The next day, the archbishop of Acapulco, Felipe Aguirre Franco, said the lawmakers who voted for it would be automatically excommunicated.

The person who receives consecration from him is also automatically excommunicated.

In effect, they have automatically excommunicated themselves from sharing in communion.

On 4 May 2006, the Holy See's Press Office declared that Ma had been automatically excommunicated for being ordained without the pope's approval.

A Catholic ordained to the episcopacy without a mandate from the Pope is automatically excommunicated and is thereby forbidden to celebrate the sacraments.

The Holy See Press Office announced in an unsigned statement two days later that Milingo had been automatically excommunicated by that act.

The Catholic Church is one of many Christian denominations that do not ordain women, and in fact any woman who attempts to be ordained is automatically excommunicated.

Consecrated as bishop in 2006 without pontifical mandate, he was automatically excommunicated, if not already out of communion.

From the point of view the Roman Catholic Church, they are schismatics, and as such are automatically excommunicated.

Sponga was automatically excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church for marrying Barrett.