Carlos Duarte Costa Apostolic Succession of The Most Reverend William J. M. Smith, OSB
Carlos Duarte Costa Succession through +Michael Thomas
From Jesus Christ to the Apostles Peter, James, John, Andrew, Simon, Matthew, Jude, Bartholomew, Phillip, James, Thomas, and their successors, the Bishops of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church 33 AD to 1566 AD to Scipione Cardinal Rebiba consecrated Bishop in the Roman Catholic Church 1566. The Roman Succession that led to: Carlos Duarte Costa
March 12, 1566, Scipione Cardinal Rebiba consecrated Cardinal Santinio; who on September 7, 1586, consecrated Cardinal Benninio ; who on April 4, 1604, consecrated Cardinal San Vitale ; Who on May 7, 1621, consecrated Cardinal Gaetani ; Who on October 7, 1630 consecrated Cardinal Carpegna ; who on May 2, 1666, consecrated Cardinal Altieri ; who on February 3, 1675, consecrated Cardinal Orsini (Pope as Benedict PP XIII 1724); who on July 16, 1723, consecrated Prospero Lambertini (Pope as Benedict PP XIV 1740); who on March 19, 1743, consecrated Carol della Torre Rezzoni (Pope as Clement PP XIII 1758); who on April 26, 1767, consecrated Bernardinus Giraud (Cardinal 1771) ; who on February 23, 1777, consecrated Alexander Matthaeus (Cardinal 1770) ; who on September 12, 1819, consecrated Peter Francis Galetti (Cardinal 1803) ; who on December 8, 1822, consecrated James Phillip Fransoni (Cardinal 1826) ; who on June 8, 1851, consecrated Charles Sacconi (Cardinal 1861) ; who on June 30, 1872, consecrated Eduard Howard (Cardinal 1877) : who on December 8, 1882, consecrated Mariano Rampolla Marchese del Tindaro (Cardinal 1887);Who on October 26, 1890, consecrated Joaquin de Albuquerque Calvacanti (Cardinal 1905);Who on June 4, 1911, consecrated Sebastiao Leme de Silveira Cintra (Archbishop 1921); Who on December 8, 1924, consecrated Carlos Duarte Costa, who on July 6, 1945 established the Catholic Apostolic Church, in Brazil.
The lines of succession from Carlos Duarte Costa:
On August 15, 1945, Bishop Carlos Duarte Costa consecrated Salmeo Ferraz ; who on May 29, 1951, consecrated Manuel Ceja Laranjeira ; who on August 15, 1965, consecrated Benedito Pereira Lima ; who on August 1, 1966, consecrated Jose M. Machado ; who on December 2, 1967, consecrated Oscar Fernandez ; who on April 29, 1969, consecrated Agusto Montez Silvieri ; who on November, 1972, consecrated Gerald Gates ; who on February 3, 1997, consecrated Ronald D. Nowlan ; who on April 19, 2003, consecrated Bruce D. Campbell; who on June, 2004 consecrated Charles E. Klughart; Who on November 19, 2005 consecrated D. Michael Thomas; Who on November 1, 2008 consecrated William Joseph Smith, OSB
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The Orthodox Church of the Holy See of Antioch Line of Apostolic Succession through the Most Reverend D. Michael Thomas of
TheMostReverend,DomWilliamJ.M.Smith,OSB
Abbot Bishop of the Abbey of the Incarnation and Titular Bishop of the Ancient See of Glastonbury
Peter the Apostle -- 38 A.D. to 40 A.D.
Evodius 40 to 43
Ignatius I, Martyr 43 to 123
Earon 123 to 137
Cornelius 137 to 142
Eados 142 to 157
Theophilus 157 to 171
Maximinus 171 to 179
Seraphim 179 to 189
Asclepiades, Martyr -- 189 to 201
Philip 201 to 219
Zebinus -- 219 to 237
Babylos, Martyr 237 to 250
Fabius -- 250 to 251
Demetrius 251 to 257
Paul I 257 to 270
Domnus I 270 to 281
Tomotheus 281 to 291
Cyrilus 291 to 296
Tyrantus 296 to 301
Vitalius 301 to 318
Philogonius 318 to 323
Eustachius -- 323 to 338
Paulinius 338 to 383
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Evagrinus 386 to 416
Phosphorius -- 416 to 418
Alexander 418 to 428
John I -- 428 to 431
Theodotus 431 to 442
Domnus II 442 to 449
Maximus 450 to 453
Accacius 454 to 457
Martyrius 457 to 464
Peter II 464 to 500
Philadius 500 to 509
Severius the Great 509 to 544
Sergius -- 544 to 547
Domnus III 547 to 560
Anastasius -- 560 to 564
Gregory I 564 to 567
Paul II -- 567 to 571
Patra 571 to 586
Domnus IV 586 to 591
Julianus 591 to 595
Athanasius I 595 to 635
John II 636 to 649
Theodorus I 649 to 667
Severus -- 668 to 684
Athanasius II 684 to 687
Julianus II -- 687 to 708
Elias I 709 to 724
Athanasius III 724 to 739
Evanius I 740 to 756
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John III -- 847 to 874
Ignatius II 877 to 882
Theodosius 887 to 896
Dionysius II 897 to 909
John IV 910 to 922
Basilius I 922 to 935
John V 936 to 953
Evanius II 954 to 957
Dionysius III 958 to 961
Abraham I -- 962 to 963
John VI 965 to 985
Athanasius IV -- 987 to 1003
John VII 1004 to 1031
Dionysius IV -- 1032 to 1042
Theodorus II 1042 to 1057
Athanasius V 1058 to 1063
John VIII 1064 to 1073
Basilius II 1074 to 1076
Abdoone 1076 to 1077
Dionysius V 1077 to 1078
Evanius III -- 1080 to 1082
Dionysius VI 1088 to 1090
Athanasius VI -- 1091 to 1129
John IX 1131 to 1139
Athanasius VII 1139 to 1166
Michael I (The Great) 1167 to 1200
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Dionysius VII -- 1253 to 1253
John XI 1253 to 1263
Ignatius IV 1264 to 1283
Philanus 1283 to 1292
Ignatius Beruhid 1293 to 1333
Ignatius Ismael 1333 to 1366
Ignatius Basilius III 1366 to 1382
Ignatius Abraham II 1382 to 1412
Ignatius Basilius IV 1412 to 1415
98. Ignatius Behanan I -- 1415 to 1455
99. Ignatius Kalojih 1455 to 1483
Ignatius John XII -- 1483 to 1492
Ignatius Noah 1492 to 1508
Ignatius Jesus I -- 1509 to 1510
Ignatius Jacob I 1510 to 1519
Ignatius David I 1519 to 1520
Ignatius Abdullah 1520 to 1557
Ignatius Neamathalak 1557 to 1576
Ignatius David II 1576 to 1591
Ignatius Philathus 1591 to 1597
Ignatius Abdullah II -- 1597 to 1598
Ignatius Cadhai 1598 to 1639
Ignatius Simeon -- 1640 to 1653
Ignatius Jesus II 1653 to 1661
Ignatius Amessiah 1661 to 1686
Ignatius Cabeed 1686 to 1687
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Ignatius Gervasius III 1746 to 1768
Ignatius Gervasius IV -- 1768 to 1781
Ignatius Mathias 1781 to 1809
Ignatius Behanan II 1810 to 1817
Ignatius Jonas 1817 to 1818
Ignatius Gervasius V 1818 to 1837
Ignatius Elias II 1839 to 1847
Ignatius Jacob II 1847 to 1871
Ignatius Peter III 1872 to 1894
At this point the succession is passed on to Mar Paul Athanasius, bishop of Kottayam in Malabar by Ignatius Peter III. It is from this branch of the Jacobite Orthodox Succession that his Excellency derives his Apostolic Succession.
Paul Athanasius 1877
Julius Alvarez -- July 29, 1889
Joseph Rene Vilatte June 5, 1892
Paolo Miraglia Guliotta May 6, 1900
Carmel Henry Carfora 1911
Earl Anglin James June 17, 1945
Grant Timothy Billet Dec. 25, 1950
Norman Richard Parr Oct. 23, 1979
Maurice Darryl McCormick July 14, 1991
Irving Young Sept. 21, 1997
Paul Victor Verhaeren and Wayne Moore Hay Nov. 21, 1998
Bruce D. Campbell April 19, 2003
Charles E. Klughart - June 2004
D. Michael Thomas November 19, 2005
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The Secondary Roman Catholic - Apostolic Succession Lines (Ecumenical Consecration, Apareciba, Brazil February 3, 1997):
March 12, 1566 Scipione Cardinal Rebiba consecrated Cardinal Santinio Who on, September 7, 1586 consecrated Cardinal Benninio who on, April 4, 1604 consecrated Cardinal San Vitale who on, May 7, 1621 consecrated Cardinal Ludovisi who on, June 12, 1622 consecrated Cardinal Gaetani who on,
October 7, 1630 consecrated Cardinal Carpegna who on, May 2, 1666 consecrated Cardinal Altieri who on, February 3, 1675 consecrated Cardinal Orsini (Pope as Benedict PP XIII 1724) who on,
July 16, 1723 consecrated Prospero Lambertini (Pope as Benedict PP XIV 1740) who on, March 19, 1723 consecrated Carol della Torre Rezzoni (Pope as Clement PP XIII 1758) who on,
April 26, 1767 consecrated Bernardinus Giraud (Cardinal 1771) who on, February 23, 1777 consecrated Alexander Matthaeus (Cardinal 1771) who on, September 12, 1819 consecrated Peter Francis Galetti (Cardinal 1803) who on, December 8, 1822 consecrated James Phillip Fransoni (Cardinal 1826) who on, June 8, 1851 consecrated Charles Sacconi (Cardinal 1861) who on, June 30, 1872 consecrated Eduard Howard (Cardinal 1877) who on, December 8, 1882 consecrated Mariano Rampolla Marchese del Tindaro (Cardinal 1887); who on,
October 26, 1890 consecrated Joaquin de Albuquerque Calvacanti (Cardinal 1905) who on,
June 17, 1928 consecrated Josef R. B. Beckertz (Archbishop 1941) who on,
May 22, 1953 consecrated Henri Louis D'Autel (Archbishop, Lyon 1966) who on,
November 10, 1964 consecrated Jean Balland (Archbishop, Lyon 1978) who on, March 19, 1969 consecrated Robert R. Johnson who on,
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February 3, 1997 consecrated Ronald D. Nowlan who on, November 21, 1998 consecrated Paul Victor Verhaeren and Wayne Moore Hay who on, April 19, 2003 consecrated Bruce D. Campbell who on, June, 2004 consecrated Charles E. Klughart who on, November 19, 2005 consecrated D. Michael Thomas who on, November 1, 2008 consecrated William Joseph Smith, OSB who on,
Secondary Succession -- See of Utrecht, Rene Vilatte, et.al.
Patriarch Ignatius Peter II was consecrated in 1872 and in 1868 consecrated Mar Julius (Alvarez), who on May 29, 1892 consecrated Joseph Rene Vilatte, who in 1915 consecrated Frederick E. Lloyd, who in 1923 consecrated Gregory Lines who in 1928 consecrated Justin A. Boyle who in 1940 consecrated Lowell Paul Wadle, who in 1957 consecrated Herman Adrian Spruit who in 1988 consecrated Paul Michael Clemens who on July 14, 1991 consecrated Joseph Philip Sousa who on Oct. 10, 1993 consecrated Willibrord Van Campent who on Nov. 14, 1993 consecrated Carl Thomas Swaringim who on Feb. 3, 1996 consecrated Maurice M. McCormick who on Sept. 21, 1997 consecrated Irwin Young, who on Nov. 21, 1998 consecrated Paul Victor Verhaeren and Wayne Moore Hay who on Apr 19, 2003 consecrated Bruce D. Campbell who in June 2004 consecrated Charles E. Klughart who on November 19, 2005 consecrated D. Michael Thomas who on November 1, 2008 consecrated Dom William Joseph Smith, OSB
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Roman Succession The Most Reverend D. Michael Thomas
Date and Year of Ordination Roman Succession
Unknown Fabio Biondi
1604 Pope Urban III (Maffeo Barbarini)
1621 Cosimo Cardinal De Torres
1627 Francesco Maria Cardinal Branaccio
1632 Miguel Juan Balaguer Camarasa
1635 Pope Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi)
1655 Antonio Cardinal Barberini
1668 Charles Maurice Letellier
1670 Jacques Benigne Bossuet
1693 Jacques de Goyon de Matignon
2/19/1719 Dominique Marie Varlet
10/18/1739 Petrus Johannes Meindaerts
1745 Johannes Van Stipout
2/7/1768 Walter Van Nieuwenhuisen 1778 Andrian Broekman
7/5/1797 Johannes Jacobus Van Rhijn 11/7/1805 Gijsbert De Jong 4/24/1814 Willibrord Van Os 4/14/1814 Johannes Van Santen 1853 Herman Heykamp
8/11/1873 Gaspard Johannes Rinkel 5/11/1892 Gerardus Gul 4/28/1908 Arnold Harris Mathew 6/29/1913 De Landes Berfhes
10/4/1916 Carmel Harris Carfora 6/17/1945 Earl Anglin James 12/25/1950 Grant Timothy Billet 10/23/1979 Norman R. Parr
7/14/1991 Maurice Darryl McCormick 9/21/1997 Irwin Young 11/21/1998 Paul Victor Verharen 4/19/2003 Bruce D. Campbell 6/2004 Charles E. Klughart 11/19/2005 David Michael Thomas 11/1/2008 William Joseph Meadors Smith, OSB
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Date and Year of Ordination Antiochian Succession
1872 Mar Ignatius Peter II
1877 Mar Paul Athanasius
7/29/1889 Julius Alvarez
5/29/1892 Joseph Rene Villate
5/6/1900 Paolo Miraglia Guilaotte
1911 Carmel Henry Carfora
6/17/1945 Earl Anglin James 12/25/1950 Grant Timothy Billet
10/23/1979 Norman R. Parr
7/14/1991 Maurice Darryl McCormick
9/21/1997 Irwin Young 11/21/1998 Paul Victor Verharen
4/19/2003 Bruce D. Campbell 2004 Charles E. Klughart
11/19/2005 David Michael Thomas
11/1/2008 William Joseph Meadors Smith, OSB
Date and Year of Ordination
Utrecht Succession
1872 Mar Ignatius Peter II
1889 Julius Alvarez 5/29/1892 Joseph Rene Vilatte
1915 Frederick E. Lloyd 1928 Justin A. Boyle 1940 Lowell Paul Wadle 1957 Adrian Spruit 1988 Paul Michael Clemens
7/14/1991 Joseph Phillip Sousa 10/10/1993 Willibrord Van Campent
11/14/1993 Carl Thomas Swaringim
2/3/1996 Maurice Darryl McCormick
9/21/1997 Irwin Young
11/21/1998 Paul Victor Verharen
4/19/2003 Bruce D. Campbell
2004 Charles E. Klughart
11/19/2005 David Michael Thomas
11/1/2008 William Joseph Meadors Smith, OSB
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TablesofApostolicSuccessionfor The Most Reverend William Joseph Meadors Smith, OSB
Through The Most Reverend Roger L. Bloomfield
Carlos Duarte Costa Succession
(a) On 15 August 1954 +Esteban Mayer Corradi-Sacrella, assisted by +Carlos Duarte Costa, consecrated sub conditione +Emile Federico Rodriguez y Durand (Fairfield), (b) who on 20 March 1977 consecrated sub conditione +Paul Christian Schultz, (c) who on 1 August 1992 consecrated sub conditione +Jorge Rodriguez Villa (d) who on 1 November 2000, consecrated Leland Lannoye (e) who on 16 May 2004, consecrated Roger Leroy Bloomfield (f) who on 1 November 2008, consecrated William Joseph Meadors Smith, OSB
Antiochian Syro Jacobite Succession
1. St Peter the Apostle, ca. 67 A.D. who consecrated
St. Evodius, the Bishop & Patriarch of Antioch, ca. 67 68 A.D who consecrated
St. Ignatius, Martyr, ca. 68 A.D who consecrated
St. Aaron, ca. 107 A.D. who consecrated
St. Cornelius, 137 A.D. who consecrated
St. Eados, 142 A.D., who consecrated
St. Theophilus, 157 A.D. who consecrated
St. Maximin, 171 A.D., who consecrated
St. Seraphim, 179 A.D who consecrated
St. Asclepiades, Martyr, 189 A.D. who consecrated
Philippe, 201 A.D. who consecrated
Zebinus, 219 A.D., who consecrated
Babylas, Martyr, 237 A.D. who consecrated
Fabius, 250 A.D. who consecrated
Demetrius, 251 A.D. who consecrated
Paul I, 259 A.D. who consecrated
Domnus I, 270 A.D. who consecrated
Timothy, 281 A.D., who consecrated
Cirilo, 291 A.D., who consecrated
Tyrantus, 296 A.D., who consecrated
Vitalius, 301 A.D., who consecrated
Philogone, 318 A.D. who consecrated
Eustachius, 323 A.D. who consecrated
Paulin, 338 A.D. who consecrated
Philabinus, 383 A.D. who consecrated
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Phosphorius, 416 A.D. who consecrated
Alexandre, 418 A.D. who consecrated
Jean I, 428 A.D. who consecrated
Theodotus, 431 A.D. who consecrated
Domnus II, 442 A.D. who consecrated
Maxime, 450 A.D. who consecrated
Accace, 454 A.D. who consecrated
Martyrius, 457 A.D. who consecrated
Peter II, 464 A.D. who consecrated
Philade, 500 A.D. who consecrated
Severius the Great, 509 A.D. who consecrated
Sergius, 544 A.D., who consecrated
Domnus III, 547 A.D., who consecrated
Anastase, 560 A.D., who consecrated
Gregory I, 564 A.D., who consecrated
Paul II, 567 A.D., who consecrated
Patra, 571 A.D., who consecrated
Domnus IV, 586 A.D., who consecrated
Julianus, 591 A.D., who consecrated
Athanasius I, the Chancellor, 595 A.D., who consecrated
John II, 636 A.D., who consecrated
Theodore I, 649 A.D., who consecrated
Severus, 668 A.D., who consecrated
Athanasius II, 684 A.D., who consecrated
Julian II, 687 A.D., who consecrated
Elie I, 709 A.D., who consecrated
Athanasius III, 724 A.D., who consecrated
Evanius I, 740 A.D., who consecrated
Servais I, 759 A.D., who consecrated
Joseph, 790 A.D., who consecrated
Ciriacus, 793 A.D., who consecrated
Dionysius I de Tal Mahre, 818 A.D., who wrote a history of Syrians, who consecrated
Jean III, 847 A.D., who consecrated
Ignace II, 877 A.D., who consecrated
Theodosius, 887 A.D., who consecrated
Dionysius II, 897 A.D., who consecrated
John IV, 910 A.D., who consecrated
Basile I, 922 A.D., who consecrated
John V, 936 A.D. who consecrated
Evanius II, 954 A.D. who consecrated
Dionysius III, 958 A.D. who consecrated
Abraham I, 962 A.D. who consecrated
John VI, 965 A.D., (who was imprisoned in Constantinople who consecrated
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after the Fall of Antioch in 969 A.D., by the Greek Emperor, Nicephore Phocas)
Athanasius IV, 987 A.D. who consecrated
Jean VII, 1004 A.D. who consecrated
Dionysius IV, 1032 A.D., who consecrated
Theodore II, 1042 A.D., who consecrated
Athanasius V, 1058 A.D., who consecrated
John VIII, 1064 A.D., who consecrated
Basilius II, 1074 A.D., who consecrated
Abdon, 1076 A.D., who consecrated
Dionysius V, 1077 A.D., who consecrated
Evanius III, 1080 A.D., who consecrated
Dionysius VI, 1088 A.D., who consecrated
Athanasius VI, 1091 A.D., who consecrated
John IX, 1131 A.D., who consecrated
Athanasius VII, 1139 A.D., who consecrated
Michael I, the Great, 1166 A.D., who consecrated
Athanasius VIII, 1200 A.D., who consecrated
Michael II, 1207 A.D., who consecrated
John X, 1208 A.D., who consecrated
Ignatius III, 1223 A.D., who consecrated
Dionysius VII, 1253 A.D., who consecrated
John XI, 1253 A.D., who consecrated
Ignatius IV, 1264 A.D. who consecrated
Philanus, 1283 A.D. who consecrated
Ignace Baruhid, 1293 A.D., who consecrated
Ignace Ismael, 1333 A.D., who consecrated
Ignace Basile III, 1366 A.D., who consecrated
Ignace Abraham II, 1382 A.D., who consecrated
Ignace Basile IV, 1412 A.D., who consecrated
Ignace Behanam I, 1415 A.D., who consecrated
Ignace Kalejhi, 1455 A.D., who consecrated
Ignace John XII, 1483 A.D., who consecrated
Ignace Noah, 1492 A.D., who consecrated
Ignace Jesus I, 1509 A.D., who consecrated
Ignace James I, 1510 A.D., who consecrated
Ignace David I, 1519 A.D., who consecrated
Ignace Abdullah I, 1520 A.D., who consecrated
Ignace Na Anathalak, 1557 A.D., who consecrated
Ignace David II, 1576 A.D., who consecrated
Ignace Thilathus, 1591 A.D., who consecrated
Ignace Abdullah II, 1597 A.D., who consecrated
Ignace Cadhai, 1598 A.D., who consecrated
Ignace Simeon, 1640 A.D., who consecrated
Ignace Jesus II, 1653 A.D., who consecrated
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Ignace Cabeed, 1686 A.D., who consecrated
Ignace Gervais II, 1687 A.D., who consecrated
Ignace Isaac, 1708 A.D., who consecrated
Ignace Siccarablak, 1722 A.D., who consecrated
Ignace Gervais III, 1746 A.D., who consecrated
Ignace Gervais IV, 1766 A.D., who consecrated
Ignace Mathias, 1781 A.D., who consecrated
Ignace Behanam II, 1810 A.D., who consecrated
Ignace Jonas, 1817 A.D., who consecrated
Ignace Gervais V, 1818 A.D., who consecrated
Ignace Elie II, 1839 A.D., who consecrated
Ignace James II, 1847 A.D., who consecrated
Ignace Peter III, Patriarch of Antioch and Easter See, who consecrated
Mar Paul Athanasius, 1877 A.D., Syriac Bshop of Kotayan, who consecrated
Julius I, Antoine Francois Xavier Alvarez, 19 July 1889, Bishop of Ceylon, who consecrated
Mar Timotheus, Joseph Rene Vilatte, 29 May 1892 who consecrated
Paul, Paolo Miraglia, 6 May 1900 who consecrated
Julio, Julien Houssaye, 4 December 1904 who consecrated
Francois, Louis Francois Giraud, 21 July 1911 who consecrated
Jean II, Jean Bricaud, 12 July 1913 who consecrated
Targelius, Victor Blanchard, 5 May 1918 who consecrated
Eon II, Roger Menard, 7 January 1945 who consecrated
Jean III, alias Robert, Bishop of Samaria, Robert Ambelain, 10 June 1946 who consecrated
Andreas, Andre Mauer, 26 January 1958, Second Patriarch of the Gnostic Apostolic Church who consecrated
Tau Jean, Roger Pommery, consecrated by Robert Ambelain on 26 May 1958, who consecrated
Tau Gillaume, Willer Vital Herne, 16 September 1967, who consecrated
Tau Charles I, Roger Victor Herard, 7 September 1970, Actual Former Primate of North America, who consecrated
Tau Johannes XIII, Jorge Rodriguez Villa, 6 January 1985, who consecrated
Leland J. Lannoye, 1 November 2000, who consecrated
Roger L. Bloomfield, 16 May 2004, who consecrated
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Additional Apostolic Succession of The Church of Antioch through Co Consecrating Patriarch Roberto C. Toca for Archbishop Jorge Rodriguez Villa to Archbishop Leland Lannoye to Archbishop Roger Leroy Bloomfield
Roman Catholic-Old Catholic: St. Peter Gul Mathew Wedgewood Hampton Spruit Toca Rodriguez Villa Lannoye Bloomfield Smith
Syrian Antiochene: St. Peter Alvarez Vilatte Lloyd Raleigh Spruit Toca Rodriguez Villa Lannoye Bloomfield Smith
Syrian Gallican: derived from a French branch of the same line as above and conveyed through Newman Palatine Holler Spruit Toca Rodriguez Villa Lannoye Bloomfield Smith
Armenian Uniate: Chorchurian Chechemian Crow Newman Maxey Wadle Spruit Toca Rodriguez Villa Lannoye Bloomfield Smith
Syro-Chaldean: St. Thomas - Shimon XVIII - Antony - Bartlett - Newman - MaxeyWadle Spruit Toca Rodriguez Villa Lannoye Bloomfield Smith
Chaldean Uniate: Brooks Newman Palatine Hoeller Spruit Toca Rodriguez Villa Lannoye Bloomfield Smith
Coptic Orthodox: St. Peter St. Mark Patriarchal See of Alexandria Newman Maxey Wadle Spruit Toca Rodriguez Villa Lannoye Bloomfield Smith
Order of Corporate Reunion: Lee Secombe Crow Newman Maxey Wadle Spruit - Toca - Rodriguez-Villa - Lannoye Bloomfield - Smith
Anglican: Moore White Hopkins Chechemian Crow Newman Maxey Wadle Spruit Toca Rodriguez Villa Lannoye Bloomfield Smith
Greek Melchite: Cyril VI Savoya Aneed Toca Rodriguez Villa Lannoye Bloomfield Smith. [Spruit was appointed Patriarch of the Byzantine Orthodox Catholic Church by Bishop Aneed, whom he succeeded in that position.]
Orthodox Patriarchate (Constantinople): Sergius Kleefish Aneed Wadle Spruit Toca Rodriguez Villa Lannoye Bloomfield Smith
Russian Orthodox: Nikon Makarius Ortinsky Kleefish Aneed Wadle Spruit Toca - Rodriguez-Villa - Lannoye Bloomfield - Smith
Polish National Catholic: Kaminsky Vilatte Wadle Spruit Toca Rodriguez Villa Lannoye Bloomfield Smith
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Albanian: Pedrovski Zeiger Roebke Spruit Toca Rodriguez Villa Lannoye Bloomfield Smith
Welsh Succession: Field - Laud - Richardson - Chechemian - Crow - Newman - MaxeyWadle Spruit Toca Rodriguez Villa Lannoye Bloomfield Smith
Non-Juring Bishops of England: Montaigne - Seabury - Richardson - Newman - Maxey Wadle Spruit Toca Rodriguez Villa Lannoye Bloomfield Smith
Irish Succession: Hampton, Archbishop of Armagh Howson Laud Maxey Wadle Spruit - Toca - Rodriguez-Villa - Lannoye - Bloomfield - Smith
Additional Apostolic Succession of the Philippine Independent Catholic Church through Consecrating Bishop Paul Christian Schultz for Archbishop Jorge Rodriguez-Villa Lannoye Bloomfield Smith
Updated 12.16.2008
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The Apostolic Succession of The Most Reverend William J M Smith, OSB The Abbot of the Abbey of the Incarnation and Titular Bishop of the Ancient See of Glastonbury Through
The Most Reverend Bryan Timothy Marabanian, Presiding Bishop of the American Apostolic Church
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CREST
Apostolic Lineage Of
The Most Reverend William Joseph Meadors Smith, OSB
Diaconal Ordination
September 21, 1981 Chicago, IL
Ordination to the Sacred Priesthood
September 21, 1983 Oneida, WI
Elected Abbot of the Abbey of the Incarnation December 2003 Milwaukee, WI
Abbatial Blessing
January 29, 2006
Fort Atkinson, WI
Episcopal Consecration November 1, 2008 Fort Atkinson, WI
Episcopal Consecration, sub conditione May 17, 2009
By the Most Reverend Bryan T. Marabanian
Presiding Bishop of the American Apostolic Church
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Official Record of Apostolic Succession of The Most Rev. William J. M. Smith, OSB, sub conditionally through the Most Reverend Bryan T. Marabanian, Presiding Bishop of The American Apostolic Church
Questions of Apostolic Succession arise normally in the desire by Roman Catholics, Anglicans, and Eastern Catholics to ensure that the Church they are attending is recognized as being “validly Catholic”. Bishop +Will was Ordained to the Diaconate (September 21, 1981) and the Sacred Priesthood on September 21, 1983 by Bishop William Louis Stevens (Memory Eternal) (The Episcopal Church, Diocese of Fond du Lac)
Through ordination and the laying on of hands, according to the Latin Rite of the Holy Roman Catholic Church, the Apostolic Succession of +William Smith, OSB can be traced back to St. Peter, St. Andrew, St. James the Lesser (Bishop of Jerusalem), St. Thaddeus, St. Jude Thomas, St. Augustine of Canterbury, St. Anselm and St. Gregorius.
On All Saints Day, November 1st, 2008, before the people of God and all the Saints, Bishop Michael Thomas, of the Community of Saint Michael, Archbishop Roger Bloomfield of the Church of South America, did elevate the Most Reverend William J. M. Smith, OSB, to the Sacred Office of Bishop. On May XX, 2009 Presiding Bishops Bryan Marabanian, did sub conditionally consecrate and ordain, the Most Reverend William J. M. Smith, OSB to the Sacred Office of Bishop and sub-conditionally consecrate +William Smith, OSB.
Bishop William Smith, OSB is currently and Abbot Bishop of the Abbey of the Incarnation, the Order of Saint Benedict within the American Apostolic Church.
The theology and liturgy of Bishop Will Smith, OSB primarily derives its richness from the historic and undivided Eastern Catholic churches. The beginnings of the Eastern Catholic faith can easily be traced back to the earliest Apostolic-Era, prior to the unfortunate development of institutionalized and divided churches so common in our era.
Even so, our Catholic identity, sacramental validity and Apostolic Succession is recognized by all Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Eastern Catholic, Anglican, and autocephalous Catholic churches.
Documented herein, we recognize His Grace +William J. M. Smith, OSB as being:
172nd in succession from St. Andrew the Apostle
163rd in succession from St. James the Apostle
151st in succession from St. Thaddeus the Disciple
131st in succession from St. John the Apostle
127th in succession from St. Thomas the Apostle
123rd in succession from St. Agai of the Seventy
121st in succession from St. Abris, cousin of the Blessed Virgin Mary
98th in succession from St. Augustine of Canterbury
73rd in succession from St. Anselm
69th in succession from St. Thomas Beckett
25th in succession from Dominicus Marie Varlet
18th in succession from the Orthodox Patriarch, St. Tikhon
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12th in succession from Joseph Rene Vilatte
11th in succession from Arnold Harris Mathew
10th in succession from Henry Carmel Carfora, OFM
7th in succession from St. Carlos Duarte Costa of Brazil
The Apostolic Succession from The National Catholic Church of Italy and the National Catholic Church of Brazil (Roman Catholic/Petrine Successions)
Chiesa Cattolica in Italia & Igreja Catolica no Brasil
Archbishop Carlos Duarte Costa, ordained a priest within The Church of Rome on 1 April 1911, was consecrated to be the Roman Diocesan Bishop of Botucatu, Brazil, on 8 December 1924. His public statements on the treatment of the poor in Brazil (by both the civil government and the Roman Church) resulted in his removal as Diocesan Bishop of Botucatu. Bishop Duarte Costa was subsequently named Titular Bishop of Maura by Pope Pius XII (Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, Vatican Secretary of State until 1939 under Pope Pius XI).
Archbishop Duarte Costa's criticisms of the Vatican, particularly the policy toward Nazi Germany, were not well received. He was formerly separated from the Church of Rome on 6 July 1945 after his strong and repeated public denunciations of the Vatican Secretariat of State for granting Vatican Passports to some very high ranking Nazis.
