On Pentecost, 5 June 1995, Maurice Archieri (1923–2016), a retired car mechanic living in the Parisian suburb of Le Perreux-sur-Marne, received an intellectual vision where the Holy Ghost made him the Vicar of Christ.  Archieri took the name Pierre II–Peter II–but clarified that he was not the pope.  According to his understanding, John Paul II materially occupied the Holy See.  However, he was not a valid–formal–pope but the leader of a new non-Catholic religion.  Based on private revelations and apocalyptical writings, Archieri claimed that there could be no pope in the current era and that he, as the Vicar of Christ, was the leader of the Catholic remnant in the age of general apostasy.

See the Alternative Pope Project Working Paper “Maurice Archieri (1923-2016): The Vicar of Christ in Le Perreux-sur-Marne”, which also includes a collection of texts written by Pierre II.

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5 thoughts on “Maurice Archieri: The French Vicar of Christ”

    1. He had a son so their probably was a wife. He doesn’t anything about her. In one of the videos I spot an older woman, but it might be an ordinary adherent. Please not that I uploaded a new version with three extra documents.

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    1. It’s unclear. He appointed his son as a kind of successor, but that might be as a leading bishop, not the Vicar of Christ. As far as I know the son, if alive, is not into the church founded by his father. At least that’s what I read on one of the few traditionalist sites that discuss his claim.

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