Background
Pfluger was born in Oensingen, in the canton of Solothurn, Switzerland, November 3, 1958.
Pfluger was born in Oensingen, in the canton of Solothurn, Switzerland, November 3, 1958.
He was ordained a priest July 1, 1984, at Zaitzkofen (Bavaria, Germany) by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. In 1989, after 5 years of apostolate at Oberriet, Switzerland, then at Basel, he was named District Superior of the Society of Saint Pius X in Switzerland. In 1991, he became the Rector of the Society of Saint Pius X Seminary in Zaitzkofen, Germany.
In 1998, he returned to Switzerland once again as District Superior of the Society of Saint Pius X in that country.
In 2004, he was named District Superior for the Society of Saint Pius X in Germany. In 2006, at the General Chapter of the Society of Saint Pius X, he was elected First Assistant to Bishop Bernard Fellay the Superior General.
First Assistant to the Superior General is the second most important position in the Society of Saint Pius X. As a member of the General Council with Bishop Fellay and the Second Assistant, Father Alain Nelly, he takes part in deliberations concerning the most important questions of the Society of Saint Pius X.