some time prior to June 14, 1912 the date of the incorporation in Columbus, Ohio of the National Catholic Diocese in North America, Carmel Henry Carfora had been consecrated by Bishop Paolo Miraglia-Gullotti, who had been consecrated as Old Catholic Bishop of Italy at Piacenza on May 6, 1900 by Archbishop Joseph Rene Vilatte. By May of 1908 Bishop Gullotti had emigrated to America and was living in New York City and later in West Virginia, where he worked closely with the then, Father Carfora. There is no other way to explain the conditional re-consecration by Archbishop Berghes in 1916 or the existence of Bishop Carfora's National Catholic Diocese in North America prior to 1916. By 1916 the name of the organization had been changed to the National Catholic Church of America. Soon the National Catholic Church of America entered into union with Bishop Berghes’ Old Roman Catholic Church and was reincorporated on October 17, 1917 in Illinois, as the North American Old Roman Catholic Diocese, with the Primatial See at Chicago. Upon the death of Archbishop Berghes in 1919, the title of the church was amended to the North American Old Roman Catholic Church, and Archbishop Carfora succeeded to the Primatial Chair as the Second Primate. Archbishop Carfora consecrated "sub conditione" on JULY 30. 1942... HUBERT AUGUSTUS ROGERS, as Bishop of New York, at All Saints Church in Chicago, Illinois. Bishop Rogers had previously been consecrated on November 7, 1937 by Archbishop William E.J. Robertson, assisted by Archbishop Edmund Bennett and Bishop Robert Jackson of the African Orthodox Church. In 1946 Archbishop Carfora elevated Bishop Rogers to the rank of Archbishop of New York. Following the death of Archbishop Carfora, Archbishop Rogers was elected in May 1958 as the Third
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