Conclavist claimants to papacy
Pope Krav I. Mirko Fabris, elected in 1978 in Zagreb, Croatia, died in 2012.[1]
Pope Michael (1990). In 1990, Teresa Stanfill-Benns and David Bawden of Kansas in the US, called for a conclave to elect an antipope. They publicised their request around the world, but only six people participated in the election. On July 16, 1990, the six gathered in Belvue, Kansas, and elected Bawden who took the name Pope Michael.[1][6]
Pope Linus II (1994). Another conclave, this time held in Assisi, Italy, elected the South African Victor von Pentz, an ex-seminarian of the Society of St Pius X, as Pope Linus II in 1994. Linus took up residence in Hertfordshire, England.[1][7][8]
Pope Pius XIII (1998–2009). In October 1998, the U.S.-based "true Catholic Church" elected Friar Lucian Pulvermacher as Pope Pius XIII. He died on November 30, 2009. No successor has been named since his death.[1][8]
Pope Leo XIV (2006–2007). On 24 March 2006 a group of 34 episcopi vagantes elected the Argentine Oscar Michaelli as Pope Leo XIV. On his death on 14 February 2007, he was succeeded by Juan Bautista Cardinal Bonetti, who took the name of Pope Innocent XIV, but resigned on 29 May 2007. He was succeeded by Alejandro Tomás Cardinal Greico, who took the name of Pope Alexander IX.[1][8]
Mysticalists
Technically distinct from the conclavism claimants are the "popes" (sometimes called "mysticalists") whose claims to the papacy derive from alleged divine revelations or apparitions. In these cases, there is no "conclave" process.
Alleged divine appointment was the basis for the pre-Vatican II (1950) claim of Michel Collin (1905–1974) to the papacy as Clement XV.[9][10] Collin's sect survives, divided into different factions, to this day.
Mysticalist claimants
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As can be seen, several of the mysticalists in the following list have styled themselves Pope Peter II, a name that has apocalyptic connotations in view of the "prophecy of Saint Malachy".
The leaders of the Palmarian Catholic Church
Pope Emmanuel, the Italian Gino Frediani (1913–1984), a priest of Gavinana, who asserted his claim in 1973.
Pope Peter II, Chester Olszewski of Pennsylvania, a former Episcopalian priest, who asserted his claim in 1977 or 1980
Pope Gregory XIX, the American Reinaldus Michael Benjamins, who asserted his claim in 1983.
Pope Adrian VII, better known to American Catholics as Francis Schuckardt of the Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen, who asserted his claim in 1984.
Pope Peter II, born Maurice Archieri, living in Paris or Le Perreux, France, who asserted his claim in 1995.
Pope Peter Romanus II, born William Kamm of Cologne, Germany, a convicted sex offender currently in prison in Australia. Kamm, who is known as the "Little Pebble", apparently does not currently pretend to the papacy, but is claimed to be the next pope in waiting.
Pope Peter II, born Aime Baudet, of Brussels, Belgium.
Pope Peter II, born Julius Tischler, a German, about whom little is apparently known.
Pope Peter-Athanasius II, who lives, according to different sources, in Brussels or in Canada.
Pope Leo XIV, of Angoulême, France.
Pope Gregory XVII, Jean-Gaston Tremblay of the Apostles of Infinite Love in Quebec: successor to "Clement XV" (Michel Collin)[11]
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