Hilarios Karl-Heinz Ungerer (born 1941 in
Nuremberg
Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ...
) is a bishop of the
Free Catholic Church in
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...
, a small
Independent Catholic
Independent Catholicism is an independent sacramental movement of clergy and laity who self-identify as Catholic (most often as Old Catholic or as Independent Catholic) and form "micro-churches claiming apostolic succession and valid sacramen ...
denomination. Ungerer, with Bishop
Roberto Garrido Padin, ordained Bishop
Rómulo Antonio Braschi in 1998, who ordained a group of women known as the
Danube Seven in 2002.
[ Jarvis, Edward, ''God Land & Freedom, The True Story of ICAB,'' Apocryphile Press, Berkeley CA, 2018, pp. 166-167]
History
In 1967, Ungerer was ordained as a priest in the independent Catholic church movement in Germany twice, and was consecrated as a bishop several years later.
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Ungerer opened a
storefront church
A storefront church is a church, usually in the North American context of the United States, and to a much lesser extent, Canada, that is housed in a storefront or strip mall building that formerly had a commercial purpose.
Often, the interior ...
in Munich. In 1976, On 6 October 1976 Ungerer was consecrated ' as a bishop by Mariavite Bishop Norbert Maas, but on 8 August 1978 he was separated from that association.
Since then Ungerer has led the Free Catholic Church in Germany,
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References
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1941 births
20th-century German bishops
Living people
Archbishops of the Free Catholic Church
German bishops
21st-century German bishops