Manuel Alonso Corral (1934 – 15 July 2011), known by his

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as Isidoro María and by his papal name as Peter II, was the Pope of the Palmarian Christian Church, a mysticalist group not recognised by the

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, from 2005 to 2011. Corral was a

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, but he left his legal practice to join Clemente Domínguez y Gómez, who founded the Carmelite Order of the Holy Face in 1975. Corral was ordained

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and

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by Catholic Archbishop

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in 1976 along with Domínguez and three others (these three others had already been Catholic priests for many years). Archbishop Thuc and the five new bishops were excommunicated by

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for consecrating bishops without the

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's approval. Thuc recanted and repudiated his consecrations for the Palmar-based Carmelite Order of the Holy Face. He asked Pope Paul VI to be forgiven and was absolved of all ecclesial penalties in 1976, until 1981 when he was again excommunicated by

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for illicit consecrations. In 1978, Domínguez claimed that

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created him pope in 1978 in a mystical vision and transformed the Order into the

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. Domínguez, now called Pope Gregory XVII, named Corral

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of their church and named him his successor in 2000. This appointment – instead of leaving this decision to a Palmarian

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– contributed to a rift in the church. Upon Domínguez's death in 2005, Corral succeeded him as Pope Peter II and headed the Palmarian Christian Church until his own death in 2011.

Film

In the 1986 Spanish film '' Manuel y Clemente'', Manuel is played by Juan Jesús Valverde.

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