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
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Biography
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[ 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 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