New York Times, September 24, 2006
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An African archbishop who wants to make celibacy optional for priests installed four married men Sunday as Roman Catholic bishops.
The Archdiocese of Washington did not recognize the installations. ''This means nothing within the church,'' spokeswoman Susan Gibbs said.
Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo -- whose marriage to a woman chosen by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon scandalized the Roman Catholic Church -- performed the ceremonies at a Capitol Hill church.
Installed were the Rev. George Augustus Stallings, Jr., of Washington, Peter Paul Brennan, of New York, Patrick Trujillo, of Newark, N.J., and Joseph Gouthro, of Las Vegas.
The four men claim affiliation to the breakaway Synod of Old Catholic Churches.
''We are not only validly ordained Catholic bishops, but we are ordained Roman Catholic bishops,'' Stallings said.
