Oliver Oravec
Oliver Oravec (born 1941, Slovakia) is a traditionalist Catholic bishop currently residing in Poprad-Matejovce, Slovakia.
He studied dentistry after graduating from high school and became a dentist. In 1964 he entered an underground seminary when Czechoslovakia was under Communist control. He was ordained a priest on February 2, 1968 in Brno, Czechoslovakia by Felix Maria Davídek, a Catholic bishop ordained to pastor the underground Church in Czechoslovakia.
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.
He went to Canada and worked as a Jesuit parish priest, at St. Cyril & Methodius, 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., without the consent of Rome. After his consecration to the episcopate he has come to adhere to a sedevacantist position.
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