Oliver Oravec
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Oliver Oravec is a traditionalist Catholic bishop currently residing in Poprad-Matejovce, Slovakia. He was born in the Slovak Republic, 1941. He studied medicine after graduating from high school and became a dentist. In 1964 he entered an underground seminary, as Czechoslovakia was behind the Iron Curtain under Communist control. He was ordained a priest on February 2, 1968 in Brno, Czechoslovakia by Felix Maria Davídek, the underground Roman Catholic Bishop of Brno.
In 1979 he was forced to flee his homeland when someone revealed his underground activities to the authorities. For a time he was a member of the Society of Jesus in Rome, until he came to believe, that the Jesuits were by then a principal source of the problems affecting the Church. He went to Canada and worked as a parish priest in Toronto until abjuring the Mass of Paul VI in 1983, and began to help traditionalist Catholics in Ontario. For a time Fr. Oravec SJ worked together with the Society of St. Pius X, but stopped this cooperation after he had come to adhere to sedevacantism or, initially, the Cassiciacum Thesis.
He was consecrated a bishop on October 21, 1988 at Monroe, Connecticut by Most. Rev. Robert F. McKenna, O.P. After his irregular consecration to the episcopate he has come to adhere to a hard-line sedevacantist position.
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| Episcopal Lineage | |
| Consecrated by: | Robert McKenna |
| Date of consecration: | October 21, 1988 |
| Consecrator of | |
|---|---|
| Bishop | Date of consecration |
| John Hesson | June 6, 1991 |
| Raphael Cloquell | October 24, 1996 |
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