Lucian Earl Pulvermacher (1918 - 2009)

Born 20 Apr 1918 in Rock, Wood County, Wisconsin

Ancestors

Died 30 Nov 2009 at age 91 in Springdale, Stevens County, Washington

Biography

Lucian Pulvermacher is Notable.

This profile is part of the Pulvermacher Name Study.

Lucian Pulvermacher has German Roots.

Son of Hubert Joseph Pulvermacher 1889–1985 and Cecelia Gertrude Lenerz 1895–1999

Lucian Pulvermacher (born Earl Pulvermacher, 1918–2009) was a traditionalist schismatic Roman Catholic priest and a modern-day antipope. He was the head of the "True Catholic Church", a small conclavist group that elected him Pope Pius XIII in Montana in October 1998. At the time of his death, he lived in Springdale, Washington.

Born on April 20, 1918 in Rock, Wood County, Wisconsin, near Marshfield, Earl Pulvermacher was one of nine children of a farm family. His three brothers became priests

In 1942, at the age of 24, he joined the Capuchin Order, taking the religious name Lucian. He was subsequently ordained to the priesthood on June 5, 1946. At first he was posted to a parish in Milwaukee, but in 1948 he was sent to the Ryukyu Islands of Japan. He spent the greater part of his career as a Capuchin (from 1948 to 1970) in the Ryukyu Islands, including Okinawa. In 1970, he was transferred from Japan to Queensland in Australia, where he continued his missionary work until his disillusionment with the changes that followed the Second Vatican Council of 1962–1965.

In January 1976 he left the Capuchin Order and returned to the United States to join forces with traditionalist priest Conrad Altenbach in Milwaukee. "I was without money," he later remembered, "without a home or anything. The few things I brought along with me I could carry in two bags." He left what he called "the Novus Ordo, bogus Council Vatican II Church" and began to collaborate with the Society of Saint Pius X, which rejected Vatican II, until he distanced himself from them as he adopted more extreme sedevacantist views. He later wrote that he had spent eight months "with the general Latin Mass traditionalists until I saw there was no unity. Hence, I am alone on the job here in the States since August 1976."

From 1976 on, Lucian Pulvermacher lived with his parents in Pittsville, Wisconsin, celebrating Mass in the traditional rite in private chapels, until 1992, when he moved his ministry to Antigo, Wisconsin. By 1995 he had adopted conclavist views. In 1998 he moved to Kalispell, Montana, invited to say Mass in a chapel there.

In October 1998 a group of sedevacantist lay Catholics met in Kalispell, intending to constitute a conclave for a papal election. They elected him, and he adopted the title of "Pope Pius XIII". From Montana he issued statements, appointed advisors as cardinals, and performed ordination rites. After 2005, he made no more public statements as his health declined.

Rev. Lucian Pulvermacher died on 30 November 2009

Sources

Find A Grave: Memorial #47061789 Lucian Earl Pulvermacher

https://infogalactic.com/info/Lucian_Pulvermacher

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucian_Pulvermacher