The Instituto María Rosa Mystica, Sacerdotes Misioneros Carismáticos (Institute of Mary Mystical Rose – Charismatic Missionary Priests) is a small independent Catholic association under the protection of the independent Catholic Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church. Founded in 2004 by Bishop Gustavo Adrian Gabucci, it consists of independent Catholic priests and laypeople in Buenos Aires, Argentina. History Gustavo Gabucci was born in Buenos Aires in 1965. He completed his ministerial and priestly formation at the Roman Catholic Major Seminary at La Plata (capital city of Buenos Aires Province), gaining a degree in philosophy from the Universidad Católica Argentina (Argentine Catholic University) in addition to theological studies. He received the Minor Orders from Bishop (later Cardinal) Quarracino. Still, He left the seminary, disillusioned with the Roman Church's stance on personal freedom and lifestyle choice, shortly before his Diaconal ordination. In 1991 he was ordained into the Brazilian Order of San Andres (St Andrew), which was founded as a non-denominational Christian Catholic congregation in 1928 by Reverend Salomao Barbosa Ferraz. When the Order of San Andres closed their Argentine branch in the mid-1990s and decided to pursue the possibility of entering into full communion with the Vatican, Father Gabucci joined the independent Iglesia Católica Apostólica Argentina (Argentine Catholic Apostolic Church) founded in 1970, which wasn't Roman Catholic but in communion with the Igreja Católica Apostólica Brasileira – the breakaway Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church. The Argentine Catholic Apostolic Church (Iglesia Católica Apostólica Argentina) was under the leadership of Bishop Jose Eugenio Tenca Rusconi, who consecrated Father Gabucci as his auxiliary bishop in 2000. The following year Tenca Rusconi radically restructured the Argentine Catholic Apostolic Church, encouraging his bishops to found autonomous congregations, united in a broad federation of Christian Catholic religious associations. In response to this Bishop Gabucci founded the Institute of Mary Mystic Rose – Charismatic Missionary Priests, which has materialized as an independent missionary congregation, maintaining only minimal links with the other young congregations of the ICAA. In 2005 the congregation secured the full legal recognition and patronage of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church – under the leadership of Dom Luis Fernando Castillo Mendez – and now depends directly on the Brazilian Church's Patriarchate in Brasilia, while maintaining its practical autonomy even in disciplinary matters. Theology The institute considers itself to be fully Christian and Catholic, maintaining the seven Catholic Sacraments and the apostolic succession of its clergy members in an unbroken line