Apostolic Succession

Apostolic Successions of the
Universal Church of Autogenes

Apostolic Succession in General
Since the time of the Apostles, the Church catholic (universal) has existed. During the course of history, many branches of the One, Catholic, and Apostolic Church have evolved. One thing remains constant with all the branches, however, that each has maintained an unbroken line of succession from Christ and the Apostles to the present. The Apostles were the original Bishops of the Church, and their authority as episcopos has been passed down to this day.

There are many Rites in the One, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. In designating the unity of these many Rites, the word catholic is used to mean universal, and does not infer preference to any one particular denomination. Such denominations would include the Roman Rite, Anglican Rite, Celtic Rite, and Orthodox Rite, to suggest a few—in addition to the many that go unnamed. There have been many Bishops who continued the lineage and served the teachings of Christ in a relatively unstructured way. Due to political factions, human disagreements, and poorly kept records, the fog of history has obscured some lines of succession.

Oftentimes, missing records have been used to justify accusations of invalid authority. At the same time, other more devoted clergy and diligent scholars have set aside differences in favor of unity and historical accuracy. It is consistently true throughout history that the authority and character of the Apostolic Church have been preserved less by doctrine and more by the lineages of consecrated leadership. Jesus established this at the very beginning when he sent the Apostles out to the world individually (not collectively) to teach the good news (Gospel).

Hugh George de Willmott Newman, Mar Georgius I, Patriarch of Glastonbury, conducted extensive research and reconstructive history of the Church earlier this century, and published a work entitled “Successio Apostolica”. In this work he explains how he sought to discover, clarify, and reinstate many different lines of succession. Desiring to restore Orthodox Apostolic Catholicism of Undivided Christendom, he and those with him in the early days of his pontificate, became reconciled that all consecrations and ordinations of proven validity were equally efficacious regardless of any particular denomination or line of Apostolic Succession. He fortified the authenticity of Apostolic Succession by achieving Episcopal Consecrations in many authentic lines of succession. This brought into being an Ecumenical Apostolic Succession derived from every part of The One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.

The lines of succession enumerated on the following pages are a result of the reconstructive research conducted by Mar Georgius I, sixth Patriarch of Glastonbury, England. As this history reveals, twenty lines of succession lead to the consecration of the Bishops of the Universal Church of Autogenes. What is known of these lines is presented with the desire to cement ecumenical relationships and shorten the period until the whole Church, the Body of Christ, will be fully united.

I. SYRIAN – ANTIOCHENE
THE GOSPEL was first preached in Antioch in Syria by Jewish converts returning there from Jerusalem after the Day of Pentecost and afterwards by refugees who fled Jerusalem during the persecution at the time of the martyrdom of St. Stephen. Some years later, St. Barnabas fetched St. Paul from Tarsus and they went to Antioch, being called to the Apostleship: “And the disciples were called Christians first at Antioch” (Acts 11:26) then taking it to Rome and consecrated as his successor in Antioch, St. Evedius who was in turn succeeded by St. Ignatius, called “Theophoros.” The 125th Patriarch of Antioch, counting from St. Peter, was Ignatius Jacobus II (1847-1872), upon whose instructions:
• Mar Ignatius Peter in, Syrian-Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch, then Metropolitan of Emesa (Horns) on June 2, 1866, consecrated:
• Raimond Ferrette, Mar Julius, Bishop of lona, who, on March 6, 1874, consecrated:
• Richard Williams Morgan, Mar Pelagius I, First British Patriarch of the Patriarchate of Antioch, who on March 6, 1879, consecrated:
• Charles Isaac Stevens, Mar Theophilus I, Second British Patriarch, who on May 4, 1890, consecrated:
• Leon Chechemian, Mar Leon, Archbishop of Selsey, who on November 2, 1897, consecrated:
• Andrew Charles Albert McLaglan, Mar Andries, Fourth British Patriarch, who on June 4, 1922, consecrated:
• Herbert James Monzani Heard, Mar Jacobus II, Fifth British Patriarch, who on June 13, 1943 consecrated:
• William Bernard Crow, Mar Basilius Abdullah III, Patriarch of Antioch of the Ancient Orthodox Catholic Church, who on April 10, 1944, consecrated:
• Hugh George de Willmott Newman, Mar Georgius I, Patriarch of Glastonbury, Catholicos of the West, Sixth British Patriarch, who on July 6, 1956, consecrated sub-condition by way of additional commission:
• Charles Dennis Boltwood, who on October 16, 1966, consecrated:
• Albert J. Fuge, who of May 27, 1972, consecrated:
• John Lawrence Brown, who on December 31, 1973, consecrated:
• Donald Lawrence Jolly, who on March 16, 1980, consecrated:
• Robert Vincent Bernard Dawe, for the Independent Catholic Church International, Archbishop of California and later ICCI Primate of the USA and International Primus, who on October 18, 1981, consecrated:
• Francis Thorne-Coley of San Antonio, Texas, for the Community of the Companions of St. Francis, who on August 20,1998, consecrated:
• Lee Allen Petersen, who on April 26, 2009 consecrated:
• Mansell Christian Gilmore