Some of the most notorious Nazi war criminals (e.g., Adolf Eichmann and Dr. Josef Mengele, the "Angel of Death,") escaped trial after World War II using Vatican Passports to flee to South America. The government of Brazil also came under the Bishop's criticism for collaborating with the Vatican on these passports.
Bishop Duarte Costa espoused what would be considered today as a rather liberal position on divorce, challenged mandatory celibacy for clergy, and publicly condemned the perceived abuses of papal power (especially the concept of Papal Infallibility, which he considered misguided and false). He founded the autonomous Igreja Catolica Apostolica Brasileira (ICAB) immediately upon his separation from The Church of Rome (6 July 1945) and remained Primate of this jurisdiction until his death in 1961.
Archbishop Luis Castillo Mendez was consecrated by Archbishop Duarte Costa on 3 May 1948. He succeed Abp. Duarte Costa as Primate and Patriarch of the National Catholic Apostolic Churches (Igreja Catolica Apostolica Nationales) in 1961.
In addition to the autonomous Igreja Catolica Apostolica Brasileira (ICAB), there are sister jurisdictions in thirteen other countries in the Western Hemisphere, Europe, the Pacific and in Asia, including: Argentina (ICAA), Chile, Venezuela, Cuba, Mexico, Spain, Germany, France, Portugal, Australia, the Philippines, Canada and the United States of America, with over 12 million members.
It may be of interest to consider Bishop Salomao Ferraz. He was a Roman priest who left that jurisdiction to join the new autocephalous Brazilian Church. He was consecrated to the office of bishop by Archbishop Carlos Duarte Costa for the Igreja Catolica Apostolica Brasileira (ICAB) in 1945. In 1958 he was reconciled with the Church of Rome (during the pontificate of Pope Pius XII). The Vatican appointed him Titular Bishop of Eleuterna on 12 May 1963.
Although married, Bishop Ferraz was later appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Rio de Janeiro by Pope John XXIII. Pope Paul VI appointed Bishop Ferraz to serve on a commission of the Second Vatican Council; he even addressed the Council Fathers.
This is mentioned only to point out that Bishop Ferraz was never re consecrated by the Roman Church, not even conditionally (sub conditione)! He was also allowed to keep his wife while
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serving and functioning as a Bishop of the Church of Rome! Later, he was buried with the full honors accorded a Bishop of the Church of Rome. The Vatican, by accepting Bishop Ferraz without any re consecration, affirmed de jure and de facto the sacramental validity of the Apostolic Succession received via Abp. Duarte Costa.
DUARTE COSTA SUCCESSION (THROUGH BISHOP SALOMAO FERRAZ)
Gian Pietro Cardinal Carafa (Who, in valid apostolic succession through St. Peter, would become Roman Catholic Pope Paul IV), in 1555, did consecrate; Scipione Rebiba
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1566 Giulio Antonio Santoro
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1586 Girolamo Bernerio, O.P.
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1604 Galeazzo Santivale
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1621 Lodovico Ludovisi
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1622 Luigi Caetani
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1630 Ulderico Carpena
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1666 Paluzzi Altieri degli Albertoni
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1675 Vincenzo Maria Orsini de Gravina, O.P.
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1724 Pope Benedictus XIV (Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini)
Who consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 19 March 1743: Carlo della Torre Rezzoni (Pope Clement XIII)
Who, assisted by Archbishop Scopio Borghese & Ignatius Reali consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 26 April 1767:
Cardinal Bernardinus Giraud
Who, assisted by Archbishop Marcus Antonius Conti & Bishop Iosefus Maria Carafa Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 23 February 1777:
Cardinal Alexander Matthaeus Who, assisted by Bishop Geraldus Macioti & Bishop Franciscus Albertini Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 12 September 1819:
Cardinal Petrus Franciscus Galeffi
Who, assisted by Abp. Ioanne Franciscus Falzacappa & Abp. Iosephus della Porta Rodiani Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 8 December 1822:
Cardinal Iacobus Philippus Fransoni
Who, assisted by Patriarch Joseph Valerga of Jerusalem & Bishop Rudesindus Salvado Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 8 June 1851:
Cardinal Carolus Sacconi
Who, assisted by Archbishop Salvator Nobili Vitelleschi and Archbishop Franciscus Xaverius Fridericus de Morode Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 30 June 1872:
Cardinal Eduard Howard
Who, assisted by Archbishop Alessandro Sanminiatelli Zabarella & Bishop Giulio Lenti Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 8 December 1882:
Cardinal Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro
Who consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 26 October 1890:
Cardinal Joaquin Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti Who consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 4 June 1911:
Archbishop Sebastiao Leme da Silveira Cintra Who, assisted by Dom Alberto Jose Goncalves & Dom Benedito Paulo Alves de Souza Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 8 December 1924:
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Dom Carlos Duarte Costa Patriarch, Igreja Catolica Apostolica Brasileira (1945)
Who consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate in 1945: ** Salomâo Ferraz
Who consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate in 1951: Manoel Ceia Laranjeira
Who consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate in 1969: Viktor Ivan Busà
Who consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate in 1972: Frederick Charles King
Who sub conditionally consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate in 1954: Emile Federico Rodriguez y Durand (Fairfield)
Who consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate in 1990: George Augustus Stallings (African American Catholic Congregation)
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1996 Carlos Enrique Harvin (African American Catholic Congregation)
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2004
Frederick “Francis-Maria” Salvato, O.S.F.
The Apostolic Society of Franciscan Communities
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2006 James M. Long
Presiding Archbishop, United States Independent Catholic Church
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2008
Bryan T. Marabanian
Presiding Bishop, American Apostolic Church
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate, sub conditione, in 2009 William J. M. Smith, OSB
Abbot Bishop of the Order of Saint Benedict of the American Apostolic Church
**NOTE: The Holy Orders of Bishop Salomâo Ferraz have been recognized as valid by the Roman Catholic Pontificate. In 1958, Pope John XXIII received Bishop Ferraz back into the Roman Catholic Church, despite his being married, and did so without reconsecration. In 1963, Bishop Ferraz was granted the Titular See of Eleuterna by Pope Paul VI. Bishop Ferraz participated actively in the entire Second Vatican Council.
DUARTE COSTA SUCCESSION II
Gian Pietro Cardinal Carafa
(Who, in valid apostolic succession through St. Peter, would become Roman Catholic Pope Paul IV), in 1555, did consecrate; Scipione Rebiba
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1566 Giulio Antonio Santoro
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1586 Girolamo Bernerio, O.P.
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1604 Galeazzo Santivale
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1621 Lodovico Ludovisi
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1622 Luigi Caetani
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1630 Ulderico Carpena
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1666 Paluzzi Altieri degli Albertoni Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1675 Vincenzo Maria Orsini de Gravina, O.P.
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1724 Pope Benedictus XIV (Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini)
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Who consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 19 March 1743: Carlo della Torre Rezzoni (Pope Clement XIII)
Who, assisted by Archbishop Scopio Borghese & Ignatius Reali consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 26 April 1767:
Cardinal Bernardinus Giraud
Who, assisted by Archbishop Marcus Antonius Conti & Bishop Iosefus Maria Carafa Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 23 February 1777:
Cardinal Alexander Matthaeus
Who, assisted by Bishop Geraldus Macioti & Bishop Franciscus Albertini Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 12 September 1819:
Cardinal Petrus Franciscus Galeffi
Who, assisted by Abp. Ioanne Franciscus Falzacappa & Abp. Iosephus della Porta Rodiani Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 8 December 1822:
Cardinal Iacobus Philippus Fransoni
Who, assisted by Patriarch Joseph Valerga of Jerusalem & Bishop Rudesindus Salvado Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 8 June 1851:
Cardinal Carolus Sacconi
Who, assisted by Archbishop Salvator Nobili Vitelleschi and Archbishop Franciscus Xaverius Fridericus de Morode Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 30 June 1872:
Cardinal Eduard Howard
Who, assisted by Archbishop Alessandro Sanminiatelli Zabarella & Bishop Giulio Lenti Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 8 December 1882:
Cardinal Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro
Who consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 26 October 1890:
Cardinal Joaquin Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti
Who consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 4 June 1911:
Archbishop Sebastiao Leme da Silveira Cintra
Who, assisted by Dom Alberto Jose Goncalves & Dom Benedito Paulo Alves de Souza Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 8 December 1924:
Dom Carlos Duarte Costa Patriarch, Igreja Catolica Apostolica Brasileira (1945)
Who consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 3 May 1948: Dom Luis Fernando Castillo Mendez Patriarch, Igreja Catolica Apostolica Brasileira (1961)
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1949
Esteban Meyer Corradi Scarella (Catholic Apostolic Church in North America)
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1954 Emile Federico Rodriguez y Durand (Fairfield) (Iglesia Ortodoxa Católica Apostólica Méxicana)
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1990
George Augustus Stallings (African American Catholic Congregation)
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1996 Carlos Enrique Harvin (African American Catholic Congregation)
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2004 Frederick “Francis-Maria” Salvato, O.S.F.
The Apostolic Society of Franciscan Communities Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2006
James M. Long
Presiding Archbishop, United States Independent Catholic Church
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2008 Bryan T. Marabanian
Presiding Bishop, American Apostolic Church Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate, sub conditione, in 2009 William J. M. Smith, OSB
Abbot Bishop of the Order of Saint Benedict of American Apostolic Church
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DUARTE COSTA
SUCCESSION III
Gian Pietro Cardinal Carafa
(Who, in valid apostolic succession through St. Peter, would become Roman Catholic Pope Paul IV), in 1555, did consecrate; Scipione Rebiba
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1566 Giulio Antonio Santoro
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1586 Girolamo Bernerio, O.P.
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1604 Galeazzo Santivale
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1621 Lodovico Ludovisi
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1622 Luigi Caetani
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1630 Ulderico Carpena
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1666 Paluzzi Altieri degli Albertoni
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1675 Vincenzo Maria Orsini de Gravina, O.P.
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1724
Pope Benedictus XIV (Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini)
Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 19 March 1743:
Carlo della Torre Rezzoni (Pope Clement XIII) assisted by Archbishop Scopio Borghese & Ignatius Reali Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 26 April 1767:
Cardinal Bernardinus Giraud assisted by Archbishop Marcus Antonius Conti & Bishop Iosefus Maria Carafa Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 23 February 1777:
Cardinal Alexander Matthaeus assisted by Bishop Geraldus Macioti & Bishop Franciscus Albertini Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 12 September 1819:
Cardinal Petrus Franciscus Galeffi assisted by
Abp. Ioanne Franciscus Falzacappa & Abp. Iosephus della Porta Rodiani Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 8 December 1822:
Cardinal Iacobus Philippus Fransoni assisted by Patriarch Joseph Valerga of Jerusalem & Bishop Rudesindus Salvado Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 8 June 1851:
Cardinal Carolus Sacconi assisted by Archbishop Salvator Nobili Vitelleschi and Archbishop Franciscus Xaverius Fridericus de Morode Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 30 June 1872:
Cardinal Eduard Howard assisted by Archbishop Alessandro Sanminiatelli Zabarella & Bishop Giulio Lenti Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 8 December 1882:
Cardinal Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 26 October 1890:
Cardinal Joaquin Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 4 June 1911:
Archbishop Sebastiao Leme da Silveira Cintra assisted by Dom Alberto Jose Goncalves & Dom Benedito Paulo Alves de Souza Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 8 December 1924: Dom Carlos Duarte Costa Patriarch, Igreja Catolica Apostolica Brasileira (1945)
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Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 3 May 1948: Dom Luis Fernando Castillo Mendez Patriarch, Igreja Catolica Apostolica Brasileira (1961) assisted by Dom Melquiades Rosa Garcia & Dom Bartolomeus Sebastiao Vilela Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 30 January 1985: Dom Forest Ernest Barber
Holy Orthodox Church in the Philippines (Mission of the Igreja Catolica Apostolica Brasileira) assisted by Abp. Emile Federico Rodriguez y Fairfield & Abp. Paul G. W. Schultz Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 14 June 1987:
Dom Nils Bertil Alexander Persson
Archbishop of Scandinavia, Igreja Catolica Apostolica Brasileira assisted by Abp. Emile Federico Rodriguez y Fairfield, Abp. Paul G. W. Schultz, Bishop Christopher Rogers, Bishop Carroll Lowery, Exarch Howard D. van Orden, Archbishop Arthur Garrow, Bishop Petros (Eric Veloso), Bishop Michael Marshal
Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 5 August 1989: Dom Karl Julius Barwin
Primate, The Evangelical Catholic Church. Bishop Karl J. Barwin did consecrated to the episcopate on May 12, 1990
George Augustus Stallings, Jr. Patriarch and Archbishop of the African American Catholic Congregation, who consecrated
Carlos Enrique Harvin Bishop in 1996 for the African American Catholic Congregation. Bishop Harvin consecrated on January 18, 2004
Frederick “Francis Maria” Salvato, O.S.F.
The Apostolic Society of Franciscan Communities
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2006
James M. Long
Presiding Archbishop, United States Independent Catholic Church
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2008
Bryan T. Marabanian
Presiding Bishop, American Apostolic Church
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate, sub conditione, in 2009
William J. M. Smith, OSB
Abbot Bishop of the Order of Saint Benedict of American Apostolic Church
The Apostolic Succession from The Mariavite Old Catholic Church
The Mariavite Old Catholic Church separated from the Roman Communion in 1906, and elected as their bishop Minister General Jean Marie Michel Kowaleski, a priest ordained in the Roman Catholic Church. The succession of the Mariavite Old Catholic Church comes through Cardinal Antonio Barberini, nephew of Pope Urban VII, and through the Ultrajectine (Old Catholic Church), of which Archbishop Gerardus Gul became the seventeenth Archbishop of Utrecht, in 1892.
SUCCESSION I
Bishop Johann Michael Kowalski was consecrated in Utrecht, Holland, on 5 October 1909 by Archbishop Gerard Gul of Utrecht, Archbishop Arnold Harris Mathew (Archbishop of London, Old Catholic Church of England), Bishop Johannes Jacobus van Thiel and Bishop Nicolas Bartholomaeus Petrus Spit (Old Catholic Church of Holland), and Bishop Joseph Demmel (Bishop of Bonn, Old Catholic Church of Germany), as Bishop for the Polish Catholic Church of the Mariavites. Bishop Kowalski consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Marc Marie (Paul Fatome) on 4 September 1938 as Regionary Bishop for France. Bishop Marc Marie consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Paulus (Helmut Norbert Maas) on 6 October 1949 as Bishop of the Mariavite Catholic Church in Germany (Katholische Kirche der Mariaviten in Deutschland). Bishop Paulus consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Efrem Maria Mauro Fusi on 24 May 1953 as Bishop for The Mariavite Catholic Church in Italy
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(Chiesa Cattolica Mariavita). Bishop Fusi consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate: Bishop Clement Alfio Sgroi Marchese on 26 May 1954 as Bishop of Sicily for The Mariavite Catholic Church in Italy. Bishop Marchese consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate: Mar Georgius (Hugh George de Willmott Newman) on 18 September 1954 as Patriarch of Glastonbury (and the 6th British Orthodox Patriarch). Mar Georgius consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Charles Dennis Boltwood on 6 July 1956 as Titular Bishop of Thorney and Auxiliary Bishop for London north of the Thames. Bishop Boltwood consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate: Archbishop Emmett Neil Enochs on 31 August 1958 at Los Angeles, California, as Archbishop of California, Primate of the United States for the Free Protestant Episcopal Church and Titular Missionary Bishop in The Catholic Apostolic Church, assisted by Rev'd Frederick C. King, Ph.D., Rev'd Karla King, and Rev'd Marshall Ho'o. Archbishop Enochs consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Frederick Charles King on 19 May 1963 for the Old Roman Catholic Church. Bishop King consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Paul Christian G. W. Schultz on 18 May 1975, assisted by Bishop George A. Lyman (American Orthodox Catholic Church). Bishop Schultz consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Karl Julius Barwin
Primate, the Evangelical Catholic Church. Bishop Karl J. Barwin did consecrated to the episcopate on May 12, 1990
George Augustus Stallings, Jr. Patriarch and Archbishop of the African American Catholic Congregation, who consecrated
Carlos Enrique Harvin Bishop in 1996 for the African American Catholic Congregation. Bishop Harvin consecrated on January 18, 2004
Frederick “Francis-Maria” Salvato, O.S.F.
The Apostolic Society of Franciscan Communities
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2006
James M. Long
Presiding Archbishop, United States Independent Catholic Church
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2008
Bryan T. Marabanian
Presiding Bishop, American Apostolic Church
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2009, sub conditione
William J. M. Smith, OSB
Abbot Bishop of the Order of Saint Benedict of American Apostolic Church
SUCCESSION II
Archbishop Gerardus Gul, consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1909: Jean Marie Michel Kowaleski in Utrecht, Holland, on 5 October 1909 as Bishop for the Polish Catholic Church of the Mariavites. Bishop Kowalski consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate, in 1939: Marco Marie Paul Fatome, who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate: Helmut Norbert Mass, who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate: Henryk Marciniak, who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate: Jakob Rokitta, who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate, sub conditione: Salomâo Ferraz
Who consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate in 1951: Manoel Ceia Laranjeira
Who consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate: Viktor Ivan Busà Who consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate:
Frederick Charles King
Who sub conditionally consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate: Emile Federico Rodriguez y Durand (Fairfield)
Who consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate in 1990: George Augustus Stallings
(African American Catholic Congregation)
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1996
Carlos Enrique Harvin (African American Catholic Congregation)
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2004
Frederick “Francis Maria” Salvato, O.S.F.
The Apostolic Society of Franciscan Communities Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2006 James M. Long
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Presiding Archbishop, United States Independent Catholic Church
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2008 Bryan T. Marabanian
Presiding Bishop, American Apostolic Church
Who sub conditionally consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate, sub conditione, in 2009
William J. M. Smith, OSB
Abbot Bishop of the Order of Saint Benedict of American Apostolic Church
The Apostolic Succession from The Old Roman Catholic Church of Utrecht
The Diocese of Utrecht, Holland, was founded in AD 722 by St. Willibrord. The right of the Chapter of Utrecht to elect the bishop of The Diocese was recognized in AD 1145. In AD 1520 the Bishop of Utrecht was given the right to adjudicate matters in his diocese without appeal or recourse to Rome. In AD 1559, when the war with France had ended, Philip II of Spain, the hereditary ruler of the Netherlands, persuaded the Pope to elevate The See of Utrecht to an archbishopric, with five new dioceses under it (Haarlem, Deventer, Groningen, Leeuwarden and Middelburg).
Having survived the Calvinist Reformation in Holland as an underground Church, the Dutch Roman Catholic faithful were suddenly subjected to the political ambitions and maneuverings of the Jesuits, who fought to have Rome, declare The See of Utrecht a missionary district under their control. At first failing in this battle to gain control of The Church in Holland, the Jesuits adopted a new tactic in AD 1691 by accusing + Peter Codde, the Archbishop of Utrecht, of espousing the so called heresy of Jansenism. Although the Archbishop was eventually proved innocent of heresy, Pope Innocent XII tried to appease the Jesuits by suspending and deposing him in AD 1705. No mention was made of any reason for the deposition. Even a Papal canonist, Hyacinth de Archangelis, issued a formal opinion that a Vicar Apostolic with the rights of an Ordinary (as +Codde undoubtedly was) could not be arbitrarily deposed. Two Dutch Catholic Chapters (Utrecht and Haarlem) naturally decided not to recognize this irregular, if not illegal, act. The battle was over local autonomy in a collegial Church versus Papal supremacy. When the Papacy appointed +Theodore de Cock as Pro Vicar Apostolic of The United Provinces, in the place of Archbishop Peter Codde (deposed), the Chapters of Utrecht and Haarlem further decided not to recognize his authority on the ground that The Patriarch of Rome had no canonical authority to deprive even a Vicar Apostolic, much less an Archbishop, without trial and condemnation. At the same time the Calvinist government decided that it would prefer a Catholic Church controlled by Dutch Catholics to a Catholic Church controlled by Rome. The government, therefore, issued a decree forbidding + de Cock to exercise any jurisdiction over Roman Catholics in Holland. Later, after accusing the Dutch government of being bribed by the secular clergy loyal to The Archbishop (+Codde), +de Cock was banished from Holland and fled to Rome.
Rome countered by placing the Dutch Church under an Inhibition, prohibiting all Bishops from performing any episcopal acts in Holland. At this point the battle between Utrecht and Rome was not doctrinal, but the results of Jesuit intrigue and their desire to firmly establish the Papacy as an absolute monarchy.
Had Archbishop Codde continued to exercise his authority as The Archbishop of Utrecht, while appealing his uncanonical suspension as Vicar-Apostolic (as Vicar-Apostolic he had diocesan jurisdiction wherever there was no Bishop or Chapter; metropolitan jurisdiction in the other dioceses), the course of Church history may well have seen the defeat of the Jesuit sponsored Ultramontane movement. Unfortunately, +Codde not only protested his suspension but also retired from the exercise of his office. His jurisdiction thus reverted to the Chapters and his people were left without episcopal protection and governance. It was the position of the Chapter of Utrecht that:
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Both the Province and Diocese of Utrecht, with all their ancient and canonical rights and privileges, still existed. (The Chapter of Utrecht was formally recognized on many occasions by Papal Nuncios even after this date.)
The Vicariate instituted by Archbishop Philip Rovenius on 9 June 1633 was the canonical reconstitution of the ancient Chapter of Utrecht and possessed all the rights of the Chapter, including the right to elect the Archbishop of Utrecht. (All nominations made hereafter by this Chapter were, in fact, accepted by Rome, including that of Archbishop Codde.)
Later archbishops, from + Vosmeer to + Codde, were not only Vicars Apostolic of the Roman See, but also Archbishops of Utrecht, the true canonical successors of St. Willibrord.
On 25 May 1717, five doctors of the theological faculty of the University of Louvain publicly sided with the Archepiscopal See of Utrecht by stating that the Church of Utrecht had not been reduced to the status of a mere mission, that the Chapter of Utrecht had survived, and that the Vicariate established by +Rovenius was the ancient Chapter of Utrecht. Later, 102 doctors of theology at the University of Paris, together with the whole law faculty, publicly agreed with the doctors of Louvain. As a result of the support of the theology faculties of two French universities, three French Bishops (Soanen of Senez, Lorraine of Bayeux, and Caumartin of Blois) declared that they were ready to ordain priests for the Chapter of Utrecht, and actually did so.
Upon the death, in AD 1710, of + Peter Codde, the deposed Archbishop of Utrecht, the Cathedral Chapter (exercising its historically recognized right) elected a successor. No Bishop, however, could be found who would ignore the Pope's Inhibition by consecrating the Archbishop-elect. The Church of Holland continued to send Her candidates for the priesthood out of the country for ordination by foreign Bishops; Her children, without a diocesan Ordinary, were left unconfirmed. At this point the Jesuits and Rome sought and anxiously anticipated the total capitulation of the autocephalous Dutch Church. A turning point in the Dutch Church's struggle with Rome came in AD 1719 when + Dominique Maria Varlet, former missionary priest in The Louisiana Territory in North America, stopped in Amsterdam for a few days on his way to his new post in Persia. A local Dutch priest, Father Jacob Krys, begged the new Bishop to confirm 604 orphans and other poor children as an act of charity, which he did. He then continued his journey to Persia, arriving at his residence at Schamake (now Shemakh near Baku in the Republic of Azerbaijan) on 9 October 1719. On 26 March 1720, the Bishop of Babylon was presented with a formal Notice of Suspension from his office, sent by the Bishop of Ispahan by order of the Congregation de Propaganda Fide, and delivered by a Jesuit priest (Fr. Bachou) because of the confirmations in Amsterdam. Like the late Archbishop Codde, Bishop Varlet elected not to remain in office while fighting the Papal action. After careful consideration and prayer, the good Bishop immediately left Persia and returned to Amsterdam, where he settled permanently.
The Chapter of Utrecht had meanwhile repeatedly attempted to get the Pope to allow the election and consecration of an archbishop; Pope Innocent XIII ignored their petitions. The Chapter next turned to the leading canon lawyers of the day. They were told that the Chapter had the canonical right to elect their archbishop and get him consecrated without the consent of the Pope (recent precedents in both France and Portugal supported this position). Nineteen doctors of the theological faculty of the Sorbonne (University of Paris), and others from Nantes, Rheims, Padua, and Louvain, gave their agreement to this position, as well as assuring the Chapter that in the case of necessity one bishop alone might preside at the consecration.
With the approval of the government, the Chapter met at The Hague on 27 April 1723 and, after a Mass of The Holy Spirit, elected, with all the canonical forms, Cornelius Steenoven to be Archbishop of Utrecht. Although Fr. Steenoven was elected as the candidate likely to be
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the least objectionable to Rome, the Pope refused to answer the Chapter's request to permit his consecration. The Chapter finally begged the Bishop of Babylon to consecrate their candidate. He consented. The government also consented to this the first consecration of an Archbishop of Utrecht since the Reformation. Thus at 6:00am on Pentecost XX, 15 October 1724, Cornelius van Steenoven was consecrated in the presence of the whole Chapter by the Bishop of Babylon in Amsterdam to be the seventh Archbishop of Utrecht and canonical successor of St. Willibrord.
The Bishop of Babylon was called upon by The Chapter to consecrate four archbishops for the See of Utrecht before his death on 14 May 1742 at The Hague.
The clergy ordained in the Ultrajectine (Old Catholic) Succession are recognised as being in full communion with the Anglican/Episcopal Church and with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, under the Bonn Accord. Such clergy may serve as Canon 9 supply clergy in the Episcopal Church with permission from the local ordinary.
OLD CATHOLIC ULTRAJECTINE SUCCESSION I through
Archbishop William Montgomery Brown
Archbishop Gerard Gul (Old Catholic Church of Utrecht), assisted by Bishop Johannes Jacobus van Thiel and Bishop Nicholas Bartholomaeus Petrus Spit (both with The Old Catholic Church of Utrecht) and Bishop Josef Demmel (Old Catholic Church in Germany), consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Archbishop-Primate Arnold Harris Mathew on 28 April 1908 as Archbishop of London and Primate of the Old Catholic Church in England. Archbishop Mathew consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Rudolf Franziskus Eduard de Landas Berghes et de Rache on 29 June 1913 as Missionary Bishop for Scotland. In 1916 Prince de Landas Berghes became Archbishop Primate of The National Catholic Church in North America. Archbishop de Landas Berghes et de Rache consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop William Henry Francis Brothers on 3 October 1916 for The Old Roman Catholic Church. In 1917 Bishop Brothers became Archbishop and Metropolitan of The Old Catholic Church in America. Archbishop Brothers consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop William Montgomery Brown on 24 June 1925, assisted by Bishop Jozef Zielonka (Polish Old Catholic Church of America) and Bishop Albert Jehan (Bishop of Chicago, the Old Catholic Church in America). Bishop Brown consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Wallace David de Ortega Maxey on 2 January 1927, assisted by Bishop Jozef Zielonka (Polish Old Catholic Church of America), Bishop Albert Jehan (Bishop of Chicago, the Old Catholic Church in America), and Archbishop William Henry Francis Brothers (Primate, the Old Catholic Church in America). Archbishop de Ortega Maxey consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Archbishop Nils Bertil Alexander Persson
Archbishop of Scandinavia, Igreja Catolica Apostolica Brasileira assisted by Abp. Emile Federico Rodriguez y Fairfield, Abp. Paul G. W. Schultz, Bishop Christopher Rogers, Bishop Carroll Lowery, Exarch Howard D. van Orden, Archbishop Arthur Garrow, Bishop Petros (Eric Veloso), Bishop Michael Marshal Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 5 August 1989: Bishop Karl Julius Barwin
Primate, The Evangelical Catholic Church. Bishop Karl J. Barwin did consecrated to the episcopate on May 12, 1990 George Augustus Stallings, Jr. Patriarch and Archbishop of the African American Catholic Congregation, who consecrated
Carlos Enrique Harvin Bishop in 1996 for the African American Catholic Congregation. Bishop Harvin consecrated on January 18, 2004
Frederick “Francis-Maria” Salvato, O.S.F.
The Apostolic Society of Franciscan Communities
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2006
James M. Long
Presiding Archbishop, United States Independent Catholic Church Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2008
Bryan T. Marabanian
Presiding Bishop, American Apostolic Church
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate, sub conditione, in 2009 William J. M. Smith, OSB
Abbot Bishop of the Order of Saint Benedict of American Apostolic Church
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ULTRAJECTINE SUCCESSION II
Cardinal Antonio Barberini, nephew of Pope Urban VIII, was consecrated in AD 1655 (by the order of Pope Alexander VII) by Monsignore Scannarola (Bishop of Sidonia), assisted by Monsignore Botini (Domestic Prelate of the Pope), and Monsignore Laurenzio Gavotti (Bishop of Ventimiglia), as Bishop of Frascati. In AD 1657 Bishop Barberini became Archbishop of Rheims; in AD 1661 he became Bishop of Palestrina. Cardinal Barberini consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1668
Bishop Charles Maurice Le Tellier, Duke, son of the Grand Chancellor of France, as Co Adjutor Bishop.
Archbishop Le Tellier consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1670
Bishop James Benigne Bossuet
Bishop Bossuet consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1673
Bishop James Coydon de Matignon
Bishop de Matignon, by order of Pope Clement XI, consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1719
Bishop Dominique Maria Varlet as Bishop of Ascalon in partibus and Co Adjutor to the Bishop of Babylon, Persia, on 12 February 1719 in The Chapel attached to the House of the Fathers of Foreign Missions at Paris, assisted by the Co Adjutor Bishop of Quebec and the Bishop of Claremont. Bishop Varlet consecrated four Archbishops of Utrecht; three died without consecrating successors.
The continued existence of the autocephalous Old Roman Catholic Church of Holland was assured when Bishop Varlet consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1739:
Archbishop Petrus Johannes Meindaerts as the tenth Archbishop of Utrecht.
Archbishop Meindaerts consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Johannes van Stiphout as the fourth Bishop of Haarlem on 11 July 1745.
Bishop Stiphout consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Archbishop Walter Michael van Nieuwenhuisen as the eleventh Archbishop of Utrecht on Sexagesima Sunday, 7 February 1768.
Archbishop Nieuwenhuisen consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Adrian Johannes Broekman, President of the Amersfoort Seminary, on Pentecost II Sunday, 21 June 1778, as Bishop of Haarlem.
Bishop Broekman consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Archbishop Johannes Jacobus van Rhijn as the twelfth Archbishop of Utrecht on 5 July 1797.
Archbishop van Rhijn consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Gisbertus de Jong as the fifth Bishop of Deventer on 7 November 1805.
Bishop de Jong consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Archbishop Willibrord van Os as the thirteenth Archbishop of Utrecht on 24 April 1814. Archbishop van Os consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Johannes Bon as the seventh Bishop of Haarlem on 25 April 1819. He was the first Bishop of the autocephalous Dutch succession not to be excommunicated by Rome.
Bishop Bon consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Archbishop Johannes van Santen, as fourteenth Archbishop of Utrecht on the Sunday within the Octave of St. Willibrord, 13 November 1825, in The Cathedral of St. Gertrude in Utrecht.
Archbishop van Santen consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Hermann Heykamp as seventh Bishop of Deventer on 17 July 1853.
Bishop Heykamp consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Gaspardus Johannes Rinkel as the tenth Bishop of Haarlem and Bishop Josef Hubert Reinkens as the first Bishop of The Old Catholic Church in Germany (Bonn) on 11 August 1873 in the Church of St. Lawrence and St. Mary Magdalene at Rotterdam. This is the first time that the formal proofs of election were read during the Mass of Consecration instead of the Papal Mandate; it is also the first time that the new Bishops did not notify Rome of their consecrations. Bishop Rinkel consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Archbishop Gerardus Gul, parish priest of Hilversum, as the seventeenth
Archbishop Gul consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Archbishop of Utrecht, on 11 May 1892.
