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In 1970, the Bishop of Lausanne, Geneva, and Fribourg, His Excellency Bishop Charriere, officially recognized the canonical validity of the new Society.<ref>http://www.sspx.org/SSPX_FAQs/q1_sspx.htm</ref>  At the same time, a group of Swiss laymen offered their property in Econe to the Archbishop as a seminary for future priests.

In 1970, the Bishop of Lausanne, Geneva, and Fribourg, His Excellency Bishop Charriere, officially recognized the canonical validity of the new Society.<ref>http://www.sspx.org/SSPX_FAQs/q1_sspx.htm</ref>  At the same time, a group of Swiss laymen offered their property in Econe to the Archbishop as a seminary for future priests.

    

    

The canonical status was confirmed on February 18, 1971 by the prefect for the Sacred Congregation for the Clergy, Cardinal,<ref>Wrighthttp://www.sspx.org/SSPX_FAQs/appendix_iii_history_1.htm</ref> who praised the society statues and recognised it as an international Catholic society with the power to incardinate its clergy.  Thus, the Society became legally recognised as a legitimate Catholic society, unable to be suppressed without a genuine reason or following strict canonical procedures.

The canonical status was confirmed on February 18, 1971 by the prefect for the Sacred Congregation for the Clergy, Cardinal,<ref>Wrighthttp://www.sspx.org/SSPX_FAQs/appendix_iii_history_1.htm</ref> who praised the society's statutes and recognised it as an international Catholic society with the power to incardinate its clergy.  Thus, the Society became legally recognised as a legitimate Catholic society, unable to be suppressed without a genuine reason or following strict canonical procedures.

==Strained Relations with Rome==

==Strained Relations with Rome==