Time Line 1977 Oct 272008 Births Ordinations Religious Professions Consecrations Cardinal Antonios Naguib Deaths Venerations Saint Albert Chmielowski Beatifications Saint Miguel Febres Cordero Muñoz Canonizations Founded Elevations Publications Other Events Pope Paul VI ends automatic excommunication of divorced American Catholics who remarry, a decree first imposed by American bishops in 1884 and only to the dioceses of America 1976 1978