Arnold Harris Matthew on April 28, 1908 to serve as the First Old Catholic Bishop of Britain.
Who consecrated and raised to The Sacred Episcopate:
Prince Rudolph Francis de Landas-Berghes
Who consecrated and raised to The Sacred Episcopate in 1916:
Carmel Henry Carfora, OFM
Who consecrated and raised to The Sacred Episcopate in 1921
Samuel Durlin Benedict
Who consecrated and raised to The Sacred Episcopate in 1925
George David Basil Quinn
Who consecrated and raised to The Sacred Episcopate in 1948
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Robert Boris Varlette Marshall
Who consecrated and raised to The Sacred Episcopate in 1957 Gregory David Michael Voris
Who consecrated and raised to The Sacred Episcopate in 1980 Richard M. Bridges
Who consecrated and raised to The Sacred Episcopate in 1990 George Augustus Stallings (African American Catholic Congregation)
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1996 Carlos Enrique Harvin (African American Catholic Congregation)
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2004 Frederick “Francis Maria” Salvato, O.S.F.
The Apostolic Society of Franciscan Communities
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2006
James M. Long
Presiding Archbishop, United States Independent Catholic Church
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2008
Bryan T. Marabanian
Presiding Bishop, American Apostolic Church
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate, sub conditione, in 2009 William J. M. Smith, OSB
Abbot Bishop of the Order of Saint Benedict of American Apostolic Church
ULTRAJECTINE SUCCESSION III
Through Archbishop Carmel Henry Carfora
Archbishop Rudolf Franziskus Eduard de Landas Berghes et de Rache, consecrated on 29 June 1913 by Archbishop Primate Arnold Harris Mathew (Old Catholic Church in England) as Missionary Bishop for Scotland, consecrated s.c. to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Carmel Henry Carfora in the Chapel of St. Dunstan's Abbey in Waukegan, Illinois, assisted by Bishop William Henry Francis Brothers, on 4 October 1916 as Archbishop of Canada. Bishop Carfora consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Edwin Wallace Hunter, on 11 February 1924, assisted by Bishop Franciszek Viktor Maximillian Kanski (American Catholic Church) as Regionary Bishop for the U.S.A. and Canada for The North American Old Roman Catholic Church. Bishop Hunter consecrated s.c. to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Wallace David de Ortega Maxey on 24 May 1929, assisted by Bishop Samuel Gregory Lines (Apostolic Christian Church) and Bishop Francis John Barwell Walker (American Catholic Church). Archbishop de Ortega Maxey consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Archbishop Nils Bertil Alexander Persson as Primate of The Apostolic Episcopal Church on 7 November 1986, assisted by Archbishop Robert Ronald Ramm (Apostolic Episcopal Catholic Church). Archbishop Persson also serves as the Missionary General for Scandinavia and All Europe for both the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (Philippine Independent Catholic Church, confirmed 15 June 1988; this is a member jurisdiction of The Anglican Communion) and the Igreja Católica Apostólica Brasiliera (Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church, confirmed 14 June 1987). Archbishop Persson consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate: Bishop Karl J. Barwin as Primate of The Evangelical Catholic Church on 5 August 1989, assisted by Archbishop Emile Federico Rodrigues y Fairfield (Iglesia Ortodoxa Catolica Apostolica Mexicana), Bishop Carroll T. Lowery (The Apostolic Episcopal Church), Archbishop Arthur J. Garrow (The Archiepiscopate Ordinariate of Healing Arts Missionaries & Chaplains in America) and Bishop Howard D. van Orden (Order of St. Jude; Archbishop of Albuquerque and Dependencies, The Philippine Independent Catholic Church in The Americas), each assisting, coöperating and co consecrating by laying on hands and uttering all the words of consecration. Assisting in this consecration as Co Consecrators were Archbishop Paul Christian Gerald W. Schultz (Archbishop of Los Angeles and Administrator of The Philippine Independent Catholic Church in The Americas), Bishop Petros (Eric Tan Ong Veloso, Orthodox Catholic Church in The Philippines), Bishop Christopher J. Rogers (Suffragan Bishop of Los Angeles, The Philippine Independent Catholic Church in The Americas), and Bishop Marciel (Michael Marshall, Orthodox Old Catholic Church). Bishop Karl J. Barwin did consecrated to the episcopate on May 12, 1990 George Augustus Stallings, Jr. Patriarch and Archbishop of the African American Catholic Congregation, who consecrated Carlos Enrique Harvin Bishop in 1996 for the African American Catholic Congregation. Bishop Harvin, Who consecrated on January 18, 2004 Frederick “Francis Maria” Salvato, O.S.F.
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The Apostolic Society of Franciscan Communities
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2006
James M. Long
Presiding Archbishop, United States Independent Catholic Church
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2008
Bryan T. Marabanian
Presiding Bishop, American Apostolic Church
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate, sub conditione, in 2009
William J. M. Smith, OSB
Abbot Bishop of the Order of Saint Benedict of American Apostolic Church
The Apostolic Succession from The Church of England & the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America
The Church of England was planted in North America in 1607, at the foundation of the Jamestown Colony. It achieved quasi establishment in Maryland and Virginia, and was "tolerated" in the other colonies, with the exception of New England, where the few Anglicans living there were bitterly persecuted and harassed. The foundation for control of the Church by the laity (congregational form of polity) was firmly laid at this time. The appointment of clergy to serve parishes was almost totally in the hands of the laity who refused to allow priests a title to the benefits of their office which appointment/installation would allow, but preferred to pay Chaplains whom they could "fire" at will. This resulted in the ranks of the clergy being filled with very unworthy men and reduced the priest to the position of being an hireling/employee of the laity, consequently resulting in the laity's contempt.
As there were no resident bishops in North America, the Anglican parishes here were under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of London, who governed them by means of commissaries. The power of the laity was so strong, however, and the class of men willing to serve as hirelings rather than priests so inferior, that the spiritual state of Anglicanism in the American colonies was very weak.
At the close of The War of Independence, Episcopalians, as they were then commonly called, realized that The Church must have a national organization if it was to prosper and grow. The biggest obstacle to creating a National Church was the lack of a national hierarchy. In Connecticut, the former Congregational converts to Anglicanism considered a bishop to be of absolute necessity. The Connecticut clergy therefore elected the Rev'd Samuel Seabury as their Bishop and gave him the mandate to go abroad and obtain valid Apostolic Orders.
The Anglican Bishops in England could not by law consecrate any one who would not take the Oath of Allegiance to the Monarch of the Realm, however. It would have been impossible, therefore, for Bishop elect Seabury to return to America if he had received consecration as a British subject who had sworn allegiance to the King of England. With the refusal of the English bishops to bestow episcopal consecration, Fr. Seabury proceeded to Scotland. After prolonged negotiations with the Nonjuring bishops of Scotland, he finally obtained their consent to confer Apostolic Succession upon him.
The Nonjuring Bishops of Scotland were the remnant of the Church which the Stuarts had endeavored to establish in Scotland but which had lost the protection of the State as well as all Church endowments by remaining supporters of James II. The average Scotsman considered them to be almost as obnoxious as Roman Catholics and certainly just as dangerous.
The Nonjuring Bishops of Scotland were extremely High Church. They abandoned the Calvinistic doctrine of the Holy Eucharist espoused in The 39 Articles of The Church of England and returned to the "Lutheran" doctrine of the 1549 Articles. They used Holy Chrism in Confirmation, were considered firm believers in the sacerdotal character of the Holy Priesthood, and adamant in the necessity of Apostolic Succession and Episcopal Ordination.
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Dr. Seabury was consecrated by the Nonjuring Bishops on 14 November 1784. Immediately after his consecration to the office and work of Bishop, he signed a Concordat with the Nonjurors (on 15 Nov. 1784) agreeing to introduce the liturgical and doctrinal beliefs and practices of the Nonjurors into the Episcopal Church in Connecticut. He specifically promised to persuade the American Church to use the Prayer of Consecration taken largely unchanged by The Episcopal Church of Scotland from the 1549 Book of Common Prayer. Upon his return to Connecticut he organized and governed his Diocese according to the doctrine and practice of his Consecrators. The "children" were no longer allowed to rule and control The Church. Bishop Seabury governed and ruled the Episcopal Church in Connecticut according to Biblical and ancient canonical practices; the laity was excluded from all deliberations, ecclesiastical councils and control of ecclesiastical affairs. In effect, Bishop Seabury is the Father of the traditional High Church party within PECUSA, marked by evangelical piety united with high sacramental ideals. In stark contrast to the understanding of The Church adopted by Bishop Seabury in Connecticut, a very non Catholic and non historic view of Church polity was adopted in New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Dr. William White, Rector of Christ Church, believed that the Episcopal Church must assent to and adopt the secular, non Biblical principle of "representative government." He was even willing to employ the practice of Presbyterian Ordination until such time as a valid Apostolic Succession could be obtained from The Church of England.
Surprisingly, Presbyterian Ordination found little favor among the Faithful of Pennsylvania. Fortunately an Act was passed in the English Parliament allowing English bishops to confer the Episcopacy upon men not subject to the British Crown. Consequently, Dr. William White (Bishop Elect of Pennsylvania) and Dr. Samuel Provoost (Bishop Elect of New York) were consecrated at the hands of the 88th Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. John Moore, on Septuagesima Sunday, 4 February 1787.
Upon the return of Bishops White and Provoost to the United States, there were so many differences between the Connecticut Church and that of the Middle and Southern States, that a merger or union could not be immediately effected. When Dr. James Madison was elected to be Bishop of Virginia, he was forced to go to England to be consecrated since Bishop Provost of New York (perhaps the Father of what later came to be known as the Broad Church party within PECUSA) refused to act in conjunction with the Bishop of Connecticut. (Bishop White might be considered the Father of the Evangelical party within PECUSA, with its belief in the desirability- rather than the necessity -- of Apostolic Succession and its desire to closely coöperate with all other churches of the Reformation.) The foundation for differing doctrines of The Church was already evident at this early time within The Protestant Episcopal Church. The union was finally cemented in 1792, when Dr. Thomas John Claggert was elected Bishop of Maryland. There were now three "valid" Anglican bishops in the U.S.A. (excluding Dr. Seabury). Bishop Provoost of New York therefore withdrew his objections to allowing Dr. Seabury to participate in Dr. Claggert's consecration. Had Bishop Seabury not been invited to participate in the consecration of Dr. Claggert, the result would have been a schism between Connecticut and the other States.
ANGLICAN SUCCESSION I
POPE ST. NICHOLAS I
(consecrated in 858)
Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate in 864: FORMOSUS
(Bishop of Porto; Pope 891)
Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate in 891: St. PLEGMUND
(as Archbishop of Canterbury)
Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate in 909: ALTHELM
(as Bishop of Wells; 914 Canterbury)
Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate 914:
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WULFHELM
(as Bishop of Wells; 923 Canterbury)
Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate in 927: ODO (as Bishop of Ramsbury; 942 Canterbury)
Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate in 957: ST. DUNSTAN (as Bishop of Worcester; 960 Canterbury) Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate in 984: ST. AELPHEGE (as Bishop of Winchester; 1005 Canterbury)
Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate in 990: ELFRIC (as Bishop of Ramsbury; 995 Canterbury)
Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate in 1003: WULFSTAN (as Bishop of Worcester and York)
Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 13 November 1020: ETHELNOTH (as Archbishop of Canterbury)
Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate in 1035: EADSIGE (as Bishop of St. Martin's, Canterbury; 1038 Archbishop of Canterbury) Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 3 April 1043: STIGAND (as Bishop of Elmham; 1052 Canterbury)
Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate in 1058: SIWARD (as Bishop of Rochester) assisting William, Bishop of London and Giso, Bishop of Wells (consecrated 15 April 1061 by Pope Nicholas II) Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 29 September 1070 BL. LANFRANC (as Archbishop of Canterbury) Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate in 1070: THOMAS (as Archbishop of York)
Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 4 December 1094: ST. ANSELM (as Archbishop of Canterbury) Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 26 July 1108: RICHARD de BELMEIS (as Bishop of London) Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 18 February 1123: WILLIAM of CORBEUIL (as Archbishop of Canterbury) Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 17 November 1129: HENRY of BLOIS (as Bishop of Winchester) Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 3 June 1162: ST. THOMAS BECKET (as Archbishop of Canterbury)
Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 23 August 1164: ROGER of GLOUCESTER (as Bishop of Worcester) assisting Gilbert Foliot, Bishop of London Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 7 November 1176: PETER de LEIA (as Bishop of St. David's, Wales)
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assisting Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury John Cumin, Archbishop of Dublin Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 29 September 1185: GILBERT GLANVILLE (as Bishop of Rochester) assisting Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury Bernard, Archbishop of Ragusa (consecrated 19 November 1189 by Pope Clement III) Philip of Poictou, Bishop of Durham (consecrated 20 April 1197 by Pope Celestine III) Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 23 May 1199:
WILLIAM de SAINTE MERE L'EGLISE (as Bishop of London) assisting Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury (consecrated 17 June 1207 by Pope Innocent III) Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 5 October 1214: WALTER de GRAY (as Bishop of Worcester; 1216 Archbishop of York) Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 5 December 1249: WALTER KIRKHAM (as Bishop of Durham) Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 7 February 1255: HENRY (as Bishop of Whithern) assisting William Wickwane, Archbishop of York (consecrated 17 September 1279 by Pope Nicholas III) Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 9 January 1284: ANTHONY BECK (as Bishop of Durham; 1306 Patriarch of Jerusalem) Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 14 September 1292: JOHN of HALTON (as Bishop of Carlisle) assisting Thomas Cobham, Bishop of Worcester Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 27 June 1322: ROGER NORTHBOROUGH (as Bishop of Lichfield) assisting Henry Burghersh, Bishop of Lincoln Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 15 July 1330:
ROBERT WYVIL (as Bishop of Salisbury) Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 12 March 1340:
RALPH STRATFORD (as Bishop of London) assisting John Stratford, Archbishop of Canterbury Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 15 May 1346:
WILLIAM EDENDON (as Bishop of Winchester) Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 20 March 1362: SIMON SUDBURY (as Bishop of London; 1375 Archbishop of Canterbury) Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 12 May 1370:
THOMAS BRENTINGHAM (as Bishop of Exeter)
Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 5 January 1382: ROBERT BRAYBROOKE (as Bishop of London) Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 3 February 1398: ROGER WALDEN (as Archbishop of Canterbury)
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Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 14 July 1398: HENRY BEAUFORT (as Bishop of Lincoln; 1405 Bishop of Winchester) Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 15 May 1435: THOMAS BOURCHIER (as Bishop of Worcester; 1443 Ely, 1454 Canterbury) Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 31 January 1479: JOHN MORTON (as Bishop of Ely; 1486 Canterbury) Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 21 May 1497: RICHARD FITZJAMES (as Bishop of Rochester; 1503 Chichester; 1506 London) Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 25 September 1502: WILLIAM WARHAM (as Bishop of London; 1503 Cant)
Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 15 May 1521: JOHN LONGLANDS (as Bishop of Lincoln)
Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 30 March 1533: THOMAS CRANMER (as Archbishop of Canterbury)
Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate in June 1536: WILLIAM BARLOW (as Bishop of St. David's, Wales; 1549 Bath; 1559 Chichester)
Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 17 December 1559: MATTHEW PARKER (as Archbishop of Canterbury)
Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 21 December 1559: EDMUND GRINDAL (as Bishop of London; 1570 York; 1576 Canterbury)
Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 21 April 1577: JOHN WHITGIFT (as Bishop of Worcester; 1583 Canterbury)
Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 8 May 1597: RICHARD BANCROFT (as Bishop of London; 1604 Canterbury)
Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 3 December 1609:
GEORGE ABBOT (as Bishop of Lichfield; 1610 London; 1611 Canterbury) assisted by Marc Anthonio de Dominis, (Dean of Windsor and former Roman Abp. of Spolatro & Primate of Dalmatia) Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 14 December 1617:
GEORGE MONTAIGNE
(as Bishop of Lincoln; 1621 London; 1628 Durham; 1628 York) assisted by John Howson (Bishop of Oxford)
Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 18 November 1621:
BL. WILLIAM LAUD
(as Bishop of St. David's, Wales; 1626 Bath; 1628 London; 1633 Canterbury) Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 17 June 1638: BRIAN DUPPA
(as Bishop of Chichester; 1641 Salisbury; 1660 Winchester) Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 28 October 1660 (see note 5):
GILBERT SHELDON (as Bishop of London; 1663 Canterbury)
Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 6 December 1674: HENRY COMPTON (as Bishop of Oxford; 1675 London)
Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 27 January 1678: WILLIAM SANCROFT (as Archbishop of Canterbury)
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Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 25 October 1685: THOMAS WHITE (as Bishop of Peterborough, who was deposed in 1690 as a non juror) Under Royal Warrant from the exiled King James II Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 24 February 1693: GEORGE HICKES (as Bishop of Thetford) Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 24 February 1712: JAMES GADDERAR (consecrated without a See because of penal conditions; later Bp. of Aberdeen and Moray) Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 4 June 1727:
THOMAS RATTRAY (as Bishop of Dunkold) Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate in 1741: WILLIAM FALCONAR (as Bishop of Ross and Caithness) Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 21 September 1768: ROBERT KILGOUR (as Bishop of Aberdeen) assisted by Bishop Coadjutor John Skinner (Aberdeen) & Bishop Arthur Petrie (Ross & Caithness) Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 14 November 1784:
SAMUEL SEABURY (as Bishop of Connecticut) assisted by Bishop William White, Bishop Samuel Provoost and Bishop James Madison Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 17 September 1792:
THOMAS JOHN CLAGGETT (as Bishop of Maryland) assisted by Bishop William White and Bishop Samuel Provoost Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 7 May 1797:
EDWARD BASS (as Bishop of Massachusetts) assisted by Bishop William White and Bishop Samuel Provoost Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 18 October 1797:
ABRAHAM JARVIS (as Bishop of Connecticut) assisted by Bishop William White and Bishop Samuel Provoost Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 29 May 1811:
ALEXANDER VIETS GRISWOLD (as Bishop of the Eastern Diocese) assisted by Bishop William White and Bishop Nathaniel Bowen Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 31 October 1832:
JOHN HENRY HOPKINS (as Bishop of Vermont) assisted by Bishop Benjamin B. Smith and Bishop Lee Henry Washington Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 15 November 1866: GEORGE DAVID CUMMINS (as Assistant Bishop of Kentucky) Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 14 December 1873:
CHARLES EDWARD CHENEY (for the Reformed Episcopal Church) assisted by Bishop George David Cummins Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 24 February 1876:
WILLIAM RUFUS NICHOLSON (Reformed Episcopal Church) assisted by Bishop Samuel Fallows Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 22 June 1879:
ALFRED SPENCER RICHARDSON (Reformed Episcopal Church)
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Assisting Bishop Charles Isaac Stevens (2nd Patriarch, The Ancient British Church) Consecrated sub conditione to The Sacred Episcopate on 4 May 1890: LEON CHECHEMIAN
(as Mar Leon, Abp. of Selsey; sometime Armenian Uniate Titular Bishop of Malatia) assisted by Bp. James Martin (Abp. of Caerleon upon Usk), Bp. Frederick Boucher & Bp. George W. L. Maaers (Iglesia Española Reformada Episcopal)
Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 2 November 1897: ANDREW CHARLES ALBERT McLAGEN (as Titular Bishop of Claremont)
Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 4 June 1922:
HERBERT JAMES MONZANI HEARD (as Mar Jacobus II, Archbishop of Selsey; 1930 Primate, Free Protestant Episcopal Church) Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 13 June 1943:
WILLIAM BERNARD CROW
Grand Master of the Order of the Holy Wisdom (as Mar Bernard, Bishop of Santa Sophia) (17 October 1943: Mar Basilius Abdullah III, Sovereign Prince Patriarch of Antioch) Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 10 April 1944:
HUGH GEORGE de WILLMOTT NEWMAN (as Mar Georgius I, Metropolitan of Glastonbury and Catholicos of the West) assisted by Abp. John Sebastian Marlow Ward (Archbishop of Olivet)
Bishop Richard Kenneth Hurgon (Titular Bishop of Mere [Somerset])
Bishop John Syer (Mar John, Bishop of Verulam)
Bishop Charles Leslie Saul (Mar Leofric, Archbishop of Suthronia in the Eparchy of All the Britons)
Bishop Francis Ernest Langhelt (Mar Francis, Bishop of Minster)
Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 6 June 1946:
WALLACE DAVID de ORTEGA MAXEY (as Mar David I, Patriarch of Malaga, Apostolic Primate of all the Iberians, & Supreme Hierarch of the Catholicate of the West in the Americas) assisted by Abp. Robert Ronald Ramm (Archbishop Primate, The Apostolic Episcopal Catholic Church) Consecrated sub conditione to The Sacred Episcopate on 7 November 1986:
NILS BERTIL ALEXANDER PERSSON
(as Primate of The Apostolic Episcopal Church) assisted by Archbishop Emile Federico Rodriguez y Fairfield, Bishop Carroll T. Lowery, Archbishop Arthur J. Garrow, Archbishop Paul G. W. Schultz, Bishop Howard D. van Orden, Bishop Petros (Eric Tan Ong Veloso), Bishop Christopher J. Rogers & Exarch Marciel (Michael Marshall) Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 5 August 1989:
KARL JULIUS BARWIN (Primate, The Evangelical Catholic Church) Bishop Karl J. Barwin did consecrated to the episcopate on May 12, 1990 George Augustus Stallings, Jr. Patriarch and Archbishop of the African American Catholic Congregation, who consecrated Carlos Enrique Harvin Bishop in 1996 for the African American Catholic Congregation. Bishop Harvin consecrated on January 18, 2004 Frederick “Francis-Maria” Salvato, O.S.F.
The Apostolic Society of Franciscan Communities Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2006
James M. Long
Presiding Archbishop, United States Independent Catholic Church Consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2008 Bryan T. Marabanian
Presiding Bishop, American Apostolic Church Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate, sub conditione, in 2009
William J. M. Smith, OSB
Abbot Bishop of the Order of Saint Benedict of the American Apostolic Church
ANGLICAN SUCESSION II
John Moore (1730 - 1805) (Archbishop of Canterbury, 1783) assisted by
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William Markham (Abp. of York), Bp. Charles Moss & Bp. John Hinchliffe Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 4 February 1787: William White (1748 - 1836) (Presiding Bishop, PECUSA: 1789, 1795 1835) assisted by Bishop Henry Hobart, Bishop James Kemp, Bishop John Croes & Bishop Nathaniel Brown Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 25 October 1827: Henry Ustick Onderdonk (1789 1858) (Bishop of Pennsylvania) assisted by Bishop George Washington Doane & Bishop Jackson Kemper Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 7 July 1836: Samuel Allen McCoskry (1804 1886) (First PECUSA Bishop of Michigan) assisted by Bishop George Thurston Bedell, Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple, Bishop Joseph Cruikshank Talbot, Bishop Robert Harper Clarkson, Bishop John Franklin Spalding & Bishop George de Normandie Gillespie Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 6 December 1875: William Edward McLaren (1831 - 1905) (Third PECUSA Bishop of Illinois) assisted by Bishop George F. Seymour & Bishop Cortlandt Whitehead Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 24 June 1898: William Montgomery Brown (1855 - 1937) (PECUSA Bishop of Arkansas; Auxiliary Bp, Old Catholic Church in America) assisted by Archbishop William Henry Francis Brothers, Bishop Albert Jehan & Bishop Józef Zielonka Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 2 January 1927: Wallace David de Ortega Maxey (1902 1992) (Retired Primate, Apostolic Episcopal Church in America) assisted by Archbishop Robert R. Ramm Consecrated sub conditione to The Sacred Episcopate on 7 November 1986: Nils Bertil Alexander Persson (1941 - ) (Primate, The Apostolic Episcopal Church) assisted by Archbishop Emile Federico Rodriguez y Fairfield, Bishop Carroll T. Lowery, Archbishop Arthur J. Garrow, Archbishop Paul G. W. Schultz, Bishop Howard D. van Orden, Bishop Petros (Eric Tan Ong Veloso), Bishop Christopher J. Rogers & Exarch Marciel (Michael Marshall) Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 5 August 1989: Karl Julius Barwin (1943 )
(Primate, The Evangelical Catholic Church)
Bishop Karl J. Barwin did consecrated to the episcopate on May 12, 1990 George Augustus Stallings, Jr. Patriarch and Archbishop of the African American Catholic Congregation, who consecrated Carlos Enrique Harvin Bishop in 1996 for the African American Catholic Congregation. Bishop Harvin consecrated on January 18, 2004
Frederick “Francis-Maria” Salvato, O.S.F.
The Apostolic Society of Franciscan Communities
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2006
James M. Long
Presiding Archbishop, United States Independent Catholic Church
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2008
Bryan T. Marabanian
Presiding Bishop, American Apostolic Church
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate,sub conditione, in 2009
William J. M. Smith, OSB
Abbot Bishop of the Order of Saint Benedict of the American Apostolic Church
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The Apostolic Succession from The Mexican National Catholic Church (Iglesia Ortodoxa Católica Apostólica Mexicana)
Generalissimo Plutarco Elias Calles, President of Mexico (1924 1928), and the Mexican government, with the intent of minimizing the great political influence and control then exercised by The Church of Rome and its Bishops in Mexico, desired to foster and encourage a native based national Church which would not be subject to foreign interests and goals. Eventually the President formally requested Archbishop Carmel Henry Carfora (of the North American Old Roman Catholic Church) to consecrate bishops for Mexico and to thus help establish a National Church.
On 17 October 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., Abp. Carfora consecrated: José Joaquin Pérez y Budar, Antonio Benicio López y Sierra, and Dr. Macario López y Valdes for this government supported new national jurisdiction. Bp. José Joaquin Pérez y Budar became Primate and Patriarch of the Iglesia Ortodoxa Católica Apostólica Mexicana (also known as: The Mexican National Catholic Church, The Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Church of Mexico, or The Mexican Old Roman Catholic Church). Bp. Antonio Benicio López y Sierra was named Coädjutor and Dr. Macario López y Valdes (a doctor of Osteopathic Medicine in the United States) was consecrated as Bishop of Puebla de Zaragoza. This government sponsored patriotic movement to establish a National, rather than foreign controlled, Church was comparatively short lived. Under the leadership of a Roman trained and ordained priest who had joined the National Church and been consecrated a Bishop of the Mexican National Church in 1961, the Iglesia Ortodoxa Católica Apostólica Mexicana united with a U.S. Orthodox jurisdiction. The leader of this movement, Bishop José Cortes y Olmas, was re consecrated as Bishop Exarch of the Mexican Exarchate of the Orthodox Church in America in 1972 at Holy Virgin Protection Cathedral in New York City. Most of the parishes not joining the Orthodox Church in America returned to The Church of Rome (including many extension parishes in Texas).
Although three Bishops were consecrated to initiate the Mexican hierarchy, the "Nationalistas" (as they were often called), failed to replace The Church of Rome in Mexico and today only one remnant parish in Mexico and the East Los Angeles parish of Archbishop Emil F. Rodriquez y Fairfield remain. Unlike the Filipinos, the Mexicans demanded continued celibacy in their national independent Church and were unable to recruit new priests.
MEXICAN NATIONAL CATHOLIC CHURCH SUCCESSION I
Bishop Carmel Henry Carfora, OFM was consecrated in the Chapel of St. Dunstan's Abbey in Waukegan, Illinois, by Archbishop Rudolf Franziskus Eduard de Landas Berghes et de Rache assisted by Bishop William Henry Francis Brothers, on 4 October 1916 as Archbishop of Canada. In 1919 Abp. Carfora became Primate of The North American Old Roman Catholic Church. Abp. Carfora consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop José Macario López y Valdes on 17 October 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, as Bishop of Puebla de Zaragoza, Mexico, for the Iglesia Ortodoxa Católica Apostólica Mexicana. Bishop Valdes consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Alberto Luis Rodriguez y Durand on .27 March 1930 "Por Autoridad del Patriarca de la Iglesia Ortodoxa Catolica Apostolica Mexicana" in the Old Catholic Orthodox Church of St. Augustine of the Mystical Body of Christ in Lost Angeles, California, USA, as Bishop Ordinary of Los Angeles and Regionary Bishop in Alto California. Bp. Rodriguez y Durand consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Emile Federico Rodriguez y Fairfield on 12 March 1955 in the Church of St. Augustine of the Mystical Body of Christ in Los Angeles, California, USA, as Bishop for Alta California. In 1983, with the death of Bp. José Cortes y Olmas, Bp. Rodriguez y Fairfield became the sole living possessor of episcopal orders from the Iglesia Ortodoxa Católica Apostólica Mexicana. On 13 September 1983 he was installed as the Archbishop/Primate of the Iglesia Ortodoxa Católica Apostólica Mexicana and head of the only remaining parish of that Church in East Los Angeles. Abp. Rodriguez y Fairfield consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1990:
George Augustus Stallings (African American Catholic Congregation) Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1996
Carlos Enrique Harvin (African American Catholic Congregation)
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Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2004
Frederick “Francis-Maria” Salvato, O.S.F.
The Apostolic Society of Franciscan Communities
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2006
James M. Long
Presiding Archbishop, United States Independent Catholic Church Consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2008
Bryan T. Marabanian
Presiding Bishop, American Apostolic Church
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate, sub conditione, in 2009
William J. M. Smith, OSB
Abbot Bishop of the Order of Saint Benedict of the American Apostolic Church
MEXICAN NATIONAL CATHOLIC CHURCH SUCCESSION II
Bishop Carmel Henry Carfora was consecrated in the Chapel of St. Dunstan's Abbey in Waukegan, Illinois, by Archbishop Rudolf Franziskus Eduard de Landas Berghes et de Rache assisted by Bishop William Henry Francis Brothers, on 4 October 1916 as Archbishop of Canada. In 1919 Abp. Carfora became Primate of The North American Old Roman Catholic Church. Abp. Carfora consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop José Macario López y Valdes on 17 October 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, as Bishop of Puebla de Zaragoza, Mexico, for the Iglesia Ortodoxa Católica Apostólica Mexicana. Bishop Valdes consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Alberto Luis Rodriguez y Durand on .27 March 1930 "Por Autoridad del Patriarca de la Iglesia Ortodoxa Catolica Apostolica Mexicana" in the Old Catholic Orthodox Church of St. Augustine of the Mystical Body of Christ in Lost Angeles, California, USA, as Bishop Ordinary of Los Angeles and Regionary Bishop in Alto California. Bp. Rodriguez y Durand consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Emile Federico Rodriguez y Fairfield on 12 March 1955 in the Church of St. Augustine of the Mystical Body of Christ in Los Angeles, California, USA, as Bishop for Alta California. In 1983, with the death of Bp. José Cortes y Olmas, Bp. Rodriguez y Fairfield became the sole living possessor of episcopal orders from the Iglesia Ortodoxa Católica Apostólica Mexicana. On 13 September 1983 he was installed as the Archbishop/Primate of the Iglesia Ortodoxa Católica Apostólica Mexicana and head of the only remaining parish of that Church in East Los Angeles. Abp. Rodriguez y Fairfield consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate: Bishop Karl Julius Barwin as Primate of The Evangelical Catholic Church on The Feast of Saint Addai and Saint Mari (5 August) 1989, in The Chapel of The Holy Guardian Angels in Glendale, California, assisting Archbishop Bertil Persson (The Apostolic Episcopal Church), together with Bishop Carroll T. Lowery (The Apostolic Episcopal Church), Archbishop Arthur J. Garrow (The Archiepiscopate Ordinariate of Healing Arts Missionaries & Chaplains in America) and Archbishop Howard D. van Orden (Order of St. Jude, The Philippine Independent Catholic Church in the Americas), each assisting, coöperating and co consecrating by laying on hands and uttering all the words of consecration. Bishop Karl J. Barwin did consecrated to the episcopate on May 12, 1990
George Augustus Stallings, Jr. Patriarch and Archbishop of the African American Catholic Congregation, who consecrated Carlos Enrique Harvin Bishop in 1996 for the African American Catholic Congregation. Bishop Harvin consecrated on January 18, 2004
Frederick “Francis-Maria” Salvato, O.S.F.
