BISHOP EDUARDO SANCHEZ CAMACHO, THD,

Founder of The Mexican National Catholic Church 

The Most Reverend Monsignor Eduardo Sanchez Camacho, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Tamaulipas, Mexico was born in September 18, 1838. He entered the seminary of Culiacan receiving minor orders in 1860 and was ordained to the priesthood two years later. He continued his studies at the Seminary of Guadalajara, receiving the Doctor of Theology and became a professor of Theology. He was named the Vicar of the Archbishop and Pro-secretary of the Mitra of Sonora. Monsignor was named to be Bishop of Tamaulipas by Pope Leo XIII in the consistory of February 27, 1880, consecrated in Guadalajara on July 29 and took possession of the Victo¬ria C. Mitra in December of the same year. In 1895 Bishop Camacho had a great falling out with his fellow Mexican bishops because of his support for the Mexican Revolution and public opposition of the cult of Our Lady of Guadelupe. The Vatican sent Archbishop Nicolás Averardi to settle  the matter, but to no avail. Msgr. Sánchez ultmately resigned from his see in October 1896 and retired to his villa, Quinta del Olvido, near Victoria in Tamaulipas, Mexico. Because of the revolution, he abandonned the Roman Catholic Church and hel;ped to establish the Mexican National Catholic Church.