II SYRIAN-MALABAR
THE APOSTLE St. Thomas and the indigenous Indian first preached Christianity in India Church was called “The Christians of St. Thomas.” Being without a bishop, the St. Thomas Christians seceded in some numbers in 1665 and placed themselves under the jurisdiction of the Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch. The origin of which is given in Table I, from which See they received a hierarchy and were thereafter called the Syrian-Orthodox Church of Malabar, being under the jurisdiction of those Patriarchs of Antioch:
• Moran Mar Ignatius Yacob II, Syrian Patriarch of Antioch, who on February 12, 1865, consecrated:
• Joseph Pulikottil, Mar Dionysios V, Metropolitan of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, who on July 29, 1889, consecrated:
• Antonio Francisco Xavenda Alvarez, Mar Julius, Archbishop of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church in Ceylon, Goa and India, who on May 29, 1892, consecrated:
• Joseph Rene Vilatte, Mar Timotheos, Archbishop-Exarch of North America, who on December 29, 1915, consecrated:
• Frederick Ebenezer John Lloyd, Bishop of Illinois, afterward Primate of the American Catholic Church, who on September 8, 1929, consecrated:
• John Churchill Sibley, Missionary Archbishop for England, who on October 6, 1935, consecrated:
• John Sebastian Marlow Ward, Archbishop of Olivet, who in August 25, 1945, consecrated:
• Hugh George de Willmott Newman, Mar Georgius I, who on July 6, 1956, consecrated:
• Charles Dennis Boltwood, who on October 16,1966, consecrated:
• Albert J. Fuge, who of May 27,1972, consecrated:
• John Lawrence Brown, who on December 31, 1973, consecrated:
• Donald Lawrence Jolly, who on March 16, 1980, consecrated:
• Robert Vincent Bernard Dawe, who on October 18,1981, consecrated:
• Francis Thorne-Coley, who on August 20, 1998, consecrated:
• Lee Allen Petersen, who on April 26, 2009 consecrated:
• Mansell Christian Gilmore

