Rogelio del Rosario Martinez Jr., who took the name Pope Michael II,[1] is a Filipino conclavist bishop claimant to the papacy.
According to an article he published in The Olive Tree magazine by himself, Martinez was born in Manila in 1972 and was baptized and raised as a Roman Catholic; he and his family later moved to Bulakan in 1983, when he was an elementary school graduate.
[2] In September 1984 he became an acolyte in his parish in Bulakan and in 1987, after graduating from high school, he entered the Immaculate Conception Major Seminary of the Diocese of Malolos.
[3] In 2002 he came into contact with an independent Catholic priest from the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church (ICAB) and resumed his priestly training with such Church, aligning himself with traditionalist Catholicism and sedevacantism, coming to the conclusion that all Popes following the death of Pope Pius XII were invalid because they had endorsed the "heretical" Second Vatican Council.
[2] In 2019 he came into contact with David Bawden, a conclavist bishop who had claimed to be the legitimate Roman pontiff under the regnal name Pope Michael.
One year later he made his profession of faith to Bawden, formally recognizing him as the legitimate Pope and came into full communion with him and his followers.