Good Shepherd Church

Good Shepherd Church practices an authentic Catholicism rooted in the beliefs and worship of the Roman Church. The priests of this American Catholic diocese have been ordained by bishops who can trace their origins back to the Roman Catholic Church and to the Apostles. The apostolic heritage of E. Paul Raible, the Bishop who heads this American Cat... holic Community, comes down from Duarte Costa's Brazilian Church. As excitement was abounding among Catholics throughout the United States who awaited the arrival of Pope John Paul II to New York and Philadelphia in October of 1995, and an annual US Bishops' Conference in Washington, DC that November, local American Catholics were anxiously awaiting a groundbreaking event in the history of their own church. They were preparing for the arrival of representatives from Duarte Costa's church. On October 1, 1995, Most Reverend Olinto Ferreira Pinto Filho (Primate Bishop) and Most Reverend Josivaldo Pereira de Oliveira (Vice President of the Brazilian Council of Bishops) flew from Rio de Janeiro to Southern California. They assisted the Most Reverend E. Paul Raible in the ordination of Fr. Brian P. Delvaux as Auxiliary Bishop of this Independent Catholic Diocese. Delvaux, a native of Southern California, was an altar server in elementary school and completed twenty years of Catholic education. He was ordained a priest in 1974 by Cardinal Timothy Manning after his seminary training at St. John's Seminary, Camarillo, California. During his six years as a Roman Catholic priest, he served as associate pastor at St. John Fisher Church in Palos Verdes and at St. Patrick Church in North Hollywood, where he later became administrator of the parish. In 1980, after leaving the priesthood in order to be free to marry, Delvaux studied counseling as a graduate student at California State University in Long Beach. He later returned to the ministry as associate pastor of St. Matthew American Catholic Church in Orange, California, and then on to Good Shepherd Church as founding pastor. ...Read More