III. SYRIAN-GALLICAN
IN THE DISPUTE between France’s Third Republic and the Roman Catholic Church, Archbishop Villatte arrived at an understanding- with the French politicians in an attempt to rally the Gallican school of Roman Catholic thought and institute the Catholic Apostolic Gallican Church in opposition to Rome. Though that church did not thrive in France, it did survive.
• Joseph Rene Vilatte, Mar Timotheos, on May 6, 1900, consecrated:
• Paulo Miraglia Gullotti, Bishop of Piacenza, who on December 4, 1904, consecrated:
• Ernest Louis Rene Houssay, Mar Julius, Metropolitan of the Gallican Catholic Church, who on June 21, 1911, consecrated:
• Louis Marie Francois Giraud, Archbishop of Almyra, Gallican Patriarch, who on December 28, 1921, consecrated:
• Pierre Gaston Vigue, who on June 3, 1924, consecrated:
• Aloysius Stumpfl, Mar Timotheos II, Regionary Bishop of Aquileia, who on June 28, 1947, consecrated:
• Charles Leslie Saul, Archbishop of Suthronia, Mar Leofric, who on July 14, 1947, consecrated:
• Hugh George de Willmott Newman, Mar Georgius I, who on July 6, 1956, consecrated:
• Charles Dennis Boltwood, who on October 16,1966, consecrated:
• Albert J. Fuge, who of May 27, 1972, consecrated:
• John Lawrence Brown, who on December 31, 1973, consecrated:
• Donald Lawrence Jolly, who on March 16, 1980, consecrated:
• Robert Vincent Bernard Dawe, who on October 18,1981, consecrated:
• Francis Thorne-Coley, who on August 20,1998, consecrated:
• Lee Allen Petersen, who on April 26, 2009 consecrated:
• Mansell Christian Gilmore

IV. SYRO-CHALDEAN
(CALLED NESTORIAN)
EAST SYRIA, Assyria, Persia and Mesopotamia were evangelized by St. Thomas the Apostle, assisted by St. Adai, one of the Seventy sent by Christ (Luke 10:1) and one of their disciples. Proceeding- from Palestine, they preached in those lands, and St. Thomas eventually reached India. The Metropolitan of Seleucia-Ctesiphon governed the Persian Church from its earliest days, the twin capitols of the Persian Empire, who was subject to the Patriarch of Antioch and of the East, but owing to difficulties of communication, the Patriarchal jurisdiction was delegated to the Metropolitan who was designated, “Catholicos of the East” (i.e. “holder of all”) and Patriarch. The Syro-Chaldean Church (the official designation of the Catholicate of the East) at one time became the largest body of Christians in the world, extending throughout all Persia, Mesopotamia, India and China. It was eventually reduced to small numbers by the barbarian invaders. The Indian branch remained in communion with the Catholics until the Synod of Diamper in 1599, when the Latin missionaries forced the Indian Christians to sever their connection with the See of Seleucia- Ctesiphon and submit to Rome. As stated in Table II, a number of them effected a union with the Syrian-Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch in 1665 and were constituted as the Syrian Orthodox Church of Malabar. For some 250 years, though cut off from their historic center of jurisdiction, a faithful remnant was perpetuated, and it was not until 1862 that the Syro-Chaldean jurisdiction in India was restored; and in this manner:
• His Sacred Beatitude, Maram Mar Rowell Shimun XVIII, Reuben, Patriarch of Seleucia-Ctesiphon and Catholicos of the East, who on December 17, 1862, consecrated:
• Anthony Thondanatt, Mar Abd Ishu, Metropolitan of Trichur, who on Jul 24,1899, consecrated:
• Luis Mariano Scares, Mar Basileus, Metropolitan of India, Ceylon, Mylapore, Socotra and Messina, who on November 30, 1902, consecrated:
• Ulric Vemon Herford, Mar Jacobus, Bishop of Mercia and Middlesex, who on February 28, 1925, consecrated:
• William Stanley McBean Knight, Mar Paulus, Bishop of Kent, who on October 18, 1931, consecrated:
• Hedley Coward Bartlett, Bishop of Siluria, who on May 20, 1945, consecrated:
• Hugh George de Willmott Newman, Mar Georgius I, who on July 6, 1956, consecrated:
• Charles Dennis Boltwood, who on October 16,1966, consecrated:
• Albert J. Fuge, who of May 27, 1972, consecrated:
• John Lawrence Brown, who on December 31, 1973, consecrated:
• Donald Lawrence Jolly, who on March 16, 1980, consecrated:
• Robert Vincent Bernard Dawe, who on October 18, 1981, consecrated:
• Francis Thorne-Coley, who on August 20,1998, consecrated:
• Lee Allen Petersen, who on April 26, 2009 consecrated:
• Mansell Christian Gilmore

