The Apostolic Succession and the Coat of Arms of The Most Reverend Edward J Ford, TOR, STD

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attempt at reconciliation with Rome took place, but without success. It would not be seriously attempted again until after the Second Vatican Council. Archbishop van Santen, assisted by the Bishop of Haarlem, consecrated on JULY 17, 1854... HERMANNUS HEYKAMP, as Bishop of Deventer, who did consecrate, in the Church of St. Lawrence and St. Mary Magdalene in Rotterdam on AUGUST 11, 1873... GASPARDUS JOHANNES RINKEL, as Bishop of Haarlem, and Josef Hubert Reinkens as the first bishop of the Old Catholic Church in Germany, (who in turn on September 18, 1876 in the old parish church at Rheinfelden consecrated Eduard Herzog as the first bishop of the Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland (Old Catholic)). At this ceremony, the formal proofs of election were read in the place of the Papal Mandate, and the two bishops did not notify the Pope of their consecration. Bishop Rinkel, assisted by the Bishop of Deventer and Bishop Reinkens of Germany, consecrated on MAY 11, 1892... GERARDUS GUL, as Archbishop of Utrecht. On September 29, 1907 Archbishop Gul, assisted by the Bishops of Haarlem and Deventer, consecrated Francis Hodur as the first bishop of the Polish National Catholic Church in the United States. Archbishop Gul, assisted by Bishop van Thiel of Haarlem, Bishop Spit of Deventer and Bishop Demmel of Germany, consecrated on APRIL 28, 1908... ARNOLD HARRIS MATHEW, at St. Gertrude's Cathedral in Utrecht, Holland as the Old Roman Catholic Bishop of Great Britain and Ireland. In December 1911,

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