Francesco Ricossa
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Fr. Francesco Ricossa is an Italian priest and superior of an independent Roman Catholic congregation of priests, called Istituto Mater Bonii Consilii, active in Western Europe.
Ricossa had been ordained priest by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre when he had been a member of the SSPX, and then taught as a faculty member at the SSPX's main seminary at Econe, Switzerland, before Ricossa led the group to breakaway as they began to follow Guerard des Lauriers's Cassiciacum Thesis or Sedeprivationism.
The Ricossa group also uses the name Sodalitium Pianum which was the name of a reactionary papal secret spy organization established by Pope St. Pius X in order to ferret out Modernist heretics from the Catholic Church and cleanse ecclesiastical circles of revolutionaries, this Sodalitium Pianum was suppressed by Pope Benedict XV and finally later on by Nazi Germany during World War II.
In 2002, Bishop Robert McKenna consecrated Rev. Fr. Geert Jan Stuyver as a bishop for Ricossa's group.