The Apostolic Society of Franciscan Communities
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2006
James M. Long
Presiding Archbishop, United States Independent Catholic Church
Consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2008
Bryan T. Marabanian
Presiding Bishop, American Apostolic Church
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate, sub conditione, in 2009
William J. M. Smith, OSB
Abbot Bishop of the Order of Saint Benedict of the American Apostolic Church
The Apostolic Succession from Iglesia Filipina Independiente (The Philippine Independent Catholic Church)
With a membership well in excess of one million members, the Iglesia Filipina Independiente has long been considered one of the largest Catholic jurisdictions not under obedience to Rome.
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Sometimes called the "Aglipayan" Church, this national Church is the daughter Church of The Roman Catholic Church of The Philippines rather than a result of the movement to restore Orthodoxy to the Occidental Church of Europe during the Middle Ages. Her history, however, is firmly linked to the history of Spain.
Almost four centuries ago the power of Spain overshadowed all other European nations in the Americas. In the same year that Cortes conquered Mexico, Magellan discovered the Philippines in the Pacific which Spain governed, robbed, and oppressed for three hundred and seventy five years (until she lost control on May 1, 1898, when the U.S. fleet, under Commadore George Dewey, sailed into the Bay of Manila and won a victory as complete and astonishing as that of Cortes in Mexico).
Spain's misrule in her colonies (Magellan began his rule in The Philippines by decapitating the beloved native ruler) produced a chronic state of insurrection; one after another, her colonies slipped from her grasp (Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, The Argentine, Mexico, Louisiana, Florida, and the greater part of the East Indies). She ceded Louisiana to France in 1800, Florida to the United States in 1819, and a few years later Mexico achieved her independence. Yet Spain still had the rich islands of Cuba and Puerto Rico in the West Indies and The Philippines in the East Indies; but these were quickly lost after her humiliating defeat by the Americans.
Just as the Spanish colonial government had oppressed the Filipino people, so also the Church of Rome (thru the rule of the local parishes by the Friars) greatly oppressed the native population. When Commadore Dewey won The Battle of Manila and occupied the city, he had to set up an American defense force to protect the former Spanish colonial rulers (civil and religious) and allow them to leave the islands. The National Philippine Militia was at the gates of Manila and had vowed to kill all Spaniards. Commadore Dewey was later commended by most European powers for the honorable way in which he had handled this matter.
It was not that The Church of Rome and her clergy, even the Friars, had worked in vain. The native population had been brought the hope of The Gospel, which survives today in the vigorous folk devotion in the villages and the equally vigorous intellectual life of the larger cities of The Philippines.
Never the less, the Spanish colonial system, which identified The Church of Rome with the official colonial government (State), had put into the hands of the religious a tempting power which bore seeds of abuse and corruption. By the nineteenth century, the Spanish Friars enjoyed such a suffocating monopoly on farmland that they became the main target of the revolutionary literature which finally united the Filipino people in armed rebellion in 1896. Within the Church of Rome in The Philippines, the Filipino clergy agitated against the arbitrary power of the foreign Friars. They also suffered from what might be called "racial discrimination" in that native clergy always occupied second rate positions, and none were ever elevated to the episcopal rank.
In 1872 three native priests were executed for taking an anti friar stand, an act not forgotten by the native clergy
But Commadore Dewey's arrival in Manila Bay revived the stalemated native Filipino Spanish hostilities. After the Battle of Manila and the occupation of Manila by Dewey, Father Gregorio Aglipay (of Illocos Norte) was appointed Vicar General of the Revolutionary Army by General Emilio Aguinaldo. In addition, the Spanish Bishop Jose Hevia Campomanes, a prisoner of the Filipino forces, named Fr. Aglipay the Ecclesiastical Governor of Nueva Segovia, a huge Episcopal See covering all of Northern Luzon.
The growing ranks of rebel native priests, now led by Fr. Aglipay, petitioned the Papal Nuncio for a native episcopacy. He promptly told them that "the Pope would never agree because . . . Filipinos were not capable of episcopacy."
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The same day the Filipino native clergy received the insulting dictum of the Papal Nuncio in 1901, they announced their withdrawal from The Church of Rome under the slogan "An Independent Church in an =Independent Philippines."
The fiery Don Isabelo de los Reyes, a journalist, folklorist and labor organizer who led the lay delegates of the native clergy (and whose son some fifty years later was to become the Obispo Maximo of the Independent Church) urged an independent Church be founded immediately.
After some days of deliberation, the native clergy proceeded to elect seventeen native clergy as bishops and Fr. Gregorio Aglipay as The Supreme Bishop (Obispo Maximo). Thus was born the Iglesia Catolica Filipina Independiente, which is also termed the Iglesia Filipina Independiente. At the time of its formation the language of the realm was Spanish. In the English language the Church is known as The Philippine Independent Catholic Church or The Independent Catholic Church of The Philippines.
Father Aglipay, who was now called Monsignor Aglipay by his followers, was not only a loyal patriot but also a priest in Holy Orders of The Church of Rome. Although he realized that, in Rome's view, he could transmit to new priests valid presbyterial orders and thus establish a valid priesthood, he sought for a "regular" consecration to the episcopacy that would bring in line the Apostolic Succession of the ancient and truly Catholic Church.
He corresponded with the Old Catholics of Europe, the Episcopalians of the United States, and The Apostolic Episcopal Church of Bishop Wolfert Brooks of New York without success. The native Church, however, grew rapidly, and was encouraged by the American presence in The Philippines.
Governor-General William H. Taft was appointed and accepted the position of Honorary President of the Independent Church before he left for the United States in 1903.
The two million Filipinos who had joined Msgr. Aglipay in his revolt against The Church of Rome took possession of the buildings in which they had been worshipping for generations. Challenged by the Church of Rome in U.S. courts, all properties were taken away from the people and handed back to the Church of Rome. Starting all over again, the Independientes nevertheless built Chapels and Churches throughout the country. Yet compared to the Church of Rome, they were a Church in poverty and could provide no Church-operated colleges or seminaries for their people.
Nationalism was the vitality that held the Philippine Independent Church together through many trials and setbacks. Religiously the average Aglipayan lost nothing and gained little, for although he gave up worship in the beautiful buildings of his forefathers, he continued to hear a generally unreformed Mass and enjoyed the close fellowship of a minority Church.
In addition, the clergy seemed more able to understand the problems of living because almost all of them were married. Except for the fact of a married clergy, not subject to the discipline of Roman obedience, the Church had changed little. It was still The One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church of Christ Jesus for the Filipino faithful.
Although controversialists said this independent Church would fail, some fifty years later it still had in excess of two million members, and the Government Census taken each decade (which also polls religious preference) consistently shows that one seventh of the Filipinos prefer membership in the Independent Church.
While no men of good will, Protestant or Catholic, would question the validity of the apostolate of the Independent Church, the question of the lack of a traceable Apostolic Succession (which was raised by Msgr. Aglipay himself) continued to be asked. The Protestant Episcopal Church in The United States of America provided the answer in 1948.
The Protestant Episcopal Church, looking back on its history, found that it had completely missed the mark when it refused to establish a vital episcopacy in Mexico in the late 1920's. After an assignation attempt on the life of the Mexican President and his cabinet
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members (allegedly traced to the Roman Catholic prelates and clergy in Mexico), Presidente Plutarco Elias Calles vowed to establish a Mexican National Catholic Church separate from and independent of Rome.
The Protestant Episcopal Church in the USA turned down the Mexican request and Presidente Calles finally obtained the Apostolic Succession for the Mexican National Catholic Church from Msgr. Carmel Henry Carfora, Archbishop of Chicago of the Old Roman Catholic Church.
Although three Bishops were consecrated to initiate the Mexican hierarchy (Jose Joaquin Perez y Budar, Antonio Lopez Sierra and Dr. Macario Lopez Valdes), the "Nationalistas" (as they were called), failed to replace The Church of Rome in Mexico and today only one remnant parish in Mexico and the East Los Angeles parish of Bishop Emil F. Rodriquez y Fairfield remains. Unlike the Filipinos, the Mexicans demanded continued celibacy in their national independent Church and were unable to recruit new priests.
Near the turn of the nineteenth century, some Protestant Episcopal Bishops (such as Charles Chapman Grafton, who became Bishop of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin in 1888), espoused the so called "Three Branch Theory" of the Church. The idea was that one branch was The Church of Rome, another branch was the Orthodox Church under Constantinople, and the third branch was The Church of England. Thus, it was thought, the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A. would eventually become the TRUE American Catholic Church; and in a time before The Church of Rome was firmly established in the United States, PECUSA had high hopes.
It was the echo of this Branch Theory of Bishop Grafton that prevented the PECUSA from acting in the case of Mexico, and thus lost to the non papal Christians the whole country of Mexico which, having cast out the Church of Rome and her clergy might have brought into the country the enlightenment that PECUSA claimed was hers. But they did nothing until it was too late to do anything. The ideal was one branch only per country, and this idea blinded PECUSA's eyes at that time.
PECUSA did not again want to miss the opportunity for missionary advancement. When, after several years of correspondence, Isabelo de los Reyes, Jr., became the leader of the Philippine national Church, PECUSA set aside the Branch Theory for one of "side-by-side" jurisdictions in the same land.
On April 7, 1948, Isabela de los Reyes, Jr., and two other native bishops were consecrated to the Sacred Episcopacy by Bishop Norman S. Binstead of the PECUSA Missionary District of The Philippines, assisted by his suffragan (Bishop Robert F. Wilner) and the Rt. Rev'd Harry S. Kennedy (PECUSA Bishop of Honolulu). The three newly consecrated Philippine prelates then consecrated all the other native Bishops and ordained all priests and deacons according to the PECUSA rite.
The Apostolic Succession obtained by the Philippine Independent Church was that of PECUSA from The Church of England. A few years later, when European Old Catholics assisted in Filipino Episcopal consecrations, the Old Catholic Lines of the European Bishops were added.
For many years the Independents and the Philippine Episcopalians walked side by side in harmony. However, over the years, differences developed. The "High Church" versus the "Low Church" problems of the Episcopalians in the USA did not appear as such in The Philippines, the conflicting parties rather seemed to be grouped as Pro Protestant (or Pro PECUSA) and Pro Catholic.
More recently groups have favored former President Ferdinand Marcos who, as an infant, was baptized into the Independent Church by Msgr. Gregorio Aglipay himself. President Marcos had helped finance the Aglipay National Shrine which served as the Cathedral of Bishop Manuel Lagasca. Even as President Marcos often favored the Independent Church until his
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conversion and political position as a Roman Catholic; so also many of the older "Pro Catholic" Independent Bishops and clergy also supported Marcos when he was in office.
The Pro Protestant groups of younger priests and bishops within the Independent Church often tried (and succeeded) to overshadow the "war horse" bishops and priests who had been with the Independent Church from Her founding. One example: On May 8, 1961, the Pro Protestant party won enough support to force the Constitution and Canons of The Philippine Independent Church to be amended to read, concerning Holy Orders, that "No bishop shall maintain seminarians in his convent or within his diocese on the ground that there is an official seminary, St. Francis Theological Seminary, Quezon City, ecognized by the Church, where provision is made for the education of those who have a vocation to the priesthood. It is absolutely prohibited that any bishop ordain men to the priesthood . . . without certification issued by the dean of the seminary ..."
What this meant for The Independent Philippine Church is that, if a man graduated from Yale Divinity School or Union Theological Seminary or Concordia Theological Seminary or Harvard University (just to name a few schools from which that priests of the Los Angeles Diocese of The Philippine Independent Catholic Church in the Americas have graduated), they would be unable to be ordained as priests in The Independent Church.
Also, the many Roman Catholic priests who, after having married, wanted to work as priests within the Independent Church would have to be refused. The older bishops of The Church never obeyed this canon, which they said turned their postulants over to a PECUSA controlled seminary and the heresies of modernism which trickled down from PECUSA even to the Philippines. Also, these Church Fathers did not approve of PECUSA's sole control over the seminary and their postulants. These older Bishops refused to give up their diocesan training centers for clergy and continued the practice of accepting former Roman priests. Msgr. Isabela de los Reyes, Jr., had been elected the Obispo Maximo (Supreme Bishop) in 1948, and continued to be re-elected every four years until his death. He was succeeded by Bishop Macario V. Ga, of the Diocese of Negros Oriental. Msgr. Ga has since been re-elected every four years. It is remarkable that many of the men who were with The Independent Catholic Church in The Philippines when She received Apostolic Succession from PECUSA are still serving and still in office.
The vision of formally extending The Philippine Independent Catholic Church to the United States was primarily carried to fulfillment through the efforts of Dr. Thomas Gore. Dr. Gore graduated from Nashotah House (a PECUSA seminary in Wisconsin) in 1976 and was ordained a priest within PECUSA by the Rt. Rev'd Charles Bennison (Bishop of Western Michigan) in 1968. He continued his education and received the Doctor of Medicine degree from the Autonomous University of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Licensed both in Texas and Mexico as a medical doctor, he currently practices psychiatry in Lubbock, Texas.
Fr. Gore was a representative when Bishop Pagtakhan of The Philippine Independent Catholic Church (assisted by Bp. Sergio Mondala and Bp. Lupe Rosete) consecrated Robert Kennaugh, Ogden Miller and C. Wayne Craig to the Sacred Episcopate for the continuing Anglican jurisdictions in the USA. Dr. Gore, however, desired a more direct link with the mainland Independent Church. After visiting the Philippines and winning the approval of Obispo Maximo Macario Ga and Archbishop Pagtakhan, Dr. Gore was consecrated on April 20, 1986, by Abp. Pagtakhan, Bp. Bayani Mercado and Bp. F. Barber. Bishop Gore then caused the American diocese of The Philippine Independent Catholic Church to be incorporated in the State of Texas as the Iglesia Filipina Independiente, The Philippine Independent Catholic Church in the Americas with Abp. Francisco Pagtakhan serving as President of the Diocese/Corporation. It was Bishop Gore's hope that this new American jurisdiction could serve as a refuge for all traditional Episcopalians in the U.S.A. seeking valid sacraments, holy orders, and recognition by the International Catholic Community through its relation to the mainland Philippine Church which is a full member in good standing of The Anglican Communion. The
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Philippine Independent Catholic Church has been in existence in the USA for about ten years (as of this writing). The small candle that was lighted by Dr. Thomas Gore in Texas has burned brighter each year, enhanced by the rainbow beams of the Philippines. Known for more than a century as the "Jewel of the Orient" from a folk lore tradition that a Pearl from the Holy Grail was taken to the Philippines, an old tale says that the Philippines will bring the "Light of Understanding" to the Orient and bless the whole Christian world with the advancement of The Gospel of Jesus Christ.
The Iglesia Filipina Independiente, led by men such as Obispo Maximo Ga, Archbishop Francisco Pagtakhan, Archbishop Bartolome Remigio, Bishop Armando de la Cruz, and Bishop Manuel Lagasca, have given to the United States the great tradition of a conservative Independent Catholic Church. Yet it is not their work alone, it is the work of God.
PHILIPPINE SUCCESSION
Robert Kilgour, Bishop of Aberdeen & Primus of The Episcopal Church of Scotland, assisted by Bishop Coadjutor John Skinner of Aberdeen and Bishop Arthur Petrie of Ross & Caithness, consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 14 November 1784: Dr. Samuel Seabury (11/30/1729 2/25/1796), as Bishop of Connecticut. Bishop Seabury graduated from Yale University in 1748 (B.A.; M.A., 1751) and studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh (1752 1753). He was ordained a Deacon by Bishop Dr. John Thomas of Lincoln on 12/21/1753 and a priest by Bishop Dr. Richard Osbaldiston of Carlisle on 12/23/1753. In 1775, after a brief imprisonment in New Haven for being a British Loyalist, he fled to New York City (which remained loyal to the King) where he supported his family by practicing medicine and serving through the war as Chaplain of the King of England's American Regiment, under commission of Sir Henry Clinton (14 February 1778); after the Revolutionary War, he received a pension from the King for the rest of his life. In 1777 Bishop Seabury received the Doctor of Divinity degree from the University of Oxford. On 18 November 1790 he was also made Bishop of Rhode Island. Bishop Seabury, assisted by Bishop William White of Pennsylvania, Bishop Samuel Provoost of New York and Bishop James Madison of Virginia, consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 17 September 1792: Dr. Thomas John Claggett (1742 1816) as Bishop of Maryland (and the first canonical Episcopal/Anglican Bishop consecrated on American soil) and installed at Trinity Church at the foot of Wall Street in New York City City. On 27 November 1800, as the U.S. Senate completed its move to permanent quarters in Washington, D.C., the Rt. Rev'd Thomas John Claggett was elected as that body's third Chaplain. Bp. Claggett, assisted by Bishop William White and Bishop Samuel Provoost, consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 7 May 1797:
Edward Bass (11/23/1726 9/10/1803) as Bishop of New Hampshire and Massachusetts in Philadelphia. He graduated from Harvard in 1744 and received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the University of Pennsylvania in 1789. He was ordained both Deacon and Priest by Bishop Dr. Sherlock of London in May 1752. With the death of Bp. Seabury, Bishop Bass was requested to assume responsibility and jurisdiction over the Churches in Rhode Island; he also was given jurisdiction over the Churches in New Hampshire about the same time. Throughout his entire episcopacy, he also continued to serve as Rector of St. Paul's Church, Newburyport, Massachusetts. Bishop Bass, assisted by Bishop William White and Bishop Samuel Provoost, consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 18 October 1797:
Abraham Jarvis (3/26/1770 1813) as the second Bishop of Connecticut, succeeding Bishop Samuel Seabury. Bishop Jarvis, assisted by Bishop William White and Bishop Samuel Provoost, consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 29 May 1811:
John Henry Hobart (9/14/1775 9/12/1830) as Assistant Bishop of New York (succeeding Bishop Benjamin Moore and becoming Diocesan in 1816). He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University (graduating in 1793). He was ordained a Deacon in 1798 and a Priest in 1801. As Bishop, he initiated mission work among the Oneida Indians, was one of the founders of the General Theological Seminary and a renewer of Geneva (now Hobart) College. Bishop Hobart, assisted by Bishop William White and Bishop James Kemp (2nd Bishop of Maryland, consecrated in 1814), consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 25 October 1827:
Henry Ustick Onderdonk 3/16/1789 12/6/1858) in Christ Church, Philadelphia, as Assistant Bishop of Pennsylvania (becoming Diocesan in 1836 upon the death of Bishop William White). He graduated from Columbia University in 1805 and studied medicine in London and the University of Edinburgh (M.D.). He studied theology and was ordained Priest in Trinity Church, New York, on 11 April 1816 by Bishop John Henry Hobart. In 1827 he also received the degree of S.T.D. from Columbia University. Bishop Onderdonk, assisted by Bishop William White and Bishop Dr. Benjamin T. Onderdonk (Bishop of New York, consecrated in 1830), consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 14 January 1834:
Dr. James Hervey Otey (1/27/1800 4/23/1863) in Christ Church, Philadelphia, Penn., as the 1st Bishop of Tennessee and the 30th Bishop in the PECUSA Succession, with parishes in Arkansas, Louisiana,
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Mississippi, Florida and Tennessee. He was ordained both Deacon and Priest in Warrenton, North Carolina, by Bishop John S. Ravenscroft. Together with Louisiana Bishop Leonidas Polk (with whom he earlier founded Columbia Institute, a school for girls), he laid the groundwork for The University of the South at Suwanee, Tennessee, and served as the university's first Chancellor. Today a PECUSA parish on University Avenue in Suwanee bears the good Bishop's name. Bishop Otey, assisted by Bishop Leonidas Polk (1st Bishop of Louisiana; previously 1st Bishop of Arkansas; consecrated in 1838) and Bishop Nicholas H. Cobbs (1st Bishop of Alabama, consecrated in 1844), consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate on 24 February 1850: Dr. William Mercer Green (5/2/1798 2/13/1887) in St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Jackson, Mississippi, as the 1st Bishop of Mississippi. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1818 (studying theology) and was ordained a Deacon on 29 April 1821 by Bishop Richard C. Moore of Virginia in Christ Church, Raleigh, North Carolina. He was ordained a Priest on 20 April 1822 by the same bishop in St. James' Church, Wilmington, North Carolina. In 1845 he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the University of Pennsylvania. He served as Fourth Chancellor of The University of the South at Suwanee, Tennessee, beginning in 1867. Bishop Green, assisted by Bishop Joseph W. B. Wilmer (2nd Bishop of Louisiana; consecrated in 1866) and Bishop John W. Beckwith (2nd Bishop of Georgia; consecrated in consecrated in 1868), consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate on 17 January 1875: William Forbes Adams (1/2/1833 1920) in St. Paul's Church, New Orleans, as Missionary Bishop of New Mexico & Arizona, becoming the 2nd Bishop of Easton (Maryland) in 1887. He was ordained a Deacon on 15 December 1859 and a Priest in St. Andrew's Church, Jackson, Mississippi, on 29 July 1861 by Bishop William Mercer Green. Bishop Adams, assisted by Bishop Alfred M. Randolph of Southern Virginia (consecrated in 1883) and Bishop Dr. William Paret of Maryland (consecrated on 1/8/1885), consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate on The Feast of St. Michael and All Angels (29 September), 1909: John Gardner Murray (8/31/1857 10/3/29) as Coadjutor Bishop of Maryland, becoming Diocesan in 1911 (to 1929) and the first elected Presiding Bishop of PECUSA on 1 January 1926. Presiding Bishop John G. Murray, assisted by Bishop John McKim (1st Bishop of North Kwanto, consecrated in 1893) and Bishop Henry St. G. Tucker (consecrated in 1912 by Bp. John McKim, Bishop Norman Henry Tubbs of Rangoon in Burma and Bishop Arthur Lea of Kyushu, Japan) consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate on 3 December 1928: Norman Spencer Binsted (1890 1961), as Missionary Bishop of Tohoku, The Central Philippines, for The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Bishop Binsted, acting for the Presiding Bishop of PECUSA (Henry Knox Sherril), assisted by Bishop Robert Franklin Wilner (Suffragan Bishop of the Missionary District of the Philippines) and Bishop Harry Sherbourne Kennedy (Bishop of the Missionary District of Honolulu, Hawaii), consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate on 7 April 1948: Isabelo de los Reyes, Jr (1900 1971) as Obispo Maximo of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (being elected to this office in 1946). Obispo Maximo de los Reyes, assisted by Bishop Manuel N. Aguilar and Bishop Alejandro Remollino (Iglesia Filipina Independiente) consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate on 22 September 1957:
Francisco de Jesus Pagtakhan (1916 ) as Bishop of Zambales in Maria Clara Christ Church, Manila. Bishop Pagtakhan was elevated to the office of Archbishop of the Cagayan Valley and The Americas, and appointed Archbishop Secretary for Missions, Ecumenical Relations and Foreign Affairs on 8 May 1984.
Archbishop Pagtakhan, assisted by Archbishop Emile Federico Rodriguez y Fairfield (Primate, Iglesia Ortodoxa Catolica Apostolica Mexicana) and Bishop Paul G. W. Schultz (Bishop of Los Angeles, The Philippine Independent Catholic Church in the Americas), consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate sub conditione on 15 June 1988:
Nils Bertil Alexander Persson (11/10/41 ) as Missionary General for Scandinavia and All Europe for the Iglesia Filipina Independiente. Archbishop Persson, assisted by Archbishop Emile Federico Rodrigues y Fairfield (Iglesia Ortodoxa Catolica Apostolica Mexicana), Bishop Carroll T. Lowery (The Apostolic Episcopal Church), Archbishop Arthur J. Garrow (The Archiepiscopate Ordinariate of Healing Arts Missionaries & Chaplains in America) and Bishop Howard D. van Orden (Order of St. Jude; Archbishop of Albuquerque and Dependencies, The Philippine Independent Catholic Church in The Americas), each assisting, coöperating and co consecrating by laying on hands and uttering all the words of consecration; and assisted in this consecration as Co Consecrators by Archbishop Paul Christian Gerald W. Schultz (Archbishop of Los Angeles; Administrator of The Philippine Independent Catholic Church in The Americas; and Apostolic Administrator in the USA of The Apostolic Episcopal Church), Bishop Petros (Eric Tan Ong Veloso, Orthodox Catholic Church in The Philippines), Bishop Christopher J. Rogers (Suffragan Bishop of Los Angeles, The Philippine Independent Catholic Church in The Americas), and Bishop Marciel (Michael Marshall, Orthodox Old Catholic Church), consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate on 5 August 1989:
Karl Julius Barwin (10/16/1943 ) as Primate of The Evangelical Catholic Church. Bishop Karl J. Barwin did consecrated to the episcopate on May 12, 1990
George Augustus Stallings, Jr. Patriarch and Archbishop of the African American Catholic Congregation, who consecrated
Carlos Enrique Harvin Bishop in 1996 for the African American Catholic Congregation. Bishop Harvin consecrated on January 18, 2004
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Frederick “Francis-Maria” Salvato, O.S.F.
The Apostolic Society of Franciscan Communities
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2006
James M. Long
Presiding Archbishop, United States Independent Catholic Church
Consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2008
Bryan T. Marabanian
Presiding Bishop, American Apostolic Church
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate,sub conditione, in 2009
William J. M. Smith, OSB
Abbot Bishop of the Order of Saint Benedict of the American Apostolic Church
The Apostolic Succession from The Russian Orthodox Church (Russkaya Pravoslavnaya Tserkov)
In the ninth century the Rus (or Varangians) became masters of what is now western Russia and the indigenous Slavic population. Their chief centers of population were Novgorod, in the north, and Kiev, in the south (now part of the Ukraine). This ruling minority of mostly Swedish Vikings soon adopted the Slavonic tongue and customs of their subjects.
Tradition credits Saint Andrew The First-Called with planting the seeds of Christianity in the area about Kiev. These seeds were nurtured by the ministry of Saints Cyril & Methodius, now known as the Apostles of the Slaves, in The Ukraine beginning in AD 864, using the native language. They invented a Slavic alphabet (based upon the Greek), which is still used today. The north shore of The Black Sea had been settled by Christians at least as early as the fourth century. The Khazars, rulers of what is now southern Russia, had adopted Judaism. However, the missionary efforts supported by Patriarch Photius of Constantinople to the Khazars were so successful that they soon asked for a Bishop of their own. Just a few years later Emperor Basil I ("The Macedonian") and Patriarch Ignatius commissioned a missionary Bishop to the Russians, who made many converts.
The first known Christian ruler over the Kievan State is Saint Olga (Olha), dowager regent, who received Christian baptism in AD 950. Although she sent to Emperor Otto I of Germany for missionaries, they seemed to have had no marked success. It is Saint Vladimir (Volodymyr The Great), the grandson of St. Olga, who accepted baptism himself about AD 986 and then in AD 988 commanded the Christianization of his entire State, who is recognized as having initiated the conversion of Russia. Although St. Vladimir received delegates from The Pope and sent representatives to Rome, it was The Church of Constantinople which won his support. At the time of his death, in AD 1015, there were three bishoprics in his domains; based upon the foundations laid by St. Vladimir, Christianity continued its gradual, steady spread throughout Russia. The Metropolitan of Kiev, for centuries the administrative head of The Russian Church, was appointed by the Patriarch of Constantinople; he was usually a Greek, unfamiliar with The Faithful of Russia. The clergy were poorly trained and almost always too few for the size of the country. The priests were chosen by their parishioners, while the bishops (a substantial minority of whom were also foreigners with little understanding of the customs or language of their flocks) were selected by the local princes.
The establishment of an independent Russian Church coincided with the decline of The Byzantine Empire, and the simultaneous rise of The Russian Empire. This process was helped when Kiev was destroyed during the Tartar invasion, and the Metropolitan consequently forced to move to Moscow (AD 1320). After the Grand Duke of Moscow (Ivan III) married a daughter of the nearest relative of the last Emperor of Constantinople, he claimed to be the legitimate successor of the Byzantine Emperors. He even adopted the double headed eagle, symbol of Imperial Byzantine power. Later, beginning in AD 1547, the princes of the Russian State, as successors of the Byzantine Emperors, began calling themselves Czar (i.e., "Caesar"). It was only natural that they would seek the prestige of a self governing independent Church in order
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to bolster their own temporal claims. Although the Russian Church claimed autocephaly from AD 1448, when the Russian Bishops began electing their own Primate (the Metropolitan of Moscow), official recognition of this independence by the ancient and historic patriarchates was not secured until AD 1590 (one year after Jeremiah II, Patriarch of Constantinople, was persuaded to invest Iob, the 46th Metropolitan of Moscow, as the first Russian Patriarch although Iob had been promoted to the rank of Patriarch by the Russian Bishops in AD 1453) at a meeting in Constantinople of all the Patriarchs of the historic Sees. When Constantinople fell to the Moslems on 29 May 1453, Russia became the only nation where the freedom of The Orthodox Church remained unrestricted; this favorably influenced their claim for an independent Patriarchate.
The Time of Troubles (civil war) which began in AD 1598 upon the death of Czar Fedor (Theodore), the childless son of Ivan IV, increased the Patriarch's political influence. It reached its height under Patriarch Filaret, whose son, Michael, at the age of sixteen, became the first Czar of the Romanov Dynasty. When Patriarch Adrian died in AD 1700, Czar Peter The Great refused to allow the election of a new Patriarch, leaving Stefan Iavorskii as Locum Tenens for 21 years. In AD 1721 Czar Peter finally promulgated a new constitution for The Church, which suspended the office of Patriarch and placed the governance of The Church under an Holy Synod.
Copying the example of King Henry VIII of England, the government imposed new Church constitution made The Czar the Head of The Church of Russia. It went further than King Henry, however, by providing for a Lay Procurator (a government official) to administer The Church's day-to-day affairs. This "constitutional" subjugation of The Church to the Russian State established the precedent of direct governmental control over and interference in all the affairs of The Russian Orthodox Church -- a practice continued until the end of the 20th century by the atheistical government of the U.S.S.R.
After the overthrow of Czar Nikolai II in March of AD 1917, The Russian Orthodox Church immediately convened a national Sobor to reform The Church and revive the Patriarchate of Moscow, which Czar Peter The Great had suspended. Metropolitan Tikhon, who had earlier been Russian Archbishop in America, won the election and assumed the office of Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia in November of that year, almost simultaneously with the outbreak of the Communist Revolution. This All-Russian Council (Sobor) attempted to restore sobornost the active participation of the whole Church (bishops, clergy, and laity) in every aspect of the Church's life, in contrast to the bureaucratic centralization which had ruled The Church under the secular and often hostile government of Russia since the creation of The Holy Synod by Czar Peter The Great.
The new reäctionary Communist government of Russia immediately placed severe restrictions upon the revitalized and reforming Church of Russia. In view of the vigorous anti religion activities of the new Russian government, Patriarch Tikhon issued a statement in AD 1917 urging The Russian Faithful to act independently to preserve The Church. Some of the Bishops of The Russian Church attempted to heed The Patriarch's advice by establishing a separate independent Church administration in southeastern Russia. The advance of the Bolsheviks, however, forced these faithful shepherds into exile.
