Hilarios Karl-Heinz Ungerer

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Hilarios Karl-Heinz Ungerer (born 1941 in Nuremberg) is a bishop of the Free Catholic Church in Munich, a small Independent Catholic denomination.^[1] 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.^[2]

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.^[3][a]

Ungerer opened a storefront church in Munich. In 1976, he became part of the German branch of the Mariavite Church,^{[citation needed]} On 6 October 1976 Ungerer was consecrated sub conditione 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, considered to be a German expression of the independent Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church.^{[according to whom?]}

Notes

1. Ungerer was initially ordained as a priest by Eglise Catholique Gallicane Autocéphale Bishop Jean Damge (religious name Cyprian) in 1967. He was first consecrated as a bishop by ^{[clarification needed]} (religious name Mar Emanuel) in 1970.^[3]