Alfred Seiwert-Fleige

Father Seiwert-Fleige kneeling before Pope John Paul II, after he concelebrated at the papal Mass, on the occasion of his regularization by the Congregation for the Clergy. St. Peter's Square, Vatican City, 2001.

The Rev. Alfred Paul Seiwert-Fleige is a Roman Catholic priest and former Palmarian Catholic/Carmelite Holy Face Order and later on Traditionalist Catholic bishop (vagant) who resides in Rosenheim, Germany.

He was ordained a priest by Roman Catholic Archbishop Ngo Dinh Thuc for the Carmelite Order of the Holy Face (an religious congegration within the Independent Catholic movement) on December 31, 1975 and later Antipope Dominguez consecrated him a bishop for his Palmarian Catholic Church on November 1, 1978 at El Palmar de Troya, Spain. In 1980 Seiwert-Fleige left the Palmarian movement.

Bishop Jean-Gérard Roux (not in communion with the Holy See)later re-consecrated him conditionally on April 8, 1995.

He eventually reconciled with the Holy See under Pope John Paul II and publicly concelebrated at a papal Mass. He was regularised as a priest, and therefore his Holy Orders were not regarded as invalid, though his episcopal orders seem to have been suppressed. He is one of the first of the Thuc-line clergy to be regularised and fully recognised by the Holy See. He continues to function as a priest at Rosenheim, near Munich, Bavaria, Federal Republic of Germany.