In November of 1920 these refugee Bishops organized The Supreme Church Administration for Churches Outside of Russia in Istanbul (Constantinople), with the approval of The Öcumenical Patriarch. At the invitation of The Patriarch of Serbia, The Supreme Church Administration moved to Yugoslavia. Twelve of these Bishops, with representatives of the clergy and laity, organized a Sobor at Sremski Karlovtsi, Yugoslavia, on 21 November to 2 December 1921, under the presidency of Anthony Khrapovitski, Metropolitan of Kiev and Galich and under the canonical authority of an ukase (i.e., an Edict having the force of law) issued in
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AD 1920 by Patriarch Tikhon. The result of this meeting was the organization of The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, sometimes called The Synodal Church.
Patriarch Tikhon, who vigorously opposed the inhumane and atheistic policies of the revolutionary regime, was cruelly imprisoned on 9 May 1922. The Communists refused to permit an election for his successor when he died in AD 1925. Metropolitan Petr of Krutica became Locum Tenes (Patriarchal Vicar), but he, too, was almost immediately imprisoned. He was succeeded later that year by Sergii, the Metropolitan of Nizhni Novgorod, who tried to make peace with the new Soviet government. Although he suffered temporary imprisonment (December AD 1926 to April 1927), he issued a declaration in July of AD 1927 changing The Church's official stance towards the Communist government from one of hostility to one of praise and coöperation. Outside observers have called this declaration of The Metropolitan either the great betrayal or the great salvation of The Russian Church. The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia naturally disapproved of the coöperation between the Patriarchal Church and the atheistic Communist government in Russia, as first formulated in the letters issued by Metropolitan (later Patriarch) Sergii in AD 1926 and AD 1927. Because of the inappropriate influence seemingly exercised by the anti religious government of Russia, The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia refused to recognize The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia in any way on the grounds that the Communist government completely controlled the patriarchate. With the invasion of Mother Russia by the Nazis (Russia's former ally in the partition of Poland at the beginning of World War II), the political climate changed in Moscow. Metropolitan Sergii urged The faithful to sincerely support the Russian war effort against the Nazis; he issued calls to arms, organized fund raising rallies, and did everything possible to ensure the protection of his people and the defense of The Church. By 1 October 1944 The Church had donated 150,000,000 rubles, as well as gifts "in kind," to the Communist government. These many sacrifices and contributions for Russia gained him the favorable attention of the then current Communist Dictator, Josef Stalin, who finally granted the Metropolitan's request for new patriarchal elections. Sergii was elected Patriarch on 7 September 1943; he unfortunately died within sixmonths. After that The Kremlin permitted subsequent elections within a year of each vacancy and had made The Orthodox Church of Russia one of the few officially recognized Christian organizations in the Soviet Union -- following the precedent established by Czar Peter The Great. The Sobor to elect the new Patriarch was held 31 January to 2 February 1945. The Patriarch of Alexandria, Patriarch of Antioch, and the Catholicos of Georgia attended this Sobor, together with 44 Russian Bishops, 126 clergy, and representatives of the laity. The Sobor elected Alexis as the new Russian Patriarch. They thus established a "working model" for the other European Communist countries to follow in dealing with Religion. However, all other potential national Orthodox jurisdictions within the then U.S.S.R., with the exception of the ancient and historic patriarchates of Armenia and Georgia, were merged into the Moscow Patriarchate, as were some Eastern Rite Roman Catholics and many other Christian jurisdictions and sects. The Orthodox Church of Russia has been increasingly active in international Orthodox and ecumenical affairs during the last few decades of the 20th Century. She has been particularly vocal before the World Council of Churches and elsewhere in encouraging anti nuclear and anti war movements throughout the world. The Primate of The Church of Russia bears the title: Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia. The official language of The Church is naturally Russian. Metropolitan Antonii became the first head of The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, with his Seat at Geneva, Switzerland. He was succeeded in AD 1936 by Metropolitan Anastasii (who died in AD 1965), who was followed on his retirement by Metropolitan Filaret, in 1964. The chief See of the Metropolitan was moved during World War II to Munich, Germany, and in AD 1952 to New York City. Since then The Synodal Church has attracted The Faithful from other exiled jurisdictions, particularly those with origins in the formerly communist controlled nations of eastern European. The recent collapse of
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communism has not resulted in any rapproachment between the exile jurisdictions and their mother churches.......yet. With the Moscow Patriarchate's vigorous pursuit of the return of Church property in foreign lands which has been administered since the Communist Revolution in Russia by The Synodal Church, the rift between the Synodal Church and the Moscow Patriarchate may never be healed
Apostolic Succession from the Russian Orthodox Church through Saint Peter
Bishop Aleksij (Sergiy Vladimirovich Simanskij, 1877 1970) was consecrated 28 April 1913 by Patriarch Gregorios IV of The Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All The East in Russia as Bishop of Tichvin. In 1945 he was elected Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia. Patriarch Aleksij, assisted by Metropolitan Nikolaj (Boris Dorofeevic Jaruevic), Archbishop Makarij (Sergej Konstantinovic Daev), Archbishop Jurij (Vjaeslav Michaijlovic Egorov), Bishop Aleksij (Viktor Aleksandrovic Konoplev) and Bishop Pimen (Sergij Izvekov), consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop John (Konstantin Nikolaevich Wendland, 1909 1989), Patriarchal Exarch of The Russian Orthodox Church in America, on 28 December 1958. On 3 August 1963 Bishop John became Metropolitan of The Russian Orthodox Church in America. He was recalled to Russia on 10 July 1967. Metropolitan John, assisted by Bishop Dositheus (Michail Ivanchenko of The Russian Orthodox Church in America), consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Joseph (Joseph John Skureth, 01/08/1933 ), as Exarch, The Western Orthodox Catholic Church in America, Exarchate of The Patriarchates of Moscow and Antioch (a Western Rite body within The Russian Orthodox Church in America) on 17 April 1966. Bishop Dosifej (Dositheus/Michail Ivanchenko) had ordained Bp. Joseph priest on 3 July 1963. Exarch Joseph is also affiliated with The Syrian Antiochian Orthodox Church. Bishop Joseph, assisted by Archbishop Francisco de Jesus Pagtakhan (The Philippine Independent Catholic Church, Manila) and Bishop Lawrence Lee Shaver (The Philippine Independent Catholic Church in The Americas), consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Archbishop Nils Bertil Alexander Persson
Archbishop of Scandinavia, Igreja Catolica Apostolica Brasileira assisted by Abp. Emile Federico Rodriguez y Fairfield, Abp. Paul G. W. Schultz, Bishop Christopher Rogers, Bishop Carroll Lowery, Exarch Howard D. van Orden, Archbishop Arthur Garrow, Bishop Petros (Eric Veloso), Bishop Michael Marshal Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 5 August 1989: Bishop Karl Julius Barwin
Primate, The Evangelical Catholic Church. Bishop Karl J. Barwin did consecrated to the episcopate on May 12, 1990
George Augustus Stallings, Jr. Patriarch and Archbishop of the African American Catholic Congregation, who consecrated Carlos Enrique Harvin Bishop in 1996 for the African American Catholic Congregation. Bishop Harvin consecrated on January 18, 2004
Frederick “Francis-Maria” Salvato, O.S.F.
The Apostolic Society of Franciscan Communities Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2006
James M. Long
Presiding Archbishop, United States Independent Catholic Church Consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2008
Bryan T. Marabanian
Presiding Bishop, American Apostolic Church Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate,sub conditione, in 2009
William J. M. Smith, OSB
Abbot Bishop of the Order of Saint Benedict of the American Apostolic Church
Apostolic Succession from The Russian Orthodox Church through Saint Andrew
Bishop Makarij (Michael Nevskij, 1835 02/16/26) was consecrated in 1884 by Bishop Nikon of The Russian Orthodox Church. He was elected Archbishop in 1906 and served as Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomenskoe from 1912 1917. Bishop Makarij consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
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Bishop Evdokim (Basil Michaelovic Meschersky, 1869 1935) as Vicar Bishop, Diocese of Moscow, on 4 January 1904. Bishop Evdokim became the Archbishop of The North American Diocese of The Russian Orthodox Church in 1914. Archbishop Evdokim consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Aftimios (Abdullah Ofiesh, 1880 1966) as Bishop of Brooklyn on 13 May 1917. Bishop Aftimios became Archbishop of The Syrian Orthodox Mission of The North American Diocese of The Russian Orthodox Church in 1923. Archbishop Aftimios consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Sophronios (Sophronios Bishara, 1888 1940) as Bishop of Los Angeles on 26 May 1928, assisted by Elias, Metropolitan of Tyre and Sidon (The Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All The East) and Bishop Emmanuel (Rizkallah Abo Hatab, The Syrian Orthodox Mission of The North American Diocese of The Russian Orthodox Church). Bishop Sophronios became Archbishop of The Syrian Orthodox Mission of The North American Diocese of The Russian Orthodox Church in 1933. Archbishop Sophronios consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Chrysostomos (John M. More Moreno, + 1958), assisted by Archbishop Exarch Benjamin (Ioann Athenasievich Fedchenkov of The North American Diocese of The Russian Orthodox Church, in November of 1933. Bishop Chrysostomos became the Ruling Bishop of The Holy Eastern Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church in North America . Bishop Chrysostomos consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate: Mar Nikolaus (Perry Nikolaus Cedarholm, 05/18/1890 08/06/1979) as Bishop of Brooklyn and Staten Island for The Apostolic Episcopal Church, assisted by Rev'd Fr. David Leondarides, The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, on 6 December 1949. Mar Nikolaus returned to Sweden in 1951 and was acknowledged as a Bishop by the Church of Sweden. He was enthroned as Bishop of Scandinavia for The Apostolic Episcopal Church in 1953 by Bishop Herman Philippus Abbinga of the Osterns Apostoliske Episkopale Kirke. In 1969 he assumed the position of Archbishop of The Apostolic Episcopal Church. Mar Nikolaus consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate: Mar Alexander (Nils Bertil Alexander Persson, 11/10/1941 ) as Titular Bishop of Smyrna on 12 December 1971. Mar Alexander succeeded Archbishop Nikolaus (Cedarholm) as Archbishop of Scandinavia of The Apostolic Episcopal Church on 22 July 1977. He was enthroned as Primate of The Apostolic Episcopal Church by Archbishop Wallace David de Ortega Maxey on 7 November 1986. Archbishop Persson also serves as the Missionary General for Scandinavia and All Europe for both the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (Philippine Independent Catholic Church, confirmed 15 June 1988; this is a member jurisdiction of The Anglican Communion) and the Igreja Católica Apostólica Brasiliera (Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church, confirmed 14 June 1987). Archbishop Persson consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate: Bishop Karl Julius Barwin Primate, The Evangelical Catholic Church. Bishop Karl J. Barwin did consecrated to the episcopate on May 12, 1990
George Augustus Stallings, Jr. Patriarch and Archbishop of the African American Catholic Congregation, who consecrated Carlos Enrique Harvin Bishop in 1996 for the African American Catholic Congregation. Bishop Harvin consecrated on January 18, 2004
Frederick “Francis Maria” Salvato, O.S.F.
The Apostolic Society of Franciscan Communities Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2006
James M. Long
Presiding Archbishop, United States Independent Catholic Church Consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2008
Bryan T. Marabanian
Presiding Bishop, American Apostolic Church Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate, sub conditione, in 2009
William J. M. Smith, OSB
Abbot Bishop of the Order of Saint Benedict of the American Apostolic Church
Apostolic Succession from The Russian Orthodox Church through Archbishop Theophanies Fan Stylian Noli
Bishop Makarij (Michael Nevskij, 1835 02/16/26) was consecrated in 1884 by Bishop Nikon of The Russian Orthodox Church. He was elected Archbishop in 1906 and served as Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomenskoe from 1912 1917. Archbishop Makarij (Macarius) consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate: Bishop Evdokim (Basil Michaelovic Meschersky, 1869 1935) as Vicar Bishop, Diocese of Moscow, on 4 January 1904. Bishop Evdokim became Archbishop of Alaska and North America for The Russian Orthodox Church in 1914. Archbishop Evdokim consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
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Bishop Aftimios (Abdullah Ofiesh, 1880 1966) as Bishop of Brooklyn on 13 May 1917, assisted by Bishop Stephen Alexander Dzubay of Pittsburgh and Bishop Alexander Alexandrovich Nemolovksy, Bishop of Canada. Bishop Aftimios became Archbishop of The Syrian Orthodox Mission of The North American Diocese of The Russian Orthodox Church in 1923. In 1927, urged on by the chaotic conditions in Russia, the canonical Russian Patriarchial Bishops in the U.S.A. acted upon instructions and advice issued earlier by Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow, and emphasized by his successor, the Locum Tenens (Sergius), and Commissioned Bishop Aftimios to be Archbishop and to found and head an autocephalous American Orthodox Catholic Church. Archbishop Aftimios consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Sophronios (Sophronios Bishara, 1888 1940) as Bishop of Los Angeles on 26 May 1928, assisted by Elias, Metropolitan of Tyre and Sidon (The Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All The East) and Bishop Emmanuel (Rizkallah Abo Hatab, The Syrian Orthodox Mission of The North American Diocese of The Russian Orthodox Church). Bishop Sophronios became Archbishop of The Syrian Orthodox Mission of The North American Diocese of The Russian Orthodox Church in 1933. Archbishop Sophronios consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Christopher Kontogiorgios (Contogeorge; 1894 8/30/50) on 10 February 1934 at St. John the Baptist Church in New York City, assisting Theophanies Fan Stylian Noli, Archbishop of The Albanian Orthodox Diocese in America (consecrated 4 December 1923 in St. George's Cathedral in Korcha, Albania, by Metropolitan Kristofor Kissi [Bishop of Syradon] and Metropolitan Hierotheos [Andon Yahd, Bishop of Korcha & Plenipotentiary Exarch of the Patriarchate of Constantinople] as Metropolitan of Durazzo, Gora & Shpata; Primate & Exarch of All Illyria, of the Western Sea & of all Albania; 1924: President of Albania) as Metropolitan of Pentapoleos. Bishop Kontogiorgios was appointed Exarch of the Greek Orthodox Catholic Church under the Patriarchate of Alexandria in 1947. Exarch Kontogiorgios consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Archbishop Konstantin Jaroshevich in 1949, assisted by Archbishop Arsenios Saltas (consecrated 25 August 1934 by Abp. Kontogiorgios and Abp. Theophan Noli) and with the blessing and concurrence of Metropolitan Theophan Noli. In 1954 Abp. Jaroshevich was appointed Exarch of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa in the United States. Archbishop Jaroschevich consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Peter Andreas Zhurawetsky (12/07/01 1994) in Sts. Peter and Paul Russian Orthodox Church of Springfield, Massachusetts, on 15 October 1950, assisting Patriarch Joseph Klimovich (of the American Holy Orthodox Catholic Eastern Church; Ptr. Klimovich was consecrated 14 October 1930 by Constantine Kuryllo of the Ruthenian Orthodox Church) together with Metropolitan Nicholas Bohatyretz (of the Ukrainians in the Orthodox Catholic Church in America; Met. Bohatyretz was consecrated 16 November 1913 by Bp. Paulo Louis Prota Guirleo Miraglia Gulotti, Bishop of Piacenza of the Italian National Episcopal Church), Metropolitan Joseph Zielonka (Polish Old Catholic Church of America and Europe) and Bishop Peter M. Williamowich (consecrated by Met. Fan Noli), as Suffragan Bishop, The Polish Old Catholic Church. In December 1960 Bp. Zhurawetsky succeeded Metropolitan Zielonka and immediately changed the name of this jurisdiction to Christ Catholic Church of the Americas and Europe, and taking the name of Peter II. In 1978, His Beatitude, Pope Nikolaus VII of Alexandria and All Africa wrote a letter recognizing Abp. Petros Zhurawetsky as a canonical Orthodox bishop. Patriarch Peter II consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate: Bishop Robert Gerald John Schulyer Zeiger (01/01/29 1998) in the Russian Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity and St. Olga, New Brunswick, New Jersey, on 1 July 1961, assisted by Primate Hubert Augustus Rogers, Bishop Julian Lester Smith, and Bishop James Hubert Rogers (all of The North American Old Roman Catholic Church) as Bishop for The Orthodox Catholic Patriarchate of America. He later left Ptr. Zhurawetsky's jurisdiction in 1961 and founded the American Orthodox Catholic Church. In 1964 he resigned as Primate of that jurisdiction while remaining Archbishop Metropolitan of Denver. On 10 August 1976, Abp. Zeiger was consecrated at St. Paul's Monastery, La Porte, Indiana, by Abp/Primate Joseph John Skureth (Western Orthodox Catholic Church) assisted by Bishop Joseph Gabriel Sokolowski, O.S.B. (Abbot General, St. Paul's Monastery, La Porte, Indiana; consecrated 16 March 1970 by Abp. Joseph John Skureth & Bp. Frank Blevins). Abp. Zeiger consecrated sub conditione to the Sacred Episcopate: Bishop Andre Leon Zotique Barbeau (11/22/12 2/14/94) on 8 August 1976, assisted by Bishop Gordon Albert Da Costa (Anglican Church of the Americas; consecrated 19 June 1971 by Bp. Benjamin C. Eckardt of the Free Protestant Episcopal Church, assisted by Bp. Charles Kennedy Samuel Steward Moffat and Bp. Albert J. Fuge). He was earlier consecrated on 14 May 1968 at the Pro Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Mirabel, Quebec, Canada, by Bp. Charles Brearley (Old Holy Catholic Church; consecrated 16 June 1954 by Marziano II, Basileus of Constantinople and of All the Christian Orient {Prince de Deols, Alessandro Licastro de la Chastre Grimaldi Lascaris}, claimant to the throne of the Holy Roman Empire of the Orient as the 269th Emperor) and later on 26 July 1973 by Bishop Garry Robert Armstrong (Liberal Catholic Church International; consecrated 8 October 1972 by Bp. William Henry Daw of the Liberal Catholic Church International). He was further consecrated sub conditione on 19 August 1976 by Abp. Josef Maria Thiesen (Alt Roemisch Katholische Kirche in Germany; consecrated 17 April 1949 by Bp. Aloysius Stumpfl) and on 12/12/76 s.c. at the Cite de Marie, Mirabel, Quebec, Canada by Bp. George Bellemare (Eglise Universelle de la Nouvelle Alliance; consecrated 7 July 1975 by Bp. Roger Caro, assisted by Bp. Maurice Auberger and Bp.
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Patrick LeBar). Patriarch Barbeau consecrated sub conditione to the Sacred Episcopate:
Archbishop Leonard J. Curreri (07/27/46 ) on 30 July 1977 at Mirabel, Quebec, Canada, assisted by Archbishop Rainer Laufer (Old Holy Catholic Church of Canada; Abp. Laufer was consecrated 18 November 1975 by: Bp. Charles Brearley of The Old Holy Catholic Church; Abp. Andre LeTellier, Titular Archbishop of Hippo and Archbishop Coadjutor of Montreal, Canada, Catholic Charismatic Church of Canada; and Bp. Jean Marie Breault, Titular Bishop of Bethlehem and Auxiliary Bishop of Montreal, Catholic Charismatic Church of Canada), as Primate of The Tridentine Catholic Church. Abp. Curreri was first consecrated at Holy Cross Polish Catholic Church, New York City, on 23 April 1977 by Bp. Francis Joseph Ryan (Ecumenical Orthodox Catholic Church Autocephalous; Bp. Ryan was consecrated in 1965 by Ptr. Udladyslau Ryzy Ryski), assisted by Bp. Holmes Bennett Dayhoff (Tridentine Catholic Church) and Bp. John Basilo (American Orthodox Catholic Church; Bp. Basilo was consecrated by Walter Myron Propheta). Archbishop Curreri consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Peter Paul Brennan (1941 ) on 10 June 1978 at Our Lady Queen of Heaven Church, Long Island, New York, assisting Bishop Richard Thomas McFarland (African Orthodox Church). He was consecrated sub conditione on 4 October 1979 by Archbishop Leonard J. Curreri (Tridentine Catholic Church), assisted by Archbishop Peter James G. Grazeloa (American National Catholic Church) and Bp. Holmes Bennett Dayhoff. In 1984 Abp. Brennan became head of the Ecumenical Catholic Diocese of the Americas based in West Hempstead, New York. Abp. Brennan consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Howard D. van Orden ((1938 ) on 14 October 1984, assisting Bp. Patrick J. Callahan (Old Roman Catholic Church Utrecht Succession; Bp. Callahan was consecrated on 17 April 1984 by Abp. Emile Federico Rodriguez y Fairfield and Abp. Paul G. W. Schultz) as Bishop of The Western Rite Orthodox Catholic Church of Jesus in St. Stephen's Orthodox Catholic Church of Savannah, Georgia. Bishop van Orden consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Karl Julius Barwin
Primate, the Evangelical Catholic Church. Bishop Karl J. Barwin did consecrated to the episcopate on May 12, 1990
George Augustus Stallings, Jr. Patriarch and Archbishop of the African American Catholic Congregation, who consecrated Carlos Enrique Harvin Bishop in 1996 for the African American Catholic Congregation. Bishop Harvin consecrated on January 18, 2004
Frederick “Francis-Maria” Salvato, O.S.F.
The Apostolic Society of Franciscan Communities
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2006
James M. Long
Presiding Archbishop, United States Independent Catholic Church Consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2008
Bryan T. Marabanian
Presiding Bishop, American Apostolic Church
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate, sub conditione, in 2009
William J. M. Smith, OSB
Abbot Bishop of the Order of Saint Benedict of the American Apostolic Church
Bishop Makarij (Michael Nevskij, 1835 02/16/26) was consecrated in 1884 by Bishop Nikon of The Russian Orthodox Church. He was elected Archbishop in 1906 and served as Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomenskoe from 1912 1917. Archbishop Makarij (Macarius) consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Evdokim (Basil Michaelovic Meschersky, 1869 1935) as Vicar Bishop, Diocese of Moscow, on 4 January 1904. Bishop Evdokim became Archbishop of Alaska and North America for The Russian Orthodox Church in 1914. Archbishop Evdokim consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Aftimios (Abdullah Ofiesh, 1880 1966) as Bishop of Brooklyn on 13 May 1917, assisted by Bishop Stephen Alexander Dzubay of Pittsburgh and Bishop Alexander Alexandrovich Nemolovksy, Bishop of Canada. Bishop Aftimios became Archbishop of The Syrian Orthodox Mission of The North American Diocese of The Russian Orthodox Church in 1923. In 1927, urged on by the chaotic conditions in Russia, the canonical Russian Patriarchial Bishops in the U.S.A. acted upon instructions and advice issued earlier by Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow, and emphasized by his successor, the Locum Tenens (Sergius), and Commissioned Bishop Aftimios to be Archbishop and to found and head an autocephalous American Orthodox Catholic Church. Archbishop Aftimios consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Joseph A. Zuk (? 2/23/34) was consecrated on 7 February 1932 by Bp. Aftimios (Abdullah Ofiesh; Holy Eastern Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church in North America), assisted by Bp. Sophronios Bishara
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Apostolic Succession from The Russian Orthodox Church through Bishop Joseph A. Zuk (William Propheta Succession)
(Bishop of Los Angeles) as Assistant Bishop of The Holy Eastern Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church in North America with special oversight over The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of America. The ecclesiastical jurisdiction of these bishops (Ofiesh, Bishara & Zuk) is believed by many to be the sole canonical successor of The Russian Orthodox jurisdiction established for North America by way of Alaska in 1763 under Canon Law (Council of Chalcedon, 453 A.D.); thus this jurisdiction would be the only lawful (i.e., canonical) Orthodox jurisdiction in the U.S.A. Bishop Zuk consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate: William Albert Nichols (12/4/1867 2/6/1947) on 27 September 1932, together with Bp. Sophronios Bishara, assisting Abp. Aftimios (Abdullah Ofiesh). Bishop Nichols took the ecclesiastical name of Ignatius. Against canon law and Church tradition, Bp. Ignatius (Nichols) married in June of 1933, for which he was formally removed from Office by Bp. Bishara. Upon the death of both Bp. Bishara and Bp. Zuk in 1934, Bp. Nichols assumed leadership of part of The Holy Eastern Orthodox and Apostolic Church in North America, officially incorporating it in the State of New York on 16 March 1936 under the name: The Holy Orthodox Church in America. This newly incorporated jurisdiction also included the former Anglican Universal Church of Christ in the United States of America (Chaldean), which allowed married bishops and was headed by Abp. George Winslow Plummer. Ignatius, Archbishop of Washington, D.C., consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate: George Winslow Plummer (8/25/1876 1/23/1944) on 8 May 1934, assisted by Bishop Ambrosius (Maitland Raines of The Russian Orthodox Church; consecrated by Bp. Alexander Vvedensky) and took the ecclesiastical name of Mar Georgius. Mar Georgius consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate: Stanislaus de Witow (born Stanislaus Witowski; 2/9/1890 4/1969) on 29 November 1936, assisted by Abp. Ignatius (William Albert Nichols) and Bishop Irenaeus (Henry van Arsdale Parsell; consecrated 19 September 1920 by Bp Manuel Ferrando of the Reformed Episcopal Church assisted by Mar Georgius/Plummer) and took the ecclesiastical name Theodotus. Bp. Theodotus became head of The Holy Orthodox Church in America on 14 April 1951 succeeding Abp/Primate Roy C. Toombs (who had succeeded Mar Georgius on 23 January 1944). Abp. Theodotus consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate: Walter Myron Propheta (1912 10/8/1972) in Springfield, Massachusetts, on 3 October 1964, assisting Ptr. Joachim Souris of the True Orthodox Church of Greece (consecrated 2 June 1951 by Ptr. Joseph Klimovicz of the American Holy Orthodox Catholic Eastern Church, assisted by Ptr. Peter A. Zhurawetsky, Bp. Jozef Zielonka, and Bp. Clement I {John Cyril Sherwood}). On 30 March1965 he was elevated to Archbishop by Abp. Theodotus and Bishop Theoklitus Kantaris (Bishop of the Greek Orthodox Diocese of New York , consecrated by Makarios III, Archbishop/Primate of Cyprus), and took the ecclesiastical name of Patriarch Woldymyr I. Ptr. Woldymyr I consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate: John Arthur Christian (Chiasson; born: John Christofer Saison; ? 12/25/1984) on 31 July 1966, assisted by Abp. Theodotus (Stanislaus De Witow). He was elected to succeed Ptr. Woldymyr I at a Synod of The American Orthodox Catholic Church on 18 November 1972, taking the ecclesiastical name of Christian I. Ptr. Christian I consecrated sub conditione to the Sacred Episcopate: Harold James Donovan (? 3/18/1996) in Chicago, Illinois, on 4 July 1982, at the request of the Holy Synod of The Holy Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Church in the Philippines, taking the ecclesiastical name of Mar Aftimios II. He had been previously consecrated on 16 March 1980 as Missionary Bishop for this jurisdiction by Bp. Tirso Cinco Noble, assisted by Bp. Miguel Pestano Borja, Bp. Joel T. Borja, and Bp. Urbano A. Blanco (all Bishops within The Holy Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Church in the Philippines). In co operation with Ptr. Christian I, Mar Aftimios II created an Exarchy in January 1983 of the Philippine Church later known as: The American Orthodox Church. Mar Aftimios II was consecrated sub conditione on 19 January 1987 by Bishop Primate Forest Ernest Barber of the Holy Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Church in the Philippines (a part of the Igreja Catolica Apostolica Brasileira) assisted by Metropolitan Mark (Senen C. Bordeos) of the Holy Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Church in the Philippines, based in Los Banos. Mar Aftimios II consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Eric Tan Ong Veloso on 12 March 1989 in The Holy Guardian Angels Chapel, Glendale, California, assisted by Abp. Paul G. W. Schultz (Archbishop of Los Angeles and Administrator of The Philippine Independent Catholic Church in the Americas). Bp. Veloso had been previously consecrated on 30 October 1988 in Our Mother of Perpetual Help Orthodox Catholic Church of Los Angeles, California, by Abp. Howard D. van Orden, assisted by Bp. Jack London Mette (of the Catholic Apostolic Church in North America/Patriarchate of Brazil; consecrated by: Abp. de Ortega Maxey; Bp. Raymond Eugene Hefner; Ptr. Francis Jerome Joachim; Bp. Charles David Luther) and Bp. Carroll T. Lowery, for the Orthodox Catholic Church in The Philippines, taking the ecclesiastical name of Mar Petros. Mar Petros consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Karl Julius Barwin Primate, The Evangelical Catholic Church. Bishop Karl J. Barwin did consecrated to the episcopate on May 12, 1990:
George Augustus Stallings, Jr. Patriarch and Archbishop of the African American Catholic Congregation, who consecrated
Carlos Enrique Harvin Bishop in 1996 for the African American Catholic Congregation. Bishop Harvin consecrated on January 18, 2004
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Frederick “Francis-Maria” Salvato, O.S.F.
The Apostolic Society of Franciscan Communities
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2006
James M. Long
Presiding Archbishop, United States Independent Catholic Church
Consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2008 Bryan T. Marabanian
Presiding Bishop, American Apostolic Church
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate, sub conditione, in 2009 William J. M. Smith, OSB
Abbot Bishop of the Order of Saint Benedict of the American Apostolic Church
The Apostolic Succession from The Armenian Church (The Armenian Apostolic Church)
The origins of The Church of Armenia are traced to The First Enlighteners of Armenia, two of the Twelve Apostles: St. Thaddeus (martyred in 66 A.D. in Armenia) and St. Bartholomew (martyred in 68 A.D. in Armenia). It is St. Gregory, however, who is credited with converting first King Tiridates of Armenia to Christianity and then the whole Armenian nation. The Kingdom of Armenia was the first nation to become Christian in the whole world.
Soon after the King's conversion, St. Gregory was consecrated a Bishop. In obedience to a vision from Our Lord, Bishop Gregory built the first Christian Cathedral in the world in 303 A.D. with the support of the King. This cathedral was built in Vagharshapat, the capital of Armenia, not far from Mt. Ararat. In memory of the vision from our Lord to build this cathedral, the cathedral was named Holy Etchmiadzin (i. e., the place where The Only Begotten Descended). Holy Etchmiadzin is still the official Seat of the head of the Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church.
The Church of Armenia participated in the First Ecumenical Council at Nicea (325 A.D.), with St. Aristakes, the younger son of St. Gregory the Enlightener, representing his ailing father. The Patriarch of Armenia was the first to use the title Catholicos, a practice since adopted by many neighboring jurisdictions in the Near East.
In 485 A.D. the Seat of the Armenian Catholicos was moved from Holy Etchmiadzin to Dvin , where a Synod of Armenian, Georgian, and Caspio-Albanian Bishops in 506 A.D. confessed The Faith of the Third Ecumenical Council of Ephesus (431 A.D.) while rejecting Nestorianism and the acts of the Council of Chalcedon (451 A.D.). When Dvin was sacked by the Muslims in 927 A.D., the Catholicos' Seat was moved first to Aghtamar in Lake Van then to the fortified city of Ani. When Ani was captured by the Greeks in 1045 A.D., the Catholicos' Seat was moved to Romkla on the Euphrates River, then again transferred (c. 1293 A.D.) to Sis, the capital of the Cilician Armenian Kingdom. In 1441 A.D. the Seat was returned to Holy Etchmiadzin.
Several subsidiary Armenian Patriarchates emerged over the centuries. During the occupation of Armenia by the Arabs in the 7th century, the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem was recognized. Bishop Abraham was the first Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem (638 669 A. D.). The Patriarchate of Aght'amar was established as the result of a schism within the Church of Armenia in 1113 A.D. The Armenian Patriarchate of Sis was created in 1441 A.D. The Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople was created in 1461 A.D. by the Ottoman government soon after their conquest of Turkey. The Catholic Armenian Patriarchate of Cilicia was created by Rome in 1742 A.D. The Patriarchates of Aght'amar and Albania (which was semi independent from the earliest of times) have lapsed. All the Armenian Patriarchates (except the Catholic Patriarchate of Cilicia) acknowledge The Patriarch of Holy Echmiadzin as first among equals.
