by Leonardo Morizio Dominguez, its first archbishop and primate. After ICAA dissolved, its bishops founded separate congregations.
Morizio Dominguez was a former Roman Catholic priest, apparently after converting from Judaism, and served as a military chaplain during the 1960s. He was consecrated as archbishop and primate in 1972 by Luigi Mascolo, an ICAB bishop.
ICAA styled itself as a national church and was registered in the Registro Nacional de Cultos (Spanish for National Register of Religions) c. 1978.
In 1973, Pedro Ruiz Badanelli (1899–1985), converted and was consecrated as a bishop by Morizio Dominguez. Badanelli was a notable former priest of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe, Argentina, an academic canon lawyer, founder of university departments, and dissident catholic supporter and friend of President Juan Perón. In 1958, Badanelli wrote, in his book Perón, La Iglesia y un Cura, that he rejected the idea of an Argentine state religion similar to the Church of England, and denied the rumour that in 1960 ICAB Bishop Carlos Duarte Costa clandestinely consecrated him in Buenos Aires. Nonetheless Badanelli later adhered to ICAA (though his dissidence and militant support of Perón had never actually earned him excommunication) and was consecrated by Leonardo Morizio Dominguez in 1973. Badanelli objected strongly to the Roman Catholic hierarchy's public proposal that ICAA clergy should wear pearl grey colored cassocks, like the ICAB clergy, to distinguish them from Roman Catholic clergy.
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