Catholic Apostolic Charismatic Church of “Jesus the King”

The Catholic Apostolic Charismatic Church of "Jesus the King" (Spanish: Iglesia Católica Apostólica Carismática "Jesús Rey") is an independent international religious association of Catholic origin and character, with headquarters and legal recognition in Munich, Germany. It is known for its bishop, Rómulo Antonio Braschi, a former Roman Catholic priest, who performed the ordination of the Danube Seven.

The Church originated in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where its founder, Braschi, was born in 1941. He was ordained as a priest of the Roman Catholic Church in 1966. He embarked upon the early years of his priesthood against the backdrop of the political turbulence and social upheavals of Latin America in the 1960s and the repressive "National Security" governments of the 1970s. The radical stance of Braschi and his companions dates back to this time, when they were associated with the Movement of Priests for the Third World (MSTM), itself boasting radical left-wing and Peronist factions. Braschi was arrested for political reasons during the Dirty War.

Braschi responded to the message of the Second Vatican Council, the 1968 Conference of Latin American Bishops, and the growing charismatic movement by introducing a new form of church mission, modeled on the basic ecclesial community associated with the liberation theology. An experimental church - Santa Ana - started in Buenos Aires in 1975 became, in 1978, the Catholic Apostolic Charismatic Church of "Jesus the King." With this move, Braschi publicly distanced himself from the Roman Catholic Church, whose alleged collusion with the Argentine Military Junta was a widely debated aspects of the "Proceso" (Dictatorship) between 1976 and 1983. Parts of the Church also formed the vanguard in the fight against repression, and subsequently endured the persecution, detention, torture and even assassination of their own "dissident" members, such as the late Bishop Enrique Angelelli, bishop of La Rioja, in 1976.

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