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The Turkish genocide against Armenian nationals in 1890 1915 A.D. dealt a severe blow to The Armenian Church and decimated the Armenian population in Eastern Turkey. Of the 5,000 priests living before the Turkish massacres of Armenians, only 400 were still alive at the end of World War I. Because of this loss of population, the Patriarchate of Aght'amarian was abandoned. The Patriarchal See of Sis was confiscated by the Turkish government (c. 1920) . The Catholicos/Patriarch of Sis, Sahak II, with the help of the Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem and the French, moved south to Antelias, north of Beirut, Lebanon. The Primate of The Church of Armenia bears the title: Patriarch and Catholicos of All the Armenians.
Apostolic Succession from The Church of Armenia
Gregory Petros VIII, Catholicos Patriarch of Cilicia of The Armenians, consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate: Leon Chorchorunian on 7 April 1861 A.D. as Titular Archbishop of Malatia. Archbishop Chorchorunian consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Leon Chechemian on 23 April 1879 A.D. as "a Bishop at Malatia, Asia Minor". Bishop Chechemian consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
James Martin on 2 November 1890 A.D. as Archbishop of Caerleon upon Usk. Archbishop Martin consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Benjamin Charles Harris on 25 July 1915 A.D. as Bishop of Essex. Bishop Harris consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Charles Leslie Saul on 17 November 1944 A.D. at St. Paul's Church, Outwood, near Radcliffe, Manchester, England. On 8 September 1945 A.D. Bishop Saul was given the title and position of Archbishop of Suthronia in the Eparchy of All the Britons. Archbishop Saul consecrated s.c. to the sacred Episcopate:
Herman Philippus Abbinga on 28 November 1946 A.D. as Missionary Bishop for Holland and Indonesia, assisting Mar Georgius of the Catholic Apostolic Church and Bishop Richard Kenneth Hurgon of The Order of Christ Our Most Holy Redeemer and King. Bishop Abbinga consecrated s.c. to the Sacred Episcopate: Perry Nikolaus Cedarholm on 31 May 1953 A.D. in Oslo, Norway, as Bishop of Scandinavia for The Apostolic Episcopal Church. Bishop Cedarholm consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Archbishop Nils Bertil Alexander Persson
Archbishop of Scandinavia, Igreja Catolica Apostolica Brasileira assisted by Abp. Emile Federico Rodriguez y Fairfield, Abp. Paul G. W. Schultz, Bishop Christopher Rogers, Bishop Carroll Lowery, Exarch Howard D. van Orden, Archbishop Arthur Garrow, Bishop Petros (Eric Veloso), Bishop Michael Marshal
Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 5 August 1989: Bishop Karl Julius Barwin Primate, The Evangelical Catholic Church. Bishop Karl J. Barwin did consecrated to the episcopate on May 12, 1990
George Augustus Stallings, Jr. Patriarch and Archbishop of the African American Catholic Congregation, who consecrated Carlos Enrique Harvin Bishop in 1996 for the African American Catholic Congregation. Bishop Harvin consecrated on January 18, 2004
Frederick “Francis-Maria” Salvato, O.S.F.
The Apostolic Society of Franciscan Communities
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2006
James M. Long
Presiding Archbishop, United States Independent Catholic Church Consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2008
Bryan T. Marabanian
Presiding Bishop, American Apostolic Church
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate, sub conditione, in 2009
William J. M. Smith, OSB
Abbot Bishop of the Order of Saint Benedict of the American Apostolic Church
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The Apostolic Succession from The Syrian Patriarchate of Antioch and All The East
During the centuries Syria was governed by Rome/Constantinople, Antioch came to rank among one of the greatest cities of the empire in prestige, luxury, culture, law, medicine, art, literature, philosophy, and religion. By the middle of the 5th century, paganism had died out and monasticism was flourishing. Anti imperial, nationalist politics, however, soon came to find expression in the Monophysite controversies, which politicallyweakened both Syria and Constantinople. When the Patriarch of Antioch, Severus (Sawiriyus I), patriotically embraced the Monophysite movement in A.D. 518, the Church of Syria split. The faction loyal to imperial government elected Bulus I as their new Patriarch and forced Ptr. Severus into exile at Alexandria. (The Faithful in the Patriarchates of Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Antioch who continued to recognize Papal and Imperial authority came to be called Melkites after the Greek word for "king". For a rehearsal of The Evangelical Catholic Church's Apostolic Lines from this group, see the section The Melkite Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch and All The East.
In A.D. 542, during the fourth year of Patriarch Severus' Monophysite successor (Sergius, Sirjiyus), Fr. Ya'qub al Barda'i (Jacob Baradaeus) began a 36 year missionary journey throughout the Near East on behalf of Monophysitism and ordaining thousands of priests. His efforts solidified his Church's support among the common people and left such a positive and lasting impression that the Church for which he so arduously ministered is still fondly termed "Jacobite"
Syria was absorbed into the Muslim world at the beginning of the seventh century. The Jacobite Church flourished for many centuries, enjoying better treatment under the Muslims than under Constantinople. Since A.D. 1313, however, the Church has experienced a long decline and many factional splits.
Beginning with Patriarch Ignatius V (A.D. 1313), the Syrian prelate of Antioch has taken the name Ignatius as his religious name, in honor of St. Ignatius (the third Patriarch of Antioch), to which is added a second name and numeral. The head of this Syrian Church has the title: Patriarch of Antioch and of All the Domain of the Apostolic Throne.
Moran Mar Ignatius Yacob II (Ighnatiyus Ya'qub II), Patriarch of Antioch and All The East, consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate: Joseph Mar Dionysios V (Joseph Pulikottil, 1832 7/11/1909), as Metropolitan of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church on 12 February 1865 in Omeed (Deyarbekir), Turkey. He took the ecclesiastical name of Joseph Mar Dionysios V. Mar Dionysios consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate: Mar Julius I (Antonio Francisco Xavier Alvarez, 1837 1923), in the chapel of the Syrian seminary in Kottayam as Archbishop of Ceylon, Goa and India on 29 July 1889, assisted by Paulose Mar Athanasius (Paulose Kadavil Kooran), Paulose Mar Ivanios (Paulose Murimatton), and Geevarghese Mar Gregorios (Geevarghese Pallathitta Chaturuthil), all Bishops of The Malankar Orthodox Syrian Church. He took the ecclesiastical name of Mar Julius I. Mar Julius consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate: Mar Timotheus I (Joseph Rene Vilatte, 1/24/1854 7/8/1929), in Ceylon (nor Sri Lanka) as Archbishop Exarch of North America for The American Catholic Church on 29 May 1892, assisted by Paulose Mar Athanasius (Paulose Kadavil Kooran) and Geevarghese Mar Gregorios (Geevarghese Pallathitta Chaturuthil),
Bishops of The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, in accordance with the Patriarchal Bull of Moran Mor Ignatius Peter III dated 29 December 1891 at Mardin. Mar Timotheus I consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Mar Francis (John Barwell Walker, aka Edmund Basile Walker Baxter, 10/25/1881 4/2/1963) on 1 June 1923, taking the ecclesiastical nameFrancis. He succeeded Mar Timotheus (Vilatte) on 25 June 1923 as
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Grand Master of The Order of The Crown of Thorns, taking the title of Prince Edmond de San Luigi, Edmond I.
On 1 January 1946 he was consecrated by Antoine Joseph Aneed (Byzantine Universal {Catholic} and Orthodox Church of the Americas), assisted by Bishop Henry Joseph Kleefisch and Bishop Charles H. Hampton, and assigned as Titular Bishop of Caesarea. Mar Francis consecrated s.c. to the Sacred Episcopate:
Emile Federico Rodriguez y Fairfield (7/3/1912 ?), for the Byzantine Universal (Catholic) and Orthodox Church of the Americas sub conditione on 24 August 1961. Archbishop Emile, Iglesia Catolica Apostolica Mexicana, consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate: Bishop Karl Julius Barwin
Primate, The Evangelical Catholic Church. Bishop Karl J. Barwin did consecrated to the episcopate on May 12, 1990
George Augustus Stallings, Jr. - Patriarch and Archbishop of the African American Catholic Congregation, who consecrated
Carlos Enrique Harvin Bishop in 1996 for the African American Catholic Congregation. Bishop Harvin consecrated on January 18, 2004
Frederick “Francis Maria” Salvato, O.S.F.
The Apostolic Society of Franciscan Communities
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2006
James M. Long
Presiding Archbishop, United States Independent Catholic Church
Consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2008
Bryan T. Marabanian
Presiding Bishop, American Apostolic Church
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate, sub conditione, in 2009
William J. M. Smith, OSB
Abbot Bishop of the Order of Saint Benedict of the American Apostolic Church
The Apostolic Succession from
The Melkite Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East
Melkite (or Melchite) is the name given by the Monophysites to those Christians in the Patriarchates of Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Antioch after The Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon in 451 A.D. who continued to accept and recognize the Papal and Imperial authority of Rome. Although originally the term "Melkite" was applied to all of the Chalcedonian Orthodox jurisdictions, it later came to refer specifically to The Greek Catholic Church of Antioch.
During the Middle Ages, two factions gradually emerged within The Melkite Church of Antioch, one favoring continued contact with Rome and the other preferring complete autocephaly. Finally, in 1724 A.D., each faction elected its own Patriarch. One faction within the Synod elected Kirillus Tanas (an advocate of autonomy under the Pope) as the new Patriarch, another faction simultaneously elected Silfistrus (who favored autocephaly under the Ecumenical Patriarch) as Patriarch. Rome recognized Kirillus VI Tanas shortly after his election as The Patriarch of Antioch and all the East, of Alexandria and of Jerusalem. His jurisdiction includes all Greek Melkite uniates in the Near East and the Americas. He alternates his residence between the cities of Cairo and Beirut, spending six months in each.
The Patriarchs of this jurisdiction have been known for their erudition and learning, and have been native Syrians from the beginning of the split.
Apostolic Succession from the
Melkite-Greek Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch and All The East
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Cyrillos VIII Jeha (Petros Geha, 1840 1916), the Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch of Antioch and all the East, of Alexandria and of Jerusalem, consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate: Athanasios (Melece Saouaya/Sawoya, 3/15/1870 4/6/1919) on 5 February 1905 in The Chapel of St Michael at Cairo, Egypt, as Metropolitan Archbishop of Beirut and Gebeil, Lebanon. Abp. Athanasios (Sawoya) consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Antoun Anid (Anthony Aneed, 2/27/1881 8/24/1970) on 9 October 1911 in New York as Assistant Bishop (although not recognized by Rome, this consecration was later recognized by Patriarch Kirillus IX Mughabghab of The Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch). On 1 January 1946 Bishop Aneed was enthroned as Patriarch of The Byzantine Universal (Catholic) and Orthodox Church of the Americas. Patriarch Aneed consecrated s.c. to the Sacred Episcopate:
Emile Federico Rodriguez y Fairfield on 24 November 1964. Archbishop Rodriguez y Fairfield was installed as the Archbishop/Primate of the Iglesia Ortodoxa Catolica Apostolica Mexicana on 13 September 1983.
Archbishop Emile consecrated de novo to the Sacred Episcopate: Bishop Karl Julius Barwin
Primate, The Evangelical Catholic Church. Bishop Karl J. Barwin did consecrated to the episcopate on May 12, 1990
George Augustus Stallings, Jr. Patriarch and Archbishop of the African American Catholic Congregation, who consecrated
Carlos Enrique Harvin Bishop in 1996 for the African American Catholic Congregation. Bishop Harvin consecrated on January 18, 2004
Frederick “Francis-Maria” Salvato, O.S.F.
The Apostolic Society of Franciscan Communities
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2006
James M. Long
Presiding Archbishop, United States Independent Catholic Church Consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2008
Bryan T. Marabanian
Presiding Bishop, American Apostolic Church
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate, sub conditione, in 2009
William J. M. Smith, OSB
Abbot Bishop of the Order of Saint Benedict of the American Apostolic Church
Apostolic Succession II from the Melkite-Greek Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch and All The East
Cyrillos VIII Jeha (Petros Geha, 1840 1916), the Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch of Antioch and all the East, of Alexandria and of Jerusalem, consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate: Athanasios (Melece Saouaya/Sawoya, 3/15/1870 4/6/1919) on 5 February 1905 in The Chapel of St Michael at Cairo, Egypt, as Metropolitan Archbishop of Beirut and Gebeil, Lebanon. Abp. Athanasios (Sawoya) consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Antoun Anid (Anthony Aneed, 2/27/1881 8/24/1970) on 9 October 1911 in New York as Assistant Bishop (although not recognized by Rome, this consecration was later recognized by Patriarch Kirillus IX Mughabghab of The Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch). On 1 January 1946 Bishop Anid was enthroned as Patriarch of The Byzantine Universal (Catholic) and Orthodox Church of the Americas. Patriarch Anid, together with Primate Lowell Paul Wadle (The American Catholic Church), Bishop Henry Joseph Kleefisch (The Byzantine Universal Orthodox Church), and Bishop Charles H. Hampton (The Old Roman Catholic Church), consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate: Mar David I (Wallace David de Ortega Maxey, 02/22/1902 03/12/1992) on 23 August 1945. He became the Primate of The Apostolic Episcopal Church in America on 7 July 1948 but later resigned from that office, not returning to The Apostolic Episcopal Church in America until the early 1970's. Mar David, assisted by Primate Robert Ronald Ramm (The Apostolic Episcopal Catholic Church), consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate: Archbishop Nils Bertil Alexander Persson and enthroned him as Primate of The Apostolic Episcopal Church on 7 November 1986. Abp. Persson succeeded Abp. Robert Ronald Ramm on 11 November 1986 as Primate of The Apostolic Episcopal Catholic Church. Archbishop Persson also serves as the Missionary General for Scandinavia and All Europe for both the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (Philippine Independent Catholic Church, confirmed 15 June 1988; this is a member jurisdiction of The Anglican Communion) and the Igreja Católica Apostólica Brasiliera (Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church, confirmed 14 June 1987).
Archbishop Persson consecrated de novo to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Karl Julius Barwin
Primate, The Evangelical Catholic Church. Bishop Karl J. Barwin did consecrated to the episcopate on May 12, 1990
George Augustus Stallings, Jr. Patriarch and Archbishop of the African American Catholic Congregation,
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who consecrated
Carlos Enrique Harvin Bishop in 1996 for the African American Catholic Congregation. Bishop Harvin consecrated on January 18, 2004
Frederick “Francis-Maria” Salvato, O.S.F.
The Apostolic Society of Franciscan Communities
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2006
James M. Long
Presiding Archbishop, United States Independent Catholic Church
Consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2008
Bryan T. Marabanian
Presiding Bishop, American Apostolic Church
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate, sub conditione, in 2009
William J. M. Smith, OSB
Abbot Bishop of the Order of Saint Benedict of the American Apostolic Church
The Apostolic Succession from the Church of Cyprus
The Church of Cyprus was founded, according to Tradition, by St. Barnabas (mentioned in The New Testament). In A.D. 431 She was recognized as autocephalous under an independent Archbishop.
During the Crusades, Cyprus was seized by Richard I, King of England. King Richard gave the island to Guy of Lusignan, titular King of Jerusalem, c. 1191 A.D., who placed the Orthodox Bishops of Cyprus under the Latin Archbishop of Nikosia. Finally, when Orthodox Archbishop Germanos died ( c. 1275 A.D.), The Church of Cyprus was not allowed to elect a new Primate. Venice took control of Cyprus in 1489 A.D., but still did not allow the election of a new Primate.
The Ottoman Empire gained control of Cyprus in 1571 A.D. , at which time the Orthodox Faithful began instigating for a new Primate. In 1572 A.D., Turkey finally allowed the election of a new Archbishop of New Justiniana and All Cyprus. In 1821 A.D. they murdered the Archbishop (Kyprianos) and his three Bishops for aiding the Greek rebels on the mainland.
At the end of the Russo-Turkish War (1877-78), fearing Russian expansion, Turkey turned complete control of Cyprus over to the British for a rental of c. $500,000 a year (with Turkey retaining nominal title to the island).
In the 20th century, Cyprus has been continuously plagued with fighting: between the Greek and the Turkish populations, between the British administration and those seeking union with Greece and those seeking total independence. The Archepiscopal throne was vacant several times during this period (e.g., 1900-1909, 1933-1947). The Primate of The Church of Cyprus bears the title Archbishop of New Justiniana and All Cyprus and resides in Nikosia. Makarios II, Archbishop of New Justiniana and All Cyprus, consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate: Makarios III (Mikhail Christodolou Mouskos Kykkotis, 8/13/13 8/3/77) on 13 June 1948. Bishop Kykkotis was elected Primate of Cyprus in 1950. Archbishop Makarios III consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate: Theoklitos Kantaris as Bishop of Salamis, Cyprus. Bishop Kantaris consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate: Wolodymyr I (Walter Myron Propheta, 1912 8/10/72) on 30 March 1965 as Archbishop of the American Orthodox Catholic Church with the title of Patriarch Wolodymyr I, assisted by Abp. Theodotus (Stanislaus de Witow). (Bishop Propheta was first consecrated on 3 October 1964 by Patriarch Joachim Souris of the True Orthodox Church of Greece, assisted by Abp. Theodotus. Some view the 1965 elevation as not a consecration to the Office of Archbishop but merely an installation into that Office.)
Patriarch Wolodymyr I consecrated s.c. to the Sacred Episcopate:
Homer Ferdinand Roebke on 4 March 1967 as Archbishop for The American Orthodox Catholic Church. Archbishop Roebke consecrated s.c. to the Sacred Episcopate: Paul Christian G. W. Schultz (4/10/31 9/13/95) on 7 May 1975. Archbishop Schultz consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Karl Julius Barwin Primate, The Evangelical Catholic Church. Bishop Karl J. Barwin did consecrated to the episcopate on May 12, 1990
George Augustus Stallings, Jr. Patriarch and Archbishop of the African American Catholic Congregation, who consecrated
Carlos Enrique Harvin Bishop in 1996 for the African American Catholic Congregation. Bishop Harvin
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consecrated on January 18, 2004
Frederick “Francis-Maria” Salvato, O.S.F.
The Apostolic Society of Franciscan Communities
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2006
James M. Long
Presiding Archbishop, United States Independent Catholic Church Consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2008
Bryan T. Marabanian
Presiding Bishop, American Apostolic Church
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate, sub conditione, in 2009
William J. M. Smith, OSB
Abbot Bishop of the Order of Saint Benedict of the American Apostolic Church
The Apostolic Succession From The Order of Corporate Reunion
At the direction of the Roman Catholic Hierarch at Milan, Italy, in the summer of 1877, a plan was initiated for the purpose of introducing Orders into a Pro Uniate Movement within The Church of England which The Vatican would be compelled to recognize as valid. Roman Catholic Archbishop Luigi Nazari di Calabiana of Milan (consecrated 12 April 1847; Archbishop of Milan from 1867 1893), joined near the city of Venice, Italy,by two unnamed Bishops (Greek and Coptic, their names being kept under the confessional seal but their validity guaranteed by The Vatican), did consecrate three bishops in the summer of 1877 to the sacred episcopacy: Dr. Frederick George Lee (01/06/1832 01/22/02) as Bishop of Dorchester and Primate I of The Order of Corporate Reunion.
Thomas Wimberley Mossman (1826 06/06/1885 ) as Bishop of Selby. Dr. John Thomas Seccombe (1835 1895 ) as Bishop of Caerleon. Bp. Lee, Bp. Mossman and Bp. Seccombe, assisting Mar Pelagius I (Patriarch Richard Williams Morgan, First British Patriarch of the Patriarchate of Antioch for the Ancient British Church, consecrated in 1874 by Mar Julius {Raimond Ferrette}, Bishop of Iona and Patriarchal Legate for Western Europe; at some time Bp. Morgan was also consecrated by Bp. Seccombe), consecrated to the sacred episcopacy on 6 March 1879:
Charles Isaac Stevens (1935 02/02/17) as Mar Theophilus I for The Order of Corporate Reunion; later Hierarch of Caerleon on Usk and Second Patriarch of The Ancient British Church. Mar Theophilus I, assisted by Bp. Alfred Spencer Richardson of The Reformed Episcopal Church, consecrated to the sacred episcopacy on 4 May 1890: Leon Chechemian (1848 1920) asMar Leon, Archbishop of Selsey for The Ancient British Church. Abp. Chechemian, assisted by Abp. James Martin, Bp. Frederick Boucher, and Bp. George W. L. Maaers, consecrated to the sacred episcopacy on 2 November 1897: Andrew Charles Albert McLagen 1851 1928) as Colonial Missionary Bishop for Cape Colony and Titular Bishop of Claremont. In 1919 Bp. McLagen became the 4th Patriarch of The Ancient British Church. Ptr. McLagen consecrated to the sacred episcopacy on 4 June 1922: Herbert James Monzani Heard (1866 08/15/47) in St. Andrew's Church, Retreat Place, London, as Mar Jacobus II, Bishop of Selsey and Primate of The Ancient British Church and the United Armenian Catholic Church. Bp. Heard became the 5th Patriarch of The Ancient British Church/Free Protestant Episcopal Church in 1930. Ptr. Monzani Heard consecrated to the sacred episcopacy on 13 June 1943:
William Bernard Crow (09/11/1895 06/28/76) as Mar Bernard, Bishop of Santa Sophia. On 17 October 1943 at "The Council of London," Bp. Crow was elected by representatives of The Ancient British Church, British Orthodox Catholic Church, Apostolic Episcopal Church, Old Catholic Orthodox Church, Order of the Holy Wisdom, and Order of Antioch to the Patriarchal See of Antioch with the title of Mar Basilius Abdullah III. On 23 March 1944 the Ancient British Church, British Orthodox Catholic Church and the Old Catholic Orthodox Church banded together to form The Western Orthodox Catholic Church. Ptr. Mar Basilius Abdullah II consecrated to the sacred episcopacy on 10 April 1944: Hugh George de Willmott Newman 01/17/05 02/28/79) as Mar Georgius. On 29 January 1945 Mar Georgius became the 6th Patriarch of The Ancient British Church with the title Patriarch of Glastonbury. Ptr. Mar Georgius, assisted by Mar Joannes, Titular Bishop of St. Marylebone (William John Eaton Jeffrey), Mar Leofric, Archbishop of Suthronia in the Eparchy of all the Britons (Charles Leslie Saul), and Mar David, Bishop of Repton (Dr. Francis David Bacon), consecrated to the sacred episcopacy on 22 April 1946: Richard Kenneth Hurgon (04/24/02 ?) as Mar Benignus, Titular Bishop of Mere (Somerset). On 29 March 1981 Mar Benignus became Primus of The Reformed Catholic Church (Utrecht Confession). Bp. Hurgon consecrated to the sacred episcopacy on 7 December 1985: Nils Bertil Alexander Persson (11/10/41 ), Archbishop of Europe & Asia, The Apostolic Episcopal Church.
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He was enthroned as Primate of the Apostolic Episcopal Church on 7 November 1986 and served as Primate VIII of The Order of Corporate Reunion. Abp. Persson, assisted by Archbishop Emile Federico Rodrigues y Fairfield (Iglesia Ortodoxa Catolica Apostolica Mexicana), Abp. Howard D. van Orden (Philippine Independent Catholic Church in the Americas), Bishop Carroll T. Lowery (The Apostolic Episcopal Church), and Archbishop Arthur J. Garrow (The Archiepiscopate Ordinariate of Healing Arts Missionaries & Chaplains in America), each assisting, coöperating and co consecrating by laying on hands and uttering all the words of consecration in unison, together with Archbishop Paul Christian Gerald W. Schultz (Archbishop of Los Angeles, Administrator of The Philippine Independent Catholic Church in The Americas, and Apostolic Administrator in the U.S.A. for The Apostolic Episcopal Church), Bishop Eric T. Ong Veloso (Orthodox Catholic Church in The Philippines), Bishop Christopher J. Rogers (Philippine Independent Catholic Church in The Americas), and Exarch Marciel (Michael Marshall, Orthodox Old Catholic Church), consecrated to the sacred episcopacy on 5 August 1989: Karl Julius Barwin (10/16/43 ), Primate, The Evangelical Catholic Church. Bishop Karl J. Barwin did consecrated to the episcopate on May 12, 1990 George Augustus Stallings, Jr. Patriarch and Archbishop of the African American Catholic Congregation, who consecrated
Carlos Enrique Harvin Bishop in 1996 for the African American Catholic Congregation. Bishop Harvin consecrated on January 18, 2004
Frederick “Francis-Maria” Salvato, O.S.F.
The Apostolic Society of Franciscan Communities
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2006
James M. Long
Presiding Archbishop, United States Independent Catholic Church
Consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2008
Bryan T. Marabanian
Presiding Bishop, American Apostolic Church
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate, sub conditione, in 2009
William J. M. Smith, OSB
Abbot Bishop of the Order of Saint Benedict of the American Apostolic Church
The Church of The East through The Patriarchate of Selucia-Ctesiphen & All The East
Tooma Shlikha (St. Thomas)
who after establishing Church in Mesopotamia, Persia and their environment, went to India (AD 3 7 and then consecrated Bar Tulmay A.D. 33
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Addai (or Taddai) Shlikha 33-45
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Agai, disciple of Addai (of the Seventy) 45 81
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Mari, disciple of Addai (of the Seventy) 48 81
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate
Abris, relative of the Virgin Mary 90-107
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Oraham I, of Kashkar 130-152
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Yacob 1, relative of Yosip the Carpenter 172-190
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Ebid M’shikha
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Akhu d’Awu
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Shakhlupa of Kashkar
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Papa Bar Gaggai
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Shimun Bar Sabbai
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Shahdost
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Bar Bashmin
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Tumarsa
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Qaiyuma
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Eskhaq
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Akhkhi
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Yoalaha I
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Maana
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Qarabukht
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Dadishu
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Bawai or Babu
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Aqaq
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Bawai
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Sheela
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Narsai
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Elisha (dual Patriarchate)
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Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Polos
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Yosip
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Khazqiyil
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Eshuyow I, Arzunaya
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Sorishu I Garmaqaya
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Greghor, Partaya
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Eshuyow II (Gdalaya or Arab)
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Mar Immeh
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Eshuyow III, Kdayawaya
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Gewargis I
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Yokhannan I, Bar Marta
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Khnaishu I
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Yokhannan II, Garba
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Sliwazkha
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Pethyon
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Awa
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Surin
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Yacob II
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Khnanishu
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Timotheus I
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Eshu barnon
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Gewargis II
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Soreshu II
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Oraham II, Margaya
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Teadasis (or Theodoros)
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Sargis, Suwaya
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Annush d’beth Garmay
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Yokhannan III, Bar Narsay
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Yokhannan IV, (nephew of Theodoros)
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Yokhannan V, Bar Ogare
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Oraham III, Abraza
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Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Ammanoel I
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Esrail Karkhaya
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Odishu Garmaqaya
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Mari Aturaya
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Yokhannan VI (Yoannis)
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Yokhannan VII (Bar Nazuk)
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Eshuyow IV
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Elia I (Terhan)
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Yokhannan VIII (Bar Tragala)
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Soreshu III (Bar Zanbur)
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Odishu II (Bar Ars) Aturaya
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Makkikha I (Bar Shlemon)
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Elia II (Bar Maqli)
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Bar Soma (Of Suwa)
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Bar Gabbara
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Odishu III (Nephew of Elia II)
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Eshuyow V (from Beth Zodai, Baladaya)
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Elia III (Abukhalim)
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Yoalaha II (Bar Qaiyuma)
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Sorishu IV
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Sorishu V (from Baghdad)
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Makkikha II
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Dinkha I (Arbilaya, i.e., from Arbil)
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Yoalaha III (Bar Turkaye -Turkish by race)
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Timotheus II (Arbilaya, I. e. from Arbil)
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Dinkha II
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Dinkha III
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Shimun II
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Shimun III
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Elia III
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Shimun IV
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Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Shimun V
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Elia V
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Shimun VI
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Eshuyow Shimun VII
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Dinkha Shimun VIII (Bar Mama)
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Yoalaha Shimun
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Dinkha Shimun IX
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Elia Shimun X
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Eshuyow Shimun XI
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Yoalaha Shimun XII
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Dinkha Shimun XIII
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Shlemon (Sulaiman) Shimun XIV
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Mikhail (Mukhattis) Shimun XV
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Yonan (Yuna) Shimun XVII
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Oraharn Shimun XIX
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate
Maran Mar Rubil Shimun XVIII, Catholicos Patriarch of Selucia Ctesphen & All The East, consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Mar Antonius Abd-Ishu (Anthony Thondatta) as Metropolitan of India, Ceylon, Milapur, Socotra and Messina in The Holy Church of Mar Saba in Upper Tiari, on 17 December 1862 A.D. Mar Abd Ishu, assisted by Mar Augustine (Michael Augustine) of The Syro Chaldean Church, consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate: Mar Basilius (Luis Mariano Soares) as Bishop of Trichur on 24 July 1899 A.D. and head of a small body of Indian Christians known as Mellusians; he succeeded to the Metropolitanate upon Mar Abd Ishu's death in 1900 A.D. Mar Basilius consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate: Mar Jacobus (Ulric Vernon Herford) as Bishop for the United Kingdom and with the Title of Mar Jacobus, Bishop of Mercia & Meddelesex (including the county of London) at Palithamm, near Kaliarkoli, Madura District, South India, on 30 November 1902 A.D. Upon his return to England, Mar Jacobus founded The Evangelical Catholic Communion with the hope of uniting East and West. Mar Jacobus consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Mar Paulus (William Stanley McBean Knight) as Bishop of Kent on 28 February 1925 A.D. Mar Paulus consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Mar Hedley (Hedley Coward Bartlett) as Bishop of Siluria on 18 October 1931 A.D. Mar Hedley consecrated sub conditioned to the Sacred Episcopate:
Mar Georgius (Hugh George de Willmott Newman) as Metropolitan of Glastonbury on 20 May 1945 A.D., assisted by Bishop John Syer (Bishop of Llanthony), Mar Francis (Francis Ernest Langhelt, Bishop of Minster) and Bishop George Henry Brook (Order of Rievaulx). Mar Georgius consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate: Mar Benignus (Richard Kenneth Hurgon) as Titular Bishop of Mere (Somerset) on 22 April 1946 A.D., assisted by Mar Leofric (Charles Leslie Saul, Archbishop Exarch of The Catholicate of the West), Mar David (Francis David Bacon, Bishop of The Catholicate of the West), and Mar Johannus (William John Eaton Jeffrey, General Moderator of The Evangelical Catholic Communion and Bishop of The Catholicate of the West). Mar Benignus consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Mar Alexander (Nils Bertil Alexander Persson) on 7 December 1985 A.D., assisted by Bishop Ian Kirk Stewart (Reformed Catholic Church). Mar Alexander consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Karl (Karl Julius Barwin) as Primate of The Evangelical Catholic Church on 5 August 1989 A.D., assisted by Archbishop Emile Federico Rodrigues y Fairfield (Iglesia Ortodoxa Catolica Apostolica Mexicana), Bishop Carroll T. Lowery (The Apostolic Episcopal Church), Archbishop Arthur J. Garrow (The Archiepiscopate Ordinariate of Healing Arts Missionaries & Chaplains in America) and Archbishop Howard D.
