The Free Catholic Church in Germany () is a Christian religious community in Germany which was legally registered in 1987.

Johannes Peter Meyer-Mendez Johannes Peter Meyer-Mendez (March 6, 1909 in Randerath, Germany – February 24, 1976 in Cologne) was the founder and first archbishop of the Free Catholic Church in Germany. He founded this church in 1949 as an extension of the Brazilian Catho ...

brought the

Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church The Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church (, ; ICAB) is an Independent Catholicism, Independent Catholic Christian denomination, Christian church established in 1945 by Excommunication in the Catholic Church, excommunicated Catholic Church in Brazi ...

(ICAB) to

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in 1949. It was registered as the Free Catholic Church ("Freikatholische Kirche"). After Meyer-Mendez died, became the leader, then

Hilarios Karl-Heinz Ungerer Hilarios Karl-Heinz Ungerer (born 1941 in Nuremberg) is a bishop of the Free Catholic Church in Munich, a small Independent Catholic denomination. Ungerer, with Bishop Roberto Garrido Padin, ordained Bishop Rómulo Antonio Braschi in 1998, who ...

became the leader and moved from

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to Munich. In 1972, Ungerer opened a

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in Munich; over the next 25 years he endeavoured to integrate marginal groups into the church.Free Catholic Church website
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{{Authority control Independent Catholic denominations Christian organizations established in 1949 Christian denominations established in the 20th century