Hilarios Ungerer

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Hilarios Karl-Heinz Ungerer (* 1941 ) is Bishop of the Free Catholic Church in Germany .

Life

In 1967, the nurses and casual workers Karl-Heinz Ungerer by Cyprien Damgé , Archbishop of Gallican Church of France , for priests ordained. In the same year he received the benediction to titular abbot by Renatus Malvy , the patriarch of the same church. In 1970 he was ordained bishop by Mar Emanuel, a bishop of the Catholic Apostolic Church, in the Jacobite tradition . Ungerer made himself a primate of the Catholic-Gallican Church of Germany , which had not existed until then. In 1974 the Gallican Church of Germany was integrated into the Free Catholic Church. Here Ungerer was appointed archbishop coadjutor within the Free Catholic Church. On October 6, 1976, he was re-ordained sub-conditione by the Archbishop of the Order of the Mariavites - Foreign Jurisdiction , Maria Norbert Paulus Maas , with the simultaneous assignment to lead another congregation in Munich until August 8, 1978. Maas accepted the resignation from the foreign jurisdiction in 1978.

The website of the Free Catholic Church reported in spring 2015 that Hilarios Ungerer was “suffering from a fatal cancer” and therefore could not have received “any personal honors” on February 15, 2015, the day of his 45th bishop's anniversary. For Holy Saturday 2015, however, a “last pontifical office [...] with His Eminence, Archbishop Hilarios Ungerer DD and the clergy” was announced.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. DER SPIEGEL (April 1, 1974; p. 81): Bishops. Chevalier et docteur ; accessed on November 23, 2016
  2. Dates of consecration according to the information given under Free Catholic Church: Pictures ; read on September 27, 2008.
  3. Mariaviten: Demission Ungerer ( Memento of the original from May 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mariavit.de
  4. ^ Free Catholic Church: News ; accessed on November 23, 2016
  5. Free Catholic Church: Order of Worship ; accessed on November 23, 2016