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van Orden (Order of St. Jude), each assisting, coöperating and co consecrating by laying on hands and uttering all the words of consecration. Assisting in this consecration as Co Consecrators were Archbishop Paul Christian Gerald W. Schultz (Archbishop of Los Angeles and Administrator of The Philippine Independent Catholic Church in The Americas), Bishop Petros (Eric Tan Ong Veloso, Orthodox Catholic Church in The Philippines), Bishop Christopher J. Rogers (Suffragan Bishop of Los Angeles, The Philippine Independent Catholic Church in The Americas), and Bishop Marciel (Michael Marshall, Orthodox Old Catholic Church). Bishop Karl J. Barwin did consecrated to the episcopate on May 12, 1990 George Augustus Stallings, Jr. Patriarch and Archbishop of the African American Catholic Congregation, who consecrated Carlos Enrique Harvin Bishop in 1996 for the African American Catholic Congregation. Bishop Harvin consecrated on January 18, 2004
Frederick “Francis Maria” Salvato, O.S.F.
The Apostolic Society of Franciscan Communities
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2006
James M. Long
Presiding Archbishop, United States Independent Catholic Church
Consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2008
Bryan T. Marabanian
Presiding Bishop, American Apostolic Church
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate, sub conditione, in 2009
William J. M. Smith, OSB
Abbot Bishop of the Order of Saint Benedict of the American Apostolic Church
SUCCESSION II
Maran Man Yusip 'Ummanu'il II Thoma (Yosif Khayatt), Catholicos Patriarch of Babylonia of The Chaldeans, who was consecrated 24 July 1892 A.D. by Maran Mar Petros Elias XIV Abu Al Yunan (Patriarch 1878 1894 A.D.), assisted by the Bishop of Salmas & Patriarchal Vicar Pierre Aziz, consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Mar Antoine (Antoine Lefberne/Lefebvre) on 27 May 1917 A.D. as Patriarchal Exarch of Western Europe and Delegate & Special Commissary in the U.S.A. Mar Antoine was a member of the Ordo Antonianus S. Hormisdae Chaldaeorum. Mar Antoine consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Mar John Emmanuel (Arthur Wolfort Brooks) on 4 May 1925 A.D. in The Chapel of The Redeemer in New York City, assisted by Mar James (Fernand Portal) and Mar Evodius (Edward Robert Smith), Bishops of The Chaldean Catholic Church. On 19 November 1930 A.D., Mar John Emmanuel became Presiding Bishop of The Apostolic Episcopal Church, which had been accepted in 1929 A.D. by The Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem, Elisha I (Eghishe I Tourian). Mar John Emmanuel consecrated sub conditione to the Sacred Episcopate:
Mar David I (Wallace de Ortega Maxey) on 13 July 1946 A.D. at St. Michael Hellenic Orthodox Church "Taxiarchai" of The Holy Land as Archbishop of The Province of The West of The Apostolic Episcopal Church, assisted by Rev'd David Leondarides and Rev'd Stanatios Jongsoudis of The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem. Mar David became Archbishop Primate of The Apostolic Episcopal Church in 1948. Mar David I consecrated sub conditione to the Sacred Episcopate:
Mar Alexander (Nils Bertil Alexander Persson) and enthroned him as the Third Archbishop Primate of The Apostolic Episcopal Church on 7 November 1986 A.D., assisted by Archbishop Primate Juergen Bless (The German Old Catholic Church in America), Archbishop Primate Emile Rodriguez y Fairfield (Iglesia Ortodoxa Catolica Apostolica Mexicana), Archbishop Primate Arthur J. Garrow (The Archiepiscopate Ordinariate of Healing Arts Missionaries & Chaplains in America), Bishop Daniel N. McCarty (The Apostolic Catholic Church of the Americas), Archbishop Primate Robert Ronald Ramm (The Ancient Christian Fellowship) and Archbishop Paul G. W. Schultz (Iglesia Ortodoxa Apostolica Mexicana and Apostolic Administrator of The Province of The West of The Apostolic Episcopal Church). Mar Alexander consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Karl (Karl Julius Barwin) as Primate of The Evangelical Catholic Church on 5 August 1989 A.D., assisted by Archbishop Emile Federico Rodrigues y Fairfield (Iglesia Ortodoxa Catolica Apostolica Mexicana), Bishop Carroll T. Lowery (The Apostolic Episcopal Church), Archbishop Arthur J. Garrow (The Archiepiscopate Ordinariate of Healing Arts Missionaries & Chaplains in America) and Archbishop Howard D. van Orden (Order of St. Jude), each assisting, coöperating and co consecrating by laying on hands and uttering all the words of consecration. Assisting as Co Consecrators were Archbishop Paul Christian Gerald
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Apostolic Succession from The Church of The East through The Patriarchate of Babylonia of The Chaldeans
W. Schultz (Archbishop of Los Angeles and Administrator of The Philippine Independent Catholic Church in The Americas), Bishop Petros (Eric Tan Ong Veloso, Orthodox Catholic Church in The Philippines), Bishop Christopher J. Rogers (Suffragan Bishop of Los Angeles, The Philippine Independent Catholic Church in The Americas), and Bishop Marciel (Michael Marshall, Orthodox Old Catholic Church). Bishop Karl J. Barwin did consecrated to the episcopate on May 12, 1990
George Augustus Stallings, Jr. Patriarch and Archbishop of the African American Catholic Congregation, who consecrated
Carlos Enrique Harvin Bishop in 1996 for the African American Catholic Congregation. Bishop Harvin consecrated on January 18, 2004
Frederick “Francis Maria” Salvato, O.S.F.
The Apostolic Society of Franciscan Communities
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2006 James M. Long
Presiding Archbishop, United States Independent Catholic Church Consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2008 Bryan T. Marabanian
Presiding Bishop, American Apostolic Church
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate, sub conditione, in 2009 William J. M. Smith, OSB
Abbot Bishop of the Order of Saint Benedict of the American Apostolic Church
SUCCESSION III
Tooma Shlikha (St. Thomas)
who after establishing Church in Mesopotamia, Persia and their environment, went to India (AD 3 7 and then consecrated Bar Tulmay A.D. 33
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Addai (or Taddai) Shlikha 33-45
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Agai, disciple of Addai (of the Seventy) 45 81
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Mari, disciple of Addai (of the Seventy) 48 81
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Abris, relative of the Virgin Mary 90 107
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Oraham I, of Kashkar 130 152
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Yacob 1, relative of Yosip the Carpenter 172-190
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Ebid M’shikha
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Akhu d’Awu
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Shakhlupa of Kashkar
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Papa Bar Gaggai
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Shimun Bar Sabbai
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Shahdost
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Bar Bashmin
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Tumarsa
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Qaiyuma
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Eskhaq
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Akhkhi
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Yoalaha I
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Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Maana
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Qarabukht
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Dadishu
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Bawai or Babu
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Aqaq
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Bawai
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Sheela
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Narsai
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Elisha (dual Patriarchate)
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Polos
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Yosip
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Khazqiyil
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Eshuyow I, Arzunaya
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Sorishu I Garmaqaya
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Greghor, Partaya
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Eshuyow II (Gdalaya or Arab)
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Mar Immeh
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Eshuyow III, Kdayawaya
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Gewargis I
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Yokhannan I, Bar Marta
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Khnaishu I
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Yokhannan II, Garba
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Sliwazkha
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Pethyon
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Awa
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Surin
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Yacob II
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Khnanishu
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Timotheus I
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Eshu-barnon
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Gewargis II
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Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Soreshu II
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Oraham II, Margaya
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Teadasis (or Theodoros)
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Sargis, Suwaya
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Annush d’beth Garmay
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Yokhannan III, Bar Narsay
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Yokhannan IV, (nephew of Theodoros)
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Yokhannan V, Bar Ogare
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Oraham III, Abraza
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Ammanoel I
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Esrail Karkhaya
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Odishu Garmaqaya
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Mari Aturaya
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Yokhannan VI (Yoannis)
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Yokhannan VII (Bar Nazuk)
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Eshuyow IV
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Elia I (Terhan)
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Yokhannan VIII (Bar Tragala)
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Soreshu III (Bar Zanbur)
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Odishu II (Bar Ars) Aturaya
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Makkikha I (Bar Shlemon)
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Elia II (Bar Maqli)
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Bar Soma (Of Suwa)
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Bar Gabbara
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Odishu III (Nephew of Elia II)
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Eshuyow V (from Beth Zodai, Baladaya)
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Elia III (Abukhalim)
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Yoalaha II (Bar Qaiyuma)
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Sorishu IV
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Sorishu V (from Baghdad)
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Makkikha II
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Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Dinkha I (Arbilaya, i.e., from Arbil)
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Yoalaha III (Bar Turkaye -Turkish by race)
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Timotheus II (Arbilaya, I. e. from Arbil)
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Dinkha II
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Dinkha III
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Shimun II
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Shimun III
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Elia III
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Shimun IV
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Shimun V
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Elia V
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Shimun VI
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Eshuyow Shimun VII
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Dinkha Shimun VIII (Bar Mama)
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Yoalaha Shimun
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Dinkha Shimun IX
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Elia Shimun X
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Eshuyow Shimun XI
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Yoalaha Shimun XII
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Dinkha Shimun XIII
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Shlemon (Sulaiman) Shimun XIV
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Mikhail (Mukhattis) Shimun XV
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Yonan (Yuna) Shimun XVII
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate Oraharn Shimun XIX
Who then consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate
Maran Mar Rubil Shimun XVIII, Catholicos Patriarch of Selucia Ctesphen & All The East, consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Mar Antonius Abd Ishu (Anthony Thondatta) as Metropolitan of India, Ceylon, Milapur, Socotra and Messina in The Holy Church of Mar Saba in Upper Tiari, on 17 December 1862 A.D. Mar Abd Ishu, assisted by Mar Augustine (Michael Augustine) of The Syro Chaldean Church, consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate: Mar Basilius (Luis Mariano Soares) as Bishop of Trichur on 24 July 1899 A.D. and head of a small body of Indian Christians known as Mellusians; he succeeded to the Metropolitanate upon Mar Abd Ishu's death in 1900 A.D. Mar Basilius consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Mar Jacobus (Ulric Vernon Herford) as Bishop for the United Kingdom and with the Title of Mar Jacobus, Bishop of Mercia & Meddelesex (including the county of London) at Palithamm, near Kaliarkoli, Madura District, South India, on 30 November 1902 A.D. Upon his return to England, Mar Jacobus founded The Evangelical Catholic Communion with the hope of uniting East and West. Mar Jacobus consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
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Mar Paulus (William Stanley McBean Knight) as Bishop of Kent on 28 February 1925 A.D. Mar Paulus consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate: Mar Hedley (Hedley Coward Bartlett) as Bishop of Siluria on 18 October 1931 A.D. Mar Hedley consecrated sub conditioned to the Sacred Episcopate: Mar Georgius (Hugh George de Willmott Newman) as Metropolitan of Glastonbury on 20 May 1945 A.D., assisted by Bishop John Syer (Bishop of Llanthony), Mar Francis (Francis Ernest Langhelt, Bishop of Minster) and Bishop George Henry Brook (Order of Rievaulx). Mar Georgius consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate: Mar David I (Wallace David de Ortega Maxey)
Who consecrated and raised to The Sacred Episcopate in 1957
Herman Adrian Spruit
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1978
Frank Ellsworth Hughes
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1982
Martha Theresa Mohring Shultz
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1993
Judy Catherine Adams
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1995
Anthony F. Hash
Who consecrated sub conditione to the Sacred Episcopate in 2003
Michael Carroll, OSP
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2004
Frederick “Francis-Maria” Salvato, O.S.F.
The Apostolic Society of Franciscan Communities
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2006
James M. Long
Presiding Archbishop, United States Independent Catholic Church
Consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2008
Bryan T. Marabanian
Presiding Bishop, American Apostolic Church
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate, sub conditione, in 2009
William J. M. Smith, OSB
Abbot Bishop of the Order of Saint Benedict of the American Apostolic Church
Apostolic Succession from The Church of The East through The Patriarchate of Babylonia of The Chaldeans
Maran Man Yusip 'Ummanu'il II Thoma (Yosif Khayatt), Catholicos Patriarch of Babylonia of The Chaldeans, who was consecrated 24 July 1892 A.D. by Maran Mar Petros Elias XIV Abu Al Yunan (Patriarch 1878 1894 A.D.), assisted by the Bishop of Salmas & Patriarchal Vicar Pierre Aziz, consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Mar Antoine (Antoine Lefberne/Lefebvre) on 27 May 1917 A.D. as Patriarchal Exarch of Western Europe and Delegate & Special Commissary in the U.S.A. Mar Antoine was a member of the Ordo Antonianus S. Hormisdae Chaldaeorum. Mar Antoine consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Mar John Emmanuel (Arthur Wolfort Brooks) on 4 May 1925 A.D. in The Chapel of The Redeemer in New York City, assisted by Mar James (Fernand Portal) and Mar Evodius (Edward Robert Smith), Bishops of The Chaldean Catholic Church. On 19 November 1930 A.D., Mar John Emmanuel became Presiding Bishop of The Apostolic Episcopal Church, which had been accepted in 1929 A.D. by The Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem, Elisha I (Eghishe I Tourian). Mar John Emmanuel consecrated sub conditione to the Sacred Episcopate:
Mar David I (Wallace de Ortega Maxey) on 13 July 1946 A.D. at St. Michael Hellenic Orthodox Church "Taxiarchai" of The Holy Land as Archbishop of The Province of The West of The Apostolic Episcopal Church, assisted by Rev'd David Leondarides and Rev'd Stanatios Jongsoudis of The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem. Mar David became Archbishop Primate of The Apostolic Episcopal Church in 1948. Who consecrated and raised to The Sacred Episcopate in 1957
Herman Adrian Spruit
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1978
Frank Ellsworth Hughes
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1982
Martha Theresa Mohring Shultz
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Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1993
Judy Catherine Adams
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1995
Anthony F. Hash
Who consecrated sub conditione to the Sacred Episcopate in 2003
Michael Carroll, OSP
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2004
Frederick “Francis Maria” Salvato, O.S.F.
The Apostolic Society of Franciscan Communities
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2006
James M. Long
Presiding Archbishop, United States Independent Catholic Church
Consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2008
Bryan T. Marabanian
Presiding Bishop, American Apostolic Church
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate, sub conditione, in 2009
William J. M. Smith, OSB
Abbot Bishop of the Order of Saint Benedict of the American Apostolic Church
The Apostolic Succession from The Order of Corporate Reunion
At the direction of the Roman Catholic Hierarch at Milan, Italy, in the summer of 1877, a plan was initiated for the purpose of introducing Orders into a Pro Uniate Movement within The Church of England which The Vatican would be compelled to recognize as valid. Roman Catholic Archbishop Luigi Nazari di Calabiana of Milan (consecrated 12 April 1847; Archbishop of Milan from 1867 1893), joined near the city of Venice, Italy, by two unnamed Bishops (Greek and Coptic, their names being kept under the confessional seal but their validity guaranteed by The Vatican), did consecrate three bishops in the summer of 1877 to the sacred episcopacy:
Dr. Frederick George Lee (01/06/1832 01/22/02) as Bishop of Dorchester and Primate I of The Order of Corporate Reunion.
Thomas Wimberley Mossman (1826 06/06/1885 ) as Bishop of Selby.
Dr. John Thomas Seccombe (1835 1895 ) as Bishop of Caerleon. Bp. Lee, Bp. Mossman and Bp. Seccombe, assisting Mar Pelagius I (Patriarch Richard Williams Morgan, First British Patriarch of the Patriarchate of Antioch for the Ancient British Church, consecrated in 1874 by Mar Julius {Raimond Ferrette}, Bishop of Iona and Patriarchal Legate for Western Europe; at some time Bp. Morgan was also consecrated by Bp. Seccombe), consecrated to the sacred episcopacy on 6 March 1879: Charles Isaac Stevens (1935 02/02/17) as Mar Theophilus I for The Order of Corporate Reunion; later Hierarch of Caerleon on Usk and Second Patriarch of The Ancient British Church. Mar Theophilus I, assisted by Bp. Alfred Spencer Richardson of The Reformed Episcopal Church, consecrated to the sacred episcopacy on 4 May 1890:
Leon Chechemian (1848 1920) asMar Leon, Archbishop of Selsey for The Ancient British Church. Abp. Chechemian, assisted by Abp. James Martin, Bp. Frederick Boucher, and Bp. George W. L. Maaers, consecrated to the sacred episcopacy on 2 November 1897:
Andrew Charles Albert McLagen 1851 1928) as Colonial Missionary Bishop for Cape Colony and Titular Bishop of Claremont. In 1919 Bp. McLagen became the 4th Patriarch of The Ancient British Church. Ptr. McLagen consecrated to the sacred episcopacy on 4 June 1922:
Herbert James Monzani Heard (1866 08/15/47) in St. Andrew's Church, Retreat Place, London, as Mar Jacobus II, Bishop of Selsey and Primate of The Ancient British Church and the United Armenian Catholic Church. Bp. Heard became the 5th Patriarch of The Ancient British Church/Free Protestant Episcopal Church in 1930. Ptr. Monzani Heard consecrated to the sacred episcopacy on 13 June 1943:
William Bernard Crow (09/11/1895 06/28/76) as Mar Bernard, Bishop of Santa Sophia. On 17 October 1943 at "The Council of London," Bp. Crow was elected by representatives of The Ancient British Church, British Orthodox Catholic Church, Apostolic Episcopal Church, Old Catholic Orthodox Church, Order of the Holy Wisdom, and Order of Antioch to the Patriarchal See of Antioch with the title of Mar Basilius Abdullah III.
On 23 March 1944 the Ancient British Church, British Orthodox Catholic Church and the Old Catholic Orthodox Church banded together to form The Western Orthodox Catholic Church. Ptr. Mar Basilius Abdullah II consecrated to the sacred episcopacy on 10 April 1944:
Hugh George de Willmott Newman 01/17/05 02/28/79) as Mar Georgius. On 29 January 1945 Mar Georgius became the 6th Patriarch of The Ancient British Church with the title Patriarch of Glastonbury. Who consecrated:
Herman Adrian Spruit
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Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1978
Frank Ellsworth Hughes
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1982
Martha Theresa Mohring Shultz
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1993
Judy Catherine Adams
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1995
Anthony F. Hash
Who consecrated sub conditione to the Sacred Episcopate in 2003
Michael Carroll, OSP
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2004
Frederick “Francis Maria” Salvato, O.S.F.
The Apostolic Society of Franciscan Communities
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2006
James M. Long
Presiding Archbishop, United States Independent Catholic Church
Consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 2008
Bryan T. Marabanian
Presiding Bishop, American Apostolic Church
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate, sub conditione, in 2009
William J. M. Smith, OSB
Abbot Bishop of the Order of Saint Benedict of the American Apostolic Church
The Russian Orthodox Succession
RUSSIAN ORTHODOX SUCCESSION II
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Stachys One of the Seventy. A.D. 38 54
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54 68 4. Polykarpos 69 89 5. Ploutarchos 89 105 6. Sedekion 105 114 7. Diogenes 114 129 8. Eleftherios 129 136 9. Felix 136 141 10. Polykarpos II 141 144 11. Athenodoros 144 148 12. Euzoios 148 154 13. Laurentios 154 166 14. Alypios 166 169 15. Pertinax 169 187 16. Olympianos 187 198 17. Markos I 198 211 18. Philadelphos 211 214 19. Kyriakos I 214 230 20. Kastinos 230 237 21. Eugenios I 237 242 22. Titos 242 272 23. Dometios 272 303 24. Roufinos 303 25. Provos 303 315 26. Metrophanes I 315 325 27. Alexandros 325 340 28. Paulos I, the Confessor 340 41, 342 34, 348 50 29. Eusebios 341 342 30. Makedonios I 344 348, 350 360 31. Eudoxios 360 369 32. Demophilos 369 379 33. Evagrios 379 34. Maximos I 38 35. Gregory the Theologian 379 381 36. Nectarios 381 397 37. John I, the Chrysostom 398 404
100 38. Arsakios 404 405 39. Attikos 406 425 40. Sisinios I 425 427 41. Nestorios 428 431 42. Maximianos 431 434 43. Proklos 434 447 44. Flavianos 447 449 45. Anatolios 449 458 46. Gennadios I 458 471 47. Akakios 471 489 48. Favritas 489 490 49. Euphemios 490 496 50. Makedonios II 496 511 51. Timotheos I 511 518 52. John II the Cappadocian 518 520 53. Epiphanios 520 536 54. Anthimos 5335 536 55. Menas 536 552 56. Eutychios I 552 565, 577 582 57. John III 566 577 58. Eutychios II 577 582 59. John IV 582 595 60. Kyriakos II 595 607 61. Thomas I 607 610 62. Serios I 610 638 63. Pyrros 638 641, 652 654 64. Paulos II 641 652 65. Pyrros II (same person as Pyrros I above) 66. Petros 652 664 67. Thomas II 665 668 68. John V 668 674 69. Constantine I 674 676 70. Theodoros I 676 678, 683 686 71. Georgios I 678 683 72. Paulos III 686 693 73. Kallinikos I 693 705 74. Kyros 705 711 75. John VI 711 715 76. Germanos I the Confessor 715 730 77. Anastasios 730 751 78. Constantine II 754 766 79. Niketas the Slav 766 780 80. Paulos IV 780 784 81. Tarasios 784 806 82. Nikephoros I 806 815 83. Theodotos Melissenos 815 821 84. Antonios I, Kasymatas 821 826 85. John VIII the Grammatikos 826 842 86. Methodios I the Confessor 842 846 87. Prince Ignatios I 846 857, 867 878 88. Photios I 857 867, 878 886 89. Prince Stephanos I 886 893 90. Antonios II, kavleas 893 895 91. Nikolaos I, the Mystic 895 906, 911 925 92. Euthymios I 906 911 93. Stephanos II 925 928 94. Tryphon 928 931 95. Theophylactos, Lakapenos 923 956 96. Polyeuctos 956 970 97. Vasilios I, Skamandrenos 970 974 98. Antonios III, Skandalios 974 980 99. Nikolaos II, Chrysoverges 984 995
100. Michael the Syrian 990
Leontius 993
John 1015
Theopemtus 1037
Hilarion 1051
George 1072
John II 1080
John III 1089
Ephraim 1096
Nicholas 1098
Nicephorus 1108
Nicetas 1124
Michael II 1127
Clement 1197
Constantine 1136
Theodore 1160
John IV 1164
Constantine II 1167
Nicephorus II 1185
Matthew 1201
Kyrill I 1205
Joseph 1240
Kyrill II 1250
maximus 1283
Peter 1308
Theognostes 1328
Alexis 1353
Cyprian 1380
Photius 1410
Isidore 1432
Jonah 1448
Theodosius 1462
Philip I 1467
Gerontius 1472
Zosimus 1491
Simon 1496
Barlaam 1511
Daniel 1522
Joasaph 1539
Macarius 1542
Athanasius 1654
Philip 1565
Cyrill III 1568
Anthony 1572
Dionysius 1582
Job 1587
Hermogenes 1606
Philaret 1620
Joasaph I 1631
Joseph 1642
Nikon 1653
Joasaph II 1667
Pitirim 1672
Joachim 1673
Adrian 1690
Mar Stephen of Rostov 1701
The Most Holy Synod 1721 1918
Nikon, Patriarch of Moscow, The Most Holy Synod
Macarius (Makarij) Meveskij 1884 1917
Evdokim Basil Mikhailovich Meschersky 1903
+Aftimos (Abdullah Ofiesh) 1917
Ignatius (William Nichols) 1932
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Georgius (George W. Plummer) 1934
Henry Joseph Kleefisch 1957
Charles H. Hampton
Lowell Wadle
Herman A, Spruit
Hughes 1978
Mary Theresa Mohring Shultz
Catherine Adams 1993
Anthony F. Hash 1996
Michael J. Carroll 2003
Frederick Salvato 2004
James M Long 2006
Bryan T. Marabanian 2008
William J. M. Smith, OSB 2009
Peter, 38;
Evodus 40;
Ignatius I, 43;
Aaron, 123;
Cornelius, 123;
Eodos, 142;
Theophulus, 157;
Maximinus, 171;
Seraphim, 179;
Astlediaes, 189;
Philip, 201;
Sebinus {Zebinus},219;
Babylos, 237;
Fabius, 250;
Demetrius, 251;
Paul I, 259;
Domnus I, 270;
Timotheus, 281;
Cyrilus, 281;
Tyrantus, 296;
Vitalius, 301;
Philognius, 318;
Eustachius, 323;
Paulinius, 338;
Philabianus, 383;
Evagrius, 386;
Phosohorius, 416;
Alexander, 418;
John I, 428;
Theodotus, 431;
Domnus II, 442;
Maximus, 450;
Accacius, 454;
Martyrius, 457;
Peter II, 464;
Philadius, 500;
Serverius, 509;
Segius, 544;
Domnus III, 547;
Anadtasius, 560;
Gregory I, 564;
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The Apostolic Succession from The African Orthodox Church SYRIAN – MALANKARESE (AFRICAN ORTHODOX) SUCCESSION
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Patra, 571;
Domnus IV, 586;
Julianus, 591;
Athanasius I, 595;
John II, 636;
Theodorus I, 649;
Severus, 668;
Athanasius II, 684;
Julianus II, 687;
Elias I, 709;
Athanasius III 724;
Evanius I, 740;
Gervasius I, 759;
Joseph, 790;
Cyriacus, 793;
Dionysius I, 818;
John III, 847;
Ignatius II, 877;
Theodosius, 887;
Dionysius II 897;
John IV, 910;
Basilus I, 922;
John V, 936;
Evanius II, 954;
Dionysius III, 958;
Abraham I, 962;
John VI, 965,
Athamasius IV, 987;
John VII, 1004;
Dionysius IV, 1032;
Theodorus II, 1042;
Athanasius V, 1058;
John VIII, 1064;
Basilius II, 1074;
Abdoone, 1076;
Dionysius V, 1077;
Evanius III, 1080;
Dionysius VI, 1088;
Athanasius VI, 1091;
John IX, 1131;
Athanasius VII, 1139;
Michael I, 1167;
Athanasius VIII, 1200;
Michael II, 1207;
John X, 1208;
Ignatius III, 1223;
Dionysius VII, 1253;
John XI, 1253;
Ignatius IV, 1264;
Philanus, 1283;
Ignatius Baruhid, 1293;
Ignatius Ismael, 1333;
Ignatius Basilius III, 1366;
Ignatius Abraham II, 1382;
Ignatius Bacalius IV, 1412;
Ignatius Behanam I, 1415;
Ignatius Kalejih, 1455;
Ignatius John XII, 1483;
Ignatius Noah, 1492;
Ignatius Jesus I, 1509;
Ignatius Jacob I, 1510;
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Ignatius David I, 1519;
Ignatius Abdullah I, 1520;
Ignatius Naamathalak, 1557;
Ignatius David II, 1577;
Ignatius Philathus, 1591;
Ignatius Abdullah II, 1597;
Ignatius Cadhai, 1598;
Ignatius Simeon, 1640;
Ignatius Jesus II, 1661;
Ignatius Messiah, 1661;
Ignatius Cabeeb, 1686;
Ignatius Gervasius II, 1687;
Ignatius Isaac, 1708;
Ignatius Siccarablak, 1722;
Ignatius Gervasius III, 1746;
Ignatius Gervasius IV, 1768;
Ignatius Mathias, 1781;
Ignatius Behanam, 1810;
Ignatius Jonas, 1817;
Ignatius Gervasius V, 1818;
Ignatius Elias II, 1839;
Ignatius Jacob II, 1847;
Mar Ignatius Peter III, 1872.
Paulose Mar Athanasius (Kadavil Kooran) was consecrated on December 4, 1907 by Mar Ignatius Peter III as Syrian Antioch Bishop of Kottayam and Metropolitan of Malabar (India).
Mar Julius I (Antonio Francis Xavier Alvares) was consecrated July 28, 1889, by Paulose Mar Athanasius, under authority of Patriarch Ignatius Peter III to be Archbishop of the Latin Rite Independent Catholic Church of Ceylon, Goa and India.
Mar Timotheus I (Joseph Rene Villate) 1892
Samuel G. Lines 1923
Justin Joseph Andre Boyle 1927
Wadle 1930
Spruit 1957
Hughes 1978
Mary Theresa Mohring Shultz
Catherine Adams 1993
Anthony Hash
Michael Carroll
Frederick Salvato (2004)
James M Long (2006)
Bryan T. Marabanian (2008)
William J. M. Smith, OSB (2009)
The Johannine & Anglo-Roman Successions JOHANINE SUCCESSION – ROMAN-ANGLICAN SUCCESSION
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1. St. John the Evangelist 2. Polycarp 3. Pothinus 4. Irenaeus 5. Zaccharius 6. Elias 7. Faustinus 8. Verus 9. Julius 10. Ptolemy 11. Vocius 12. Maximus 13. Tetradus 14. Verissimus
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FORMOSUS as Bishop of Porto (later Pope in 891) who in 891
St. PLEGMUND as Archbishop of Canterbury who in 909
ALTHELM as Bishop of Wells ( Canterbury) who in 914 consecrated
WULFHELM as Bishop of Wells ( Canterbury) who in 927 consecrated
ODO as Bishop of Ramsbury ( Canterbury) who in 957 consecrated
St. DUNSTAN as Bishop of Worcester ( Canterbury) who in 984 consecrated
St. AELPHEGE as Bishop of Winchester ( Canterbury) who in 990 consecrated
ELFRIC as Bishop of Ramsbury ( Canterbury) who in 1003 consecrated
WULFSTAN as Bishop of Worcester and York who on the 13th November 1020 consecrated
ETHELNOTH as Archbishop of Canterbury who in 1035 consecrated
EADSIGE as Bishop of St. Martin's, Canterbury who on the 3rd April 1043 consecrated
STIGAND as Bishop of Elmham ( Canterbury) who in 1058 consecrated
SIWARD as Bishop of Rochester on the 29th September 1070 assisted William, Bishop of London at the consecration of
NOTE: from this point on you will see an increase of French bishops. After 1066 most of the bishops in England were Norman. The Church in Wales and Ireland remained Anglo Saxon Celtic for much longer.
