Hilarios Karl-Heinz Ungerer (born 1941 in

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) is a bishop of the Free Catholic Church in

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, a small

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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. Found in Ungerer opened a

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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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