due to the needs of the church in New England and the growing disability of Bishop Burns, a diabetic amputee, whose eyesight was rapidly failing. Archbishop Ford did consecrate on September 8, 1984 Edmund Floyd Leeman, Jr. as Vicar Apostolic of New Jersey, who assisted Archbishop Ford in consecrating on May 11, 1985 Beldon Edward Gannon as Missionary Bishop for New York State. On June 14, 1986 Archbishop Ford consecrated as the First Bishop of French Canada, Herve Lionel Quessy, who was subsequently elected to be the Fifth Primate of the Church upon the retirement of Archbishop James H. Rogers. Archbishop Quessy's term as Primate ended on May 26, 1991 due to reasons of health and incapacity to fulfill the responsibilities of the office. On Sunday, September 1, 1991 during the 2nd session of the Special Synod of 1991, Archbishop Ford was elected to the office of Primate. He was formally invested with the Sacred Pallium and enthroned as the Sixth Primate of the North American Old Roman Catholic Church at St. Joseph's Church in Monroe, New York on Sexagesima Sunday, February 23, 1992. On October 3, 1992 Archbishop Ford consecrated Wayne Robert Matthew Price as Vicar Apostolic of Niagara Falls, in the historic Old Roman Catholic Church of Holy Saviour in Niagara Falls, built and pastored by the late Bishop Bernardino Sandonatto, and which was consecrated by the late Archbishop Carmel Henry Carfora. Archbishop Ford resigned from the Office of Primate for health and personal reasons [cancer] on March 10, 2002 and was immediately succeeded as Primate by Archbishop Edmund F. Leeman, who was enthroned on that day at Our Lady Queen of Holy Apostles Old Roman Catholic Parish in Forked River, New Jersey. Archbishop Leeman resigned the Primacy for health and personal reasons [heart attack] on June 27, 2006.
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