Bl. LANFRANC as Archbishop of Canterbury, who in 1070 consecrated
THOMAS as Archbishop of York, who on the 4th December 1094 consecrated
ST. ANSELM as Archbishop of Canterbury, who on the 26th July 1108 consecrated
RICHARD DE BELMEIS as Bishop of London, who on the 18th February 1123 consecrated
WILLIAM OF CORBEUIL as Abp. of Canterbury, who on the 17th Nov 1129 consecrated
HENRY OF BLOIS as Bishop of Winchester, who on the 3rd June 1162 consecrated
ST. THOMAS BECKET as Archbishop of Canterbury, who on the 23rd Aug1164 consecrated
105 15. Justis 16. Albinus 17. Martin 18. Antiochus 19. Elpidius 20. Licarius 21. Eucherius I 22. Patieus 23. Lupicinius 24. Rusticu 25. Stephanus 26. Viventiolus 27. Lucherius II 28. Lupus 29. Licontius 30. Sacerdos 31. Nicetus 32. Priscus 33. Aetherius 34. St. Augustine of Canterbury 35. LAURENTIUS 36. MELLITUS 37. JUSTUS 38. HONORIUS 39. DEUSDEDIT 40. THEODORE 41. BERHTWALD 42. TATWINE 43. NOTHELM 44. CUTHBERT 45. BREGOWINE 46. JAENBERT 47. ETHELHARD 48. WULFRED 49. FEOLOGELD 50. CEOLNOTH 51. ETHELRED The direct Papal line enters into Canterbury with Pope Nicholas I. 52. POPE
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73. ROGER OF GLOUCESTER as Bishop of Worcester, who on the 7th Nov 1176 consecrated
74. PETER DE LEIA as Bishop of St. David's, who on the 29th September 1185 assisted Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury, at the consecration of
75. GILBERT GLANVILLE as Bishop of Rochester, who on the 23rd May 1199 assisted Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury, at the consecration of
WILLIAM OF S. MERE L'EGLISE who on the 5th October 1214 assisted Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury, at the consecration of
WALTER DE GRAY as Bishop of Worcester ( Archbishop of York), who on the 5th December 1249 consecrated
78. WALTER KIRKHAM as Bishop of Durham, who on the 7th February 1255 consecrated
HENRY as Bishop of Whithern, who on the 9th January 1284 assisted William Wickwane, Archbishop of York, at the consecration of
ANTHONY BECK as Bishop of Durham ( Patriarch of Jerusalem) who on the 14th September 1292 consecrated
81. JOHN OF HALTON as Bishop of Carlisle, who on the 27th June 1322 assisted Thomas Cobham, Bishop of Worcester, at the consecration of ROGER NORTHBOROUGH as Bishop of Lichfield, who on the 15th July 1330 assisted Henry Burghersh, Bishop of Lincoln, at the consecration of
82. ROBERT WYVIL as Bishop of Salisbury, who on the 12th March 1340 consecrated
83. RALPH STRATFORD as Bishop of London, who on the 15th May 1346 assisted John Stratford, Archbishop of Canterbury , at the consecration of
84. WILLIAM EDENDON as Bishop of Winchester, who on the 20th March 1362 consecrated
85. IMON SUDBURY as Bishop of London, (later Archbishop of Canterbury) who on the 12th of May 1370 consecrated
86. THOMAS BRENTINGHAM as Bishop of Exeter, who on the 5th January 1382 consecrated
ROBERT BRAYBROOKE as Bishop of London, who on the 3rd February 1398 consecrated
ROGER WALDEN as Archbishop of Canterbury, who on the 14th July 1398 consecrated
HENRY BEAUFORT as Bishop of Lincoln, who in 1405 became Bishop of Winchester and on the 15th May 1435 consecrated
90. THOMAS BOURCHIER as Bishop of Worcester ( Ely, 1454 Canterbury) who on the 31st January 1479 consecrated
JOHN MORTON as Bishop of Ely ( Canterbury) who on the 21st May 1497 consecrated
RICHARD FITZJAMES as Bishop of Rochester ( Chichester, 1506 London) who on the 25th September 1502 consecrated
WILLIAM WARHAM as Bishop of London ( Canterbury) who on the 15th May 1521 consecrated
JOHN LONGLANDS as Bishop of Lincoln who on the 30th March 1533 consecrated
THOMAS CRANMER as Archbishop of Canterbury who in June 1536 consecrated
WILLIAM BARLOW as Bishop of St. David's ( Bath, 1559 Chichester), who on the 17th December 1559 consecrated
97. MATTHEW PARKER as Archbishop of Canterbury who, four days later, consecrated
98. EDMUND GRINDAL as Bishop of London ( York, 1576 Canterbury) who on the 21st April 1577 consecrated
99. JOHN WHITGIFT as Bishop of Worcester ( Canterbury) who on the 8th May 1597 consecrated 100. RICHARD BANCROFT as Bishop of London ( Canterbury) who on the 3rd December 1609 consecrated
101. GEORGE ABBOT as Bishop of Lichfield ( London, 1611 Canterbury) who on the 14th December 1617 consecrated
102. GEORGE MONTAIGNE as Bishop of Lincoln ( London, 1628 Durham, 1628 York)who on the 18th November 1621 consecrated
103. Bl. WILLIAM LAUD as Bishop of St. David's ( Bath, 1628 London, 1633 Canterbury) who on the 17th June 1638 consecrated
104. BRIAN DUPPA as Bishop of Chichester ( Salisbury, 1660 Winchester) who on the 28th October 1660 consecrated
105. GILBERT SHELDON as Bishop of London ( Canterbury) who on the 6th December 1674 consecrated
106. HENRY COMPTON as Bishop of Oxford ( London) who on the 27th January 1678 consecrated
107. WILLIAM SANCROFT, Archbishop of Canterbury who was a "non juror" (Please look at this page. A discussion of the NONJURORS ) who on the 25th October 1685 did consecrate
108. THOMAS WHITE as Bishop of Peterborough, who was deposed in 1690 as a non juror and on the 24th February 1693, under Royal Warrant from the exiled King James II, consecrated
109. GEORGE HICKES as Bishop of Thetford, a Non juror who on the 24th February 1712 consecrated
110. JAMES GADDERAR (consecrated without a See; later Bishop of Aberdeen and Moray), who on the 4th June 1727 consecrated
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112. WILLIAM FALCONAR as Bishop of Ross and Caithness, of the Scottish Episcopal Church who on the 21st September 1768 consecrated
113. ROBERT KILGOUR as Bishop of Aberdeen, who was consecrated 12 Feb 1775 by Frederick Corwallis, who was consecrated 19 Feb 1750 by Thomas Herring... on the 14th November 1784 consecrated
114. SAMUEL SEABURY A crucial date for members of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America is the consecration of the first Bishop of the Anglican Communion in the United States. In Aberdeen, 14 November 1784, Samuel Seabury was consecrated to the Episcopate by the Bishop and the Bishop Coadjutor of Aberdeen and the Bishop of Ross and Caithness. He thus became part of the unbroken chain of bishops that links the Church today with the Church of the Apostles.
SAMUEL SEABURY, Bishop of Connecticut, of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the USA, on the 17th September 1792 did consecrate +Claggett of PECUSA
115. T. J. CLAGGETT as Bishop of Maryland, who on the 7th May 1797 consecrated 116. EDWARD BASS as Bishop of Massachusetts who on the 18th October 1797 consecrated 117. ABRAHAM JARVIS as Bishop of Connecticut, who on the 29th May 1811 consecrated 118. V. GRISWOLD as Bishop of the Eastern Diocese, who on the 31st October 1832 consecrated 119. J. H. HOPKINS as Bishop of Vermont, 120. LEON CHECHEMIAN 1879
WILLIAM CROW 1943
HUGH GEORGE DeWILLMOTT NEWMAN 1944 123. Wallace David de Ortega Maxey
Lowell Paul Wadle April 7, 1957 125. Herman Adrian Spruit June 22, 1957 126. Frank Ellsworth Hughes 1978
Mary Theresa Mohring Shultz 128. Catherine Adams 1993
Anthony Hash
Michael Carroll
Frederick Salvato (2004)
James M Long (2006)
Bryan T. Marabanian (2008)
William J. M. Smith, OSB (2009)
ANTIOCHEAN-JACOBITE SUCCESSION
Peter, 38;
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Cornelius, 123;
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John I, 428;
Theodotus, 431;
Domnus II, 442;
Maximus, 450;
Accacius, 454;
Martyrius, 457;
Peter II, 464;
Philadius, 500;
Serverius, 509;
Segius, 544;
Domnus III, 547;
Anadtasius, 560;
Gregory I, 564;
Paul II, 567;
Patra, 571;
Domnus IV, 586;
Julianus, 591;
Athanasius I, 595;
John II, 636;
Theodorus I, 649;
Severus, 668;
Athanasius II, 684;
Julianus II, 687;
Elias I, 709;
Athanasius III 724;
Evanius I, 740;
Gervasius I, 759;
Joseph, 790;
Cyriacus, 793;
Dionysius I, 818;
John III, 847;
Ignatius II, 877;
Theodosius, 887;
Dionysius II 897;
John IV, 910;
()Basilus I, 922;
John V, 936;
Evanius II, 954;
Dionysius III, 958;
Abraham I, 962;
John VI, 965,
Athamasius IV, 987;
John VII, 1004;
Dionysius IV, 1032;
Theodorus II, 1042;
Athanasius V, 1058;
John VIII, 1064;
Basilius II, 1074;
Abdoone, 1076;
Dionysius V, 1077;
Evanius III, 1080;
()Dionysius VI, 1088;
Athanasius VI, 1091;
John IX, 1131;
Athanasius VII, 1139;
Michael I, 1167;
Athanasius VIII, 1200;
Michael II, 1207;
John X, 1208;
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John XI, 1253;
Ignatius IV, 1264;
Philanus, 1283;
Ignatius Baruhid, 1293;
Ignatius Ismael, 1333;
Ignatius Basilius III, 1366; 96. Ignatius Abraham II, 1382; 97. Ignatius Bacalius IV, 1412; 98. Ignatius Behanam I, 1415; 99. Ignatius Kalejih, 1455; 100. Ignatius John XII, 1483; 101. Ignatius Noah, 1492; 102. Ignatius Jesus I, 1509; 103. Ignatius Jacob I, 1510; 104. Ignatius David I, 1519; 105. Ignatius Abdullah I, 1520; 106. Ignatius Naamathalak, 1557; 107. Ignatius David II, 1577; 108. Ignatius Philathus, 1591; 109. Ignatius Abdullah II, 1597; 110. Ignatius Cadhai, 1598; 111. Ignatius Simeon, 1640; 112. Ignatius Jesus II, 1661; 113. Ignatius Messiah, 1661; 114. Ignatius Cabeeb, 1686; 115. Ignatius Gervasius II, 1687; 116. Ignatius Isaac, 1708; 117. Ignatius Siccarablak, 1722; 118. Ignatius Gervasius III, 1746; 119. Ignatius Gervasius IV, 1768; 120. Ignatius Mathias, 1781; 121. Ignatius Behanam, 1810; 122. Ignatius Jonas, 1817; 123. Ignatius Gervasius V, 1818; 124. Ignatius Elias II, 1839; 125. Ignatius Jacob II, 1847; 126. Mar Ignatius Peter III, 1872.
Paulose Mar Athanasius (Kadavil Kooran) was consecrated on December 4, 1907 by Mar Ignatius Peter III as Syrian Antioch Bishop of Kottayam and Metropolitan of Malabar (India).
Mar Julius I (Antonio Francis Xavier Alvares) was consecrated July 28, 1889, by Paulose Mar Athanasius, under authority of Patriarch Ignatius Peter III to be Archbishop of the Latin Rite Independent Catholic Church of Ceylon, Goa and India.
129. Joseph Rene Vilatte was consecrated on May 29, 1892 in Columba, Ceylon at Our Lady of Good Death Cathedral by Mar Julius I, under authority of a Bull of Mar Ignatius Peter III, to serve as Archbishop of North America.
Fredrick E. Lloyd, 1915;
Samuel Gregory Lines, 1923;
Justin Boyle, 1927;
Lowel Paul Wadle, 1940;
Herman Adrian Spruit, 1957;
Frank Ellsworth Hughes, 1978;
Martha Theresa Mohring Shultz, 1982;
Judy C. Adams, 1993;
Anthony Francis Hash, 1995.
Michael Carroll, 2002
Frederick “Francis Maria” Salvato, 2004
James M. Long (2006)
Bryan T. Marabanian (2008)
William J. M. Smith, OSB (2009)
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HEBREW-CELTIC SUCCESSION
110 1. JAMES the less: recognised by the other Apostles as the Bishop of Jerusalem 2. Simeon 3. Justus I 4. Zaccheus 5. Tobias 6. Benjamin 7. John I 8. Matthias 9. Philip 10. Seneca 11. Justus II 12. Levi 13. Ephraim 14. Joseph 15. Judas 16. Marcus 17. Cassianus 18. Publius 19. Maximus I 20. Julian 21. Caius 22. Symmachus 23. Caius II 24. Julian II 25. Maximus II 26. Antonius 27. Capito 28. Valius 29. Daleanus 30. Narcissus 31. Dius 32. Germanio 33. Gordius 34. Alexander 35. Nazabancs 36. Hymenacus 37. Zamboas 38. Herman 39. Marcarius I 40. Maximus III 41. Cyril 42. Herenius 43. Hilary 44. John II 45. Praglius 46. Juvenal 47. Anastacius 48. Martyrius 49. Salutis 50. Elias 51. John III of Jerusalem 52. ST. DAVID: consecrated first Celtic Bishop of Mineva, St. David's, Wales (AD 519) 53. Cynog 54. Teilo 55. Ceven 56. Morfall 57. Haerwneu 58. Elwaed 59. Gwrnwen 60. Llumverth 61. Gwrgwyst 62. Gwgan
Sulhaithnay
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Llunwerth
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Ervin
Trahacarn
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Rhyddmarch
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D. Martin
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J. Thorsby
R. Brian
F. Fastolfe
H. Doughton
J. Gilbert
G. deMona
H. CHICHELEY: Bishop of of the Celtic Church in Wales made Archbishop of Canterbury by Rome (1408)
J. Stalford
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THOMAS BOURCHIER as Bishop of Worcester (1443 Ely, 1454 Canterbury) who on the 31st January 1479 consecrated
JOHN MORTON as Bishop of Ely (1486 Canterbury) who on the 21st May 1497 consecrated
RICHARD FITZJAMES as Bishop of Rochester (1503 Chichester, 1506 London) who on the 25th September 1502 consecrated
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123. JOHN LONGLANDS as Bishop of Lincoln who on the 30th March 1533 consecrated
124. THOMAS CRANMER as Archbishop of Canterbury who in June 1536 consecrated
125. WILLIAM BARLOW as Bishop of St. David's (1549 Bath, 1559 Chichester), who on the 17th December 1559 consecrated
126. MATTHEW PARKER as Archbishop of Canterbury who, four days later, consecrated
127. EDMUND GRINDAL as Bishop of London (1570 York, 1576 Canterbury) who on the 21st April 1577 consecrated
128. JOHN WHITGIFT as Bishop of Worcester (1583 Canterbury) who on the 8th May 1597 consecrated
129. RICHARD BANCROFT as Bishop of London (1604 Canterbury) who on the 3rd December 1609 consecrated
130. GEORGE ABBOT as Bishop of Lichfield (1610 London, 1611 Canterbury) who on the 14th December 1617 consecrated
131. GEORGE MONTAIGNE as Bishop of Lincoln (1621 London, 1628 Durham, 1628 York)who on the 18th November 1621 consecrated
132. Bl. WILLIAM LAUD as Bishop of St. David's (1626 Bath, 1628 London, 1633 Canterbury) who on the 17th June 1638 consecrated
133. BRIAN DUPPA as Bishop of Chichester (1641 Salisbury, 1660 Winchester) who on the 28th October 1660 consecrated
134. GILBERT SHELDON as Bishop of London (1663 Canterbury) who on the 6th December 1674 consecrated
135. HENRY COMPTON as Bishop of Oxford (1675 London) who on the 27th January 1678 consecrated
136. WILLIAM SANCROFT, Archbishop of Canterbury who was a "non juror’ who on the 25th October 1685 did consecrate
137. THOMAS WHITE as Bishop of Peterborough, who was deposed in 1690 as a non juror and on the 24th February 1693, under Royal Warrant from the exiled King James II, consecrated 138. GEORGE HICKES as Bishop of Thetford, a Non juror who on the 24th February 1712 consecrated
139. JAMES GADDERAR (consecrated without a See; later Bishop of Aberdeen and Moray), who on the 4th June 1727 consecrated
140. THOMAS RATTRAY as Bishop of Dunkold, of the Scottish Episcopal Church who in 1741 consecrated 141. WILLIAM FALCONAR as Bishop of Ross and Caithness, of the Scottish Episcopal Church who on the 21st September 1768 consecrated
142. ROBERT KILGOUR as Bishop of Aberdeen, who was consecrated 12 Feb 1775 by Frederick Corwallis, who was consecrated 19 Feb 1750 by Thomas Herring... on the 14th November 1784 consecrated 143. SAMUEL SEABURY A crucial date for members of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America is the consecration of the first Bishop of the Anglican Communion in the United States. In Aberdeen, 14 November 1784, Samuel Seabury was consecrated to the Episcopate by the Bishop and the Bishop Coadjutor of Aberdeen and the Bishop of Ross and Caithness. He thus became part of the unbroken chain of bishops that links the Church today with the Church of the Apostles.
SAMUEL SEABURY, Bishop of Connecticut, of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the USA, on the 17th September 1792 did consecrate +Claggett of PECUSA
T. J. CLAGGETT as Bishop of Maryland, who on the 7th May 1797 consecrated
EDWARD BASS as Bishop of Massachusetts who on the 18th October 1797 consecrated
ABRAHAM JARVIS as Bishop of Connecticut, who on the 29th May 1811 consecrated
A. V. GRISWOLD as Bishop of the Eastern Diocese, who on the 31st October 1832 consecrated
J. H. HOPKINS as Bishop of Vermont,
LEON CHECHEMIAN 1879
WILLIAM CROW 1943
HUGH GEORGE DeWILLMOTT NEWMAN 1944
Wallace David de Ortega Maxey
Lowell Paul Wadle April 7, 1957
Herman Adrian Spruit June 22, 1957
Frank Ellsworth Hughes 1978
Mary Theresa Shultz
Catherine Adams
Frederick “Francis Maria” Salvato
James M. Long (2006)
Bryan T. Marabanian (2008)
William J. M. Smith, OSB (2009)
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Armenian Succession
St. THADDEUS (circ. A.D. 50)
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St. Zakaria 68 76
St. Zementus 76 81
St. Atirnerseh 81 97
St. Mousche 97 128
St. Schahen 128 154)
St. Schavarsch (154 175)
St. Ghevondius (175 193)
St. Mehroujan (230 260) Armenia is Illuminated and the Armenian Catholic Church established.
St. Gregory the Illuminator 301 325
St. Aristakes I Parthian 325 333
St. Vertanes I Parthian 333 341
St. Houssik I Parthian 341 347
Paren I Aschtischat 348 352
St. Nerses I The Great 353 373
Sahak I of Manazkert 373 377
Zaven I of Manazkert 377 381
Aspourakes of Manazkert 381 386
St. Sahak I The Great 387 439
St. Hovsep I of Hoghotzim 440 452
Melitus I of Manazkert 452 456
Movses I of Manazkert 456 461
St. Gut I of Araheze 461 478
St. Hovhannes I Mandakouni 478 490
Babken I of Othmous
Samuel I of Ardzke
Mousche I of Ailaberk
Sahak II of Ouhki
Kristapor I of Tiraritch
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Gueorg II of Garni 878 898
St. Maschtotz I of Eghivart 898 899
Hovhannes V of Draskhonakert 899 931
Stepanos II Rischtouni 931 932
Theodoros I Rischtouni 932 938
Yeghische I Rischtouni 938 943
Anania I of Moks 943 967
Vahan I Suni 967 969
Stepanos III of Sevan 969 971
Khatchik I Arscharouni 972 992
Sarkis I of Sevan 992 1019
Petros I Guetadartz 1019 1054
Khatchik II of Ani 1054 1060
seat moved to Cilicia. Union with Rome is re established
Grigor II Vikaiasser 1065 1105
Barsegh I of Ani 1105 1113
Grigor III Pahlavouni 1113 1166
St. Nerses IV Schnorhali 1166 1173
Grigor IV Tegha 1173 1193
Grigor V Karavege 1193 1194
Grigor VI Apirat 1194 1203
Hovhannes VI Medzabaro 1203 1221
Constantine I of Bartzrberd 1221 1267
Hacob I of Kla 1267 1286
Constantine II Pronagortz 1286 1289
Stepanos IV of Rhomkla 1290 1293
Grigor VII of Anavarza 1293 1307
Constantine III of Caesarea 1307 1322
Constantine IV of Lambron 1322 1326
Hacob II of Tarsus 1327 1341
Mekhitar I of Grner 1341 1355
Mesrob I of Ardaze 1359 1372
Constantine V of Sis 1372 1374
Poghos I of Sis 1374 1377
Theodoros II of Cilicia 1377 1392
Karapet I of Keghy 1393 1408
Hacob III of Sis 1408 1411
Grigor VIII Khantzoghat 1411 1416
Poghos II of Garni 1416 1429
Constantine VI of Vahka 1429 1439
Grigor IX Moussabeguian 1439 1441
Etchmiadzin Schism: the original succession of Catholicoi continue in Cilicia
Grigor I. Moussabeguian 1441 1450
Garabed Yevtogatsi 1446 1477
Stepanos Saratsortsi 1475 1483
Hovhannes I Andiokatsi 1483 1488
Hovhannes II Tulgurantsi 1489 1525
Hovhannes III Kilistsi 1525 1539
Simeon Zeitountsi 1539 1545
Ghazar Zeitountsi 1545 1577
Toros Sisetsi 1578 1553
Khachadour I Chorig 1553 1558
Khachadour II Zeitountsi 1560 1584
Azaria I Jughayetsi 1584 1601
Hovhannes IV Aintabtsi 1602 1621
Bedros I Gargaretsi* 1602 1608
Minas Gonnetsi 1621 1632
Simeon II Sebastiatsi 1633 1648
Nerses Sebastiatsi 1648 1654
Toros II Sebastiatsi 1654 1657
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Sahak I Meykhaneji 1677 1683
Azaria II Gargaretsi 1683 1686
Grigor II Adanatsi 1686 1695
Asdvadzadour Sasuntsi 1695 1703
Madteos Gesaratsi 1703 1705
Hovhannes V Hajentsi 1705 1721
Grigor III Gesaratsi 1721/2 1729
Ghougas Sisetsi Atchabahian 1731 1737
The Renewed Patriarchate:
Armenian Catholics choose autonomy to definitively re unite with Roman Church
Abraham Peter Ardzivian 1737 1749
Jacob Peter Hovsepian 1749 1753
Michael Peter Kasparian 1753 1780
Basil Peter Avkadian 1780 1788
Gregory Peter Kupelian 1788 1812
Gregory Peter II Djeranian 1812 1841
Jacob Peter II Holassian 1841 1843
Gregory Peter III Derasdvazadourian 1843 1866
Anthony Peter Hassoun 1866 1880
Chorchorunian 1874
Leon Chechemian, 23 April 1878
Andrew Charles Albert McLagen November 2, 1897
James Heard June 4, 1922
William Bernard Crow June 13, 1943
Hugh George De Willmott Newman April 10, 1944 140. Wallace David de Ortega Maxey 141. Lowell Paul Wadle April 7, 1957 142. Herman Adrian Spruit June 22, 1957 143. Frank Ellsworth Hughes 1978 144. Mary Theresa Mohring Shultz 145. Catherine Adams 1993 146. Anthony Hash 147. Michael Carroll 148. Fred “Francia Maria” Salvato 149.James M. Long 150. Bryan Marabanian 151. William J. M. Smith, OSB (2009)
Date/Year of Ordination
Marabanian Long McCormick Succession Roman Line
1541 Scipione Cardinal Rebiba 3/12/1566 Giulio Antonio Santoro
9/7/1586 Girolamo Benerio, O.P. 4/4/1604 Galeazzo Sanvitale 5/2/1621 Lodovico Ludovisi 6/12/1622 Luigi Caetani
6/12/1622 Giovanni Battista Scanaroli
10/24/1655 Antonio Cardinal Barberini
11/11/1668 Charles Maurice Letellier
9/21/1670 Jacques Benigne Bossuet 4/16/1673 Jacques de Goyon de Matignon 2/19/1719 Dominique Marie Varlet
10/18/1739 Petrus Johannes Meindaerts 1745 Johannes Van Stiphout 2/7/1768 Walter Van Nieuwenhuisen
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1778 Adrian Broekman
7/5/1797 Johannes Jacobus Van Rhijn
11/7/1805 Gijsbert De Jong
4/24/1814 Willibrord Van Os 4/14/1814 Johannes Bon
11/3/1825 Johannes Van Santen
1853 Herman Heykamp
8/11/1873 Gaspard Johannes Rinkel 5/11/1892 Gerardus Gul
4/28/1908 Arnold Harris Mathew
6/29/1913 De Landes Berghes
10/4/1916 Carmel Henry Carfora
6/17/1945 Earl Anglin James 12/25/1950 Grant Timothy Billet
10/23/1979 Norman R. Parr
7/14/1991 Maurice Darryl McCormick
4/22/2006 James M. Long
7/4/2008 Bryan Timothy Marabanian 5/17/2009 William J. M. Smith, OSB
Date/Year of Ordination
Marabanian -Long-McCormick Succession
1872 Mar Ignatius Peter II
1877 Mar Paul Athanasius
7/29/1889 Julius Alvarez
5/6/1900 Paolo Miraglia Guilaotte
1911 Carmel Henry Carfora 6/17/1945 Earl Anglin James 12/25/1950 Grant Timothy Billet
10/23/1979 Norman R. Parr
7/14/1991 Maurice Darryl McCormick
4/22/2006 James M. Long 7/4/2008 Bryan Timothy Marabanian 5/17/2009 William Joseph Meadors Smith, OSB
Date/Year of Ordination
Utrecht Line
1872 Mar Ignatius Peter II
Unknown Julius Alvarez
5/29/1892 Joseph Rene Villate
1915 Frederick E. Lloyd
1928 Justin A. Boyle
1940 Lowell Paul Wadle
1957 Adrian Spruit
1988 Paul Michael Clemens
7/14/1991 Joseph Phillip Sousa
10/10/1993 Willibrord Van Campent
11/14/1993 Carl Thomas Swaringim
2/3/1996 Maurice McCormick 4/22/2006 James M. Long
Marabanian - LongMcCormick Succession
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7/4/2008 Bryan Timothy Marabanian 5/17/2009 William Joseph Meadors Smith, OSB
Date/Year of Ordination
Long-McCormick Succession Duarte Costa Line
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba 3/12/1566 Giulio Antonio Santoro
1541
9/7/1586 Girolamo Benerio, O.P. 4/4/1604 Galeazzo Sanvitale 5/2/1621 Lodovico Ludovisi 6/12/1622 Luigi Caetani
9/23/1630 Ulderico Carpena 5/2/1666
Paluzzi Alteri degli Albertoni 2/3/1675 Vincenzo Maria Orsinide Gravina, O.P. 6/16/1724 Pope Benedict XIV (Lorenzo Lambertini)
3/19/1743 Pope Clement XIII (Carlo della Torre Rezzonico) 4/26/1767 Bernardinus Cardinal Giraud 2/23/1777 Alessandro Cardinal Mattei 9/12/1819 Pietro Francisco Cardinal Galeffi 12/8/1822 Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni
6/8/1851 Carlo Cardinal Sacconi
6/30/1872 Edward Cardinal Howard 12/8/1882 Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tinardo 10/26/1890 Joaquim Cardinal Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti
6/4/1911 Sebastião Leme Cardinal da Silveira Cintra 12/8/1924 Carlos Duarte Costa
8/15/1945 Salomâo Ferraz 6/29/1951 Manoel Ceia Laranjeira 11/19/1969 Viktor Ivan Busà 8/10/1972 Frederick Charles King
After 1972 sub cond. Emile Federico Rodriguez y Durand (Fairfield)
1990 George Augustus Stallings
1996 Carlos Enrique Harvin 1/18/2004 Francis Maria (Frederick) Salvato 4/22/2006 James M. Long 7/4/2008 Bryan Timothy Marabanian 5/17/2009 William Joseph Meadors Smith, OSB
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Date/Year of Ordination
1541
Delaney Succession Roman Line
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba
3/12/1566 Giulio Antonio Santoro
9/7/1586
Girolamo Benerio, O.P.
4/4/1604 Galeazzo Sanvitale
5/2/1621 Lodovico Ludovisi
6/12/1622 Luigi Caetani
9/23/1630 Ulderico Carpena
5/2/1666
2/3/1675
6/16/1724
3/19/1743
4/26/1767
2/23/1777
Paluzzi Alteri degli Albertoni
Vincenzo Maria Orsinide Gravina,OP
Pope Benedict XIV (Lorenzo Lambertini)
Pope Clement XIII (Carlo della Torre Rezzonico)
Bernardinus Cardinal Giraud
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei
9/12/1819 Pietro Francisco Cardinal Galeffi
12/8/1822 Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni
6/8/1851 Carlo Cardinal Sacconi
6/30/1872 Edward Cardinal Howard
12/8/1882
Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tinardo
10/26/1890 Joaquim Cardinal Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti
6/4/1911
Sebastião Leme Cardinal da Silveira Cintra
12/8/1924 Carlos Duarte Costa
8/15/1945 Salomâo Ferraz
6/29/1951
Manoel Ceia Laranjeira 11/19/1969 Viktor Ivan Busà
8/10/1972 Frederick Charles King
After 1972 sub cond. Emile Federico Rodriguez y Durand (Fairfield) 5/12/1990 George Augustus Stallings 1996 Carlos Enrique Harvin
1/18/2004 Steven E. Delaney
7/4/3008 Bryan Timothy Marabanian
5/17/2009 William Joseph Meadors Smith, OSB
Date/Year of Ordination
Thomas Succession - Roman Line
Bishop Marabanian and Bishop Smith share the same lines from Bishop Michael Thomas, who was Bishop Smith’s Principal Consecrator 1541
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba
3/12/1566 Giulio Antonio Santoro
9/7/1586
Girolamo Benerio, O.P.
4/4/1604 Galeazzo Sanvitale
5/2/1621
Lodovico Ludovisi
6/12/1622 Luigi Caetani
6/12/1622 Giovanni Battista Scanaroli
10/24/1655 Antonio Cardinal Barberini 11/11/1668 Charles Maurice Letellier
9/21/1670 Jacques Benigne Bossuet 4/16/1673 Jacques de Goyon de Matignon
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2/19/1719
10/18/1739
1745
Dominique Marie Varlet
Petrus Johannes Meindaerts
Johannes Van Stiphout
Walter Van Nieuwenhuisen 1778 Adrian Broekman
2/7/1768
7/5/1797 Johannes Jacobus Van Rhijn
11/7/1805 Gijsbert De Jong
4/24/1814 Willibrord Van Os
4/14/1814 Johannes Bon
11/3/1825 Johannes Van Santen 1853 Herman Heykamp
8/11/1873 Gaspard Johannes Rinkel
5/11/1892 Gerardus Gul
4/28/1908 Arnold Harris Mathew
6/29/1913
De Landes Berghes
10/4/1916 Carmel Henry Carfora
6/17/1945 Earl Anglin James
12/25/1950 Grant Timothy Billet
10/23/1979 Norman R. Parr
7/14/1991 Maurice Darryl McCormick
9/21/1997 Irwin Young
11/21/1998 Paul Victor Verharen
4/19/2003 Bruce D. Campbell 2004 Charles E. Klughart
11/19/2005 D. Michael Thomas
7/4/2008 Bryan Timothy Marabanian
5/17/2009 William Joseph Meadors Smith, OSB
ADDITIONAL LINES DERIVED FROM BISHOP MICHAEL CARROLL
Bishop Michael Carroll’s consecrator, Archbishop Anthony Hash imparted the following lines of Succession through Mar Georgius I, Patriarch of Glastonbuery and Catholicos of the West: During and after the Second World War, Mar Georgius I, Patriarch of Glastonbury and Catholicos of the West began unifying the various strands of Old Catholics and independent Catholics. By 1956, through sub conditione consecrations, he had accumulated all sixteen lines of Apostolic succession known to exist: Syrian Antiochene, Syrian Malabar, Syrian Gallican, Syro Chaldean, Chaldean Uniate, Coptic Orthodox, Armenian Uniate, Order of Corporate Reunion, Old Catholic, Mariavite, Nonjuring, Anglican, Russian Orthodox, Russo Syrian Orthodox, Greek Melkite, and Liberal Catholic.
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1. Armenian Uniate 2. Syro-Chaldean 3. Byzantine Uniate 4. Orthodox Patriarchate: (Constantinople) 5. Russian Orthodox 6. Syrian-Malabar 7. Syrian-Gallican: Alvares (Mar Julius I) 8. Coptic/Coptic Uniate 9: Old Greek Melchite (Byzantine) 11: Syrian-Melkite Uniate 12: Malankara Orthodox
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