 The liturgy was translated into the vernacular, clergy were expected to live and work among the people and support themselves and their ministries by holding secular employment.Shortly after founding ICAB Costa consecrated four bishops, Salomão Barbosa Ferraz in 1945, Antidio Jose Vargas and Jorge Alves de Souza in 1946, and Luis Fernando Castillo Mendez in 1948.Costa, Ferraz, and Mendez attempted to establish similar autonomous National Catholic Apostolic Churches in several other Latin American countries.