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The Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church (ICAB) is one of the catholic institutions in the world that is independent administratively and theologically of the Roman Apostolic Catholic Church (ICAR). This is a national church created in Rio de Janeiro city officially on July 6, 1945, for Dom Carlos Duarte Costa, until then Mauraās Bishop, who was excommunicated from the ICAR, in the same year, for practicing acts that displeased the Vatican. Despite having a doctrinal root similar to Roman Catholicism, the ICAB has notable differences, such as the nonacceptance of the Popeās power as the highest religion authority and the rejection of the clerical celibacy.
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With a millenarian existence, the Roman Apostolic Catholic Church is characterized for a religion institution responsible for defining and propagating its doctrines around the world. It rules the Catholicās lives in several countries from a central authority: the Pope. However, the ICARās argument of unity and...
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de Macedo, M.R. (2018). Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church. In: Gooren, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08956-0_545-1
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