The Free Catholic Church are the German Section of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church.

Church background

In 1937, the Roman-Catholic Bishop Carlos Duarte Costa Botucatu, Brazil, was forced to step down. In 1945 he accused the Vatican of having collaborated with the national socialists and fascists. He was excommunicated and founded the Igreja Católica Apostólica Brasileira was founded and, in 1949, was brought to Germany by the future Archbishop Johannes Peter Mayer-Mendez, where it was registered as Free Catholic Church.

After the death of the Archbishop, his successor Archbishop Hilarios Ungerer (also Conductor of the Bavarian Mariavite Group foundet by Bischop Paulus Norbert Maas) transferred the seat of the Archbishop, i.e. the principal seat, from Cologne to Munich, the Capital of Bavaria.

In September 1972, Bishop Hilarios Ungerer rented a shop for a "shop church" in the Thalkirchner Str. 25 in Munich, as it was in fashion in big towns at that time.

During these

The Free Catholic Church also takes care of those Christians who left the state churches, but nevertheless look for a church home, who want to have a church wedding although their first marriage was divorced, who wish to have a church funeral, or who simply long for a church, congregational community.

Although, during the entire period, the Free Catholic Church has not received any state or municipal grants.

In Germany the Free Catholic Church are in Union with several Mariavite Groups in Germany.

Today Munich also takes care of Manila/Philippines, Los Angeles and Miami/USA. Every year the Archbishop is on pastoral trips to the above mentioned missions.

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