Hilarios Karl-Heinz Ungerer
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Biography
Hilarios Karl-Heinz Ungerer (born 1941 in Nuremberg) is a Free Catholic Church in Germany bishop in Munich, though he ministered through other independent European churches. Ungerer was a co-consecrator along with Bishop Roberto Garrido Padin of Bishop RĂ³mulo Antonio Braschi in 1998, who ordained a group of women known as the Danube Seven in 2002.
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.
Ungerer opened a storefront church in Munich. In 1976, he became part of the German branch of the Mariavite Church, 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.