Rogelio Martinez
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Papacy began
| July 23, 2023
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Predecessor
| David Bawden
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Opposed to
| Francis
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Ordination
| 2003
by Bishop Joseph V. Galaroza
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Consecration
| 6 February 2010
by Archbishop Joel Clemente
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Born
| Rogelio del Rosario Martinez Jr.
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Nationality
| Filipino
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Denomination
| Conclavist
traditionalist Catholic
(since 2020)
Formerly
Independent Catholic
(2002-2020)
Roman Catholic
(until 2002)
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Spouse
| Linda Jacinto
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Children
| Rogelio Martinez III
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Rogelio del Rosario Martinez Jr.
,
[1]
who took the name
Pope Michael II
, is a Filipino
conclavist
bishop claimant to the
papacy
. He was elected by
lot
at a conclave held in Vienna, Austria, in July 2023.
Born in Manila, the Philippines, Martinez graduated from a
Roman Catholic
seminary
in 1997 but did not seek
holy orders
. After teaching law at university level, Martinez came into contact with the
independent catholic
movement in 2002 and was ordained as a priest in 2003. Elevated to bishop in 2010, Martinez made a profession of faith to David Bawden, known as
Pope Michael I
, in 2019. David Bawden was an American
conclavist
who believed that the
Catholic Church
had
apostatized
from the Catholic faith since
Vatican II
, and that there had been no legitimate popes elected since the death of
Pope Pius XII
in 1958. Bawden organised a conclave at which he was elected Pope in 1989.
Pope Michael I died in August 2022. Martinez was elected as his successor as Pope, choosing the
papal name
Michael II. Pope Michael II continues to reside in the Philippines and speaks both English and Tagalog. He is married with one child.
Biography
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Early life and ordained ministry
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According to an article he published in
The Olive Tree
magazine by himself, Martinez was born in
Manila
in 1972 and was baptized and raised as a
Roman Catholic
; he and his family later moved to
Bulakan
in 1983, when he was an elementary school graduate. During elementary school, he had joined a
bible study group
of the
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches
.
[2]
In September 1984 he became an
acolyte
in his parish in Bulakan and in 1987, after graduating from high school, he entered the Immaculate Conception Major Seminary of the
Diocese of Malolos
. After graduating with Master's in Pastoral Theology in 1997, he did not submit himself for ordination to the diaconate and remained a
layman
.
[2]
He taught for some years at the
Centro Escolar University
and later studied law at the
Polytechnic University of the Philippines College of Law
, graduating in 2004. During that period, he married Lynn Jacinto and the two had a child.
[3]
In 2002 he came into contact with an independent Catholic priest from the
Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church
(ICAB) and resumed his priestly training with such Church, aligning himself with
traditionalist Catholicism
and
sedevacantism
, coming to the conclusion that all Popes following the death of
Pope Pius XII
were invalid because they had endorsed the "heretical"
Second Vatican Council
. he was ordained on 7 December 2002 and later a priest in 2003 by Bishop Joseph V. Galaroza. He subsequently served as assistant priest at
Novaliches
and later at
Santa Mesa
and was installed as parish priest at Our Lady of Fatima Parish Church in San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan in 2004.
[4]
In 2009, Martinez founded the Sacrae Crucis Franciscanum, an independent catholic Church to celebrate the sacraments according to the Tridentine Mass.
[5]
It currently has 200 families.
Seven years later he was consecrated a bishop by Archbishop Joel Clemente and Bishop Heyward Ewart of the Catholic Charismatic Church (CCC) on 6 February 2010 at the St. Andrews Seminary in
Quezon City
. In 2012, after Clemente's retirement due to health reason, he was appointed Archbishop by the CCC's Patriarch Augustine I (John Walzer).
[2]
In 2019 he came into contact with
David Bawden
, a
conclavist
bishop who had claimed to be the legitimate Roman pontiff under the regnal name Pope Michael. One year later he made his
profession of faith
to Bawden, formally recognizing him as the legitimate Pope and came into
full communion
with him and his followers.
[6]
[2]
Claim to the papacy
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Pope Michael died on 2 August 2022.
[7]
On July 29, 2023, Martinez was elected as Bawden's successor in a
conclave
in Vienna, Austria. He took the name Michael II.
[7]
Mainstream Roman Catholic Bishop Jose R. Rojas of
Libmanan
who is also the chairman of the Episcopal Commission of Doctrine of the Faith of the
Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines
advised Catholics not to support Martinez or risk facing excommunication. Rojas says Martinez is not a Catholic priest.
[8]
[9]
Martinez runs a parish in
San Jose del Monte
in
Bulacan
and has conducted events including officiating a Mass for his followers.
[8]
A
papal coronation
for Martinez took place on 28 October 2023 in
Meycauayan
.
[8]
The ceremony featured the first use of a
papal
tiara in over 50 years (although all Popes since Paul VI have been presented with tiaras by supporters, Pope John Paul I elected to hold a papal installation instead of a coronation and no other antipope has had a tiara made for their use).
[10]
References
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- ^
"The Pope Speaks: Pope Pius XI"
.
The Olive Tree
.
VII
(6). September 2022.
- ^
a
b
c
d
Martinez, Rogelio (2022).
"My Vocation Story"
.
The Olive Tree
.
VII
(2).
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"October 2022: Olive Tree - Vatican in Exile"
.
www.vaticaninexile.com
. Retrieved
January 15,
2024
.
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"Our Lady of Fatima Parish Church"
.
Net Ministries Network
. Retrieved
October 18,
2023
.
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https://www.catholicprofiles.org/post/an-interview-with-archbishop-rogelio-martinez-scf-d-d
- ^
"Habemus Papam!: Michael II"
.
Magnus Lundberg
. August 10, 2023.
- ^
a
b
"PH-born anti-Pope's followers risk excommunication, says Catholic bishop"
.
Philippine Daily Inquirer
. September 7, 2023
. Retrieved
September 12,
2023
.
- ^
a
b
c
Aguila, Nick (September 11, 2023).
"A Filipino 'Anti-Pope' Exists, And He's Going to Be Crowned in Bulacan"
.
Esquire
.
- ^
"Bishop warns Filipinos over support to anti-pope"
.
UCA News
. September 5, 2023.
- ^
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMRj2QJAXcg
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