The ceremony took place on May 2, 2026, coinciding with the feast of Our Lady, patroness of Bavaria. The one in charge of conferring the orders was Monsignor Wolfgang Haas, emeritus Archbishop of Vaduz, whom the Wigratzbad seminary refers to as “our faithful friend”.
The ordination was celebrated in the imposing Baroque setting of the abbey basilica of Ottobeuren, one of the great historical temples of southern Germany.
According to the International Seminary of Saint Peter in Wigratzbad itself, the new deacons had been definitively incorporated into the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter the day before, in the presence of the FSSP’s vicar general, Father Hubert Bizard.
Among the new deacons, three of Spanish origin and one Mexican stand out, which points to an incipient Hispanic presence within the Fraternity. This data acquires special relevance in a context in which the FSSP still maintains a limited implantation in Spain, although not a few observers consider that it could consolidate as a more visible reality in the coming years if the vocational trend is maintained.
These twelve new deacons are added to the eight seminarians from the Denton seminary, in the United States, who were ordained last March 27 in the Fraternity’s parish in Omaha.
With these ordinations, the FSSP strengthens the new generation of clerics trained in its seminaries in Europe and the United States, in continuity with its apostolate in service of the traditional liturgy and priestly formation.
The Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter currently maintains a consolidated presence in more than 150 dioceses around the world and continues to show notable vocational stability.
According to the most recent data published by the institution itself, it has around 580 members, among whom there are about 380 priests, about thirty deacons, and more than 160 seminarians in formation, distributed mainly between its seminaries in Wigratzbad and Denton.