V. CHALDEAN-UNITIATE
IN 1445, A SECTION of the Syro-Chaldean Church (Table IV) resident in Cyprus entered into union with Rome and Pope Eugenius IV threatened with ex-communion anyone who dared to continue to call them “Nestorienas.” In 1552, owing to a contested patriarchal election, a division took place in the main body in their homelands and part seceded to Rome. Pope Julius VI invested their leader, John Sulaka, as Uniate Patriarch on April 20, 1553. However, his eventual successor. Mar Shimun XIII repudiated the union with Rome in 1662 and is the predecessor of the Syro- Chaldean Patriarchs from then until the present time. A group remaining in communion with Rome were for some years governed by a line of Patriarchs all bearing the name of Joseph, but on July 5, 1830, Pope Pius VIII suppressed the Josephite line and declared John VIII Homez to be Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans and as such, head of the Chaldean-Uniate Rite, of which:
• Petrus Elia XIV, Abu-Al-Yunan, Patriarch of Babylon for the Chaldean Catholic Church, on July 24, 1892, consecrated:
• Yosif Khayatt, Maran Mar Yosif Emmanuel II Thomas, Patriarch of Babylon for the Chaldean Catholic Church on May 27. 1917, consecrated:
• Antoine Lefbeme, Special Commissariat (Legate), who on May 4, 1925, consecrated:
• Albert Wolfert Brooks, Mar John Emmanuel, Titular Bishop of Sardis, afterwards Titular Archbishop of Ebbsfleet and Administrator of the Metropolitan Synod of the Apostolic Episcopal Church of the USA, who on November 16, 1934, consecrated:
• Charles William Keller, who on April 29, 1945, consecrated:
• Hugh George de Willmott Newman, Mar Georgius I, who on July 6, 1956, consecrated:
• Charles Dennis Boltwood, who on October 16,1966, consecrated:
• Albert J. Fuge, who of May 27. 1972, consecrated:
• John Lawrence Brown, who on December 31, 1973, consecrated:
• Donald Lawrence Jolly, who on March 16, 1980, consecrated:
• Robert Vincent Bernard Dawe, who on October 18,1981, consecrated:
• Francis Thorne-Coley, who on August 20,1998, consecrated:
• Lee Allen Petersen, who on April 26, 2009 consecrated:
• Mansell Christian Gilmore

VI. COPTIC-ORTHODOX
ANCIENT TRADITION points to Alexandria, where there was a large colony of Jews as the scene of the Missionary activities of St. Mark the Evangelist. The APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTIONS (VIII, 46) tells us that he consecrated one Anienus as the first Bishop of Alexandria and that St. Luke the Evangelist consecrated the second of that See, Abilios. The Gospel spread rapidly throughout Egypt of which Alexandria became the Primatial See, being subsequently raised to the dignity of a Patriarchate, ranking third in order next after Rome and Constantinople. Despite severe Moslem persecutions, and today sadly shorn of its former strength, the Coptic-Orthodox Church has managed to continue its existence down to our own times and owing to the presence of numerous Africans in the USA, established a mission there, under:
• Archbishop St. John-the-Divine Hickersayon, who on May 27, 1947, consecrated:
• Davison Quartey Arthur, Mar Lukos, Bishop of Lagos, Accra and Trinidad. who on February 19, 1951, consecrated:
• Hugh George de Willmott Newman, Mar Georgius I, who on July 6, 1956, consecrated:
• Charles Dennis Boltwood, who on October 16, 1966, consecrated:
• Albert J. Fuge, who of May 27, 1972, consecrated:
• John Lawrence Brown, who on December 31, 1973, consecrated:
• Donald Lawrence Jolly, who on March 16, 1980, consecrated:
• Robert Vincent Bernard Dawe. who on October 18, 1981, consecrated:
• Francis Thorne-Coley, who on August 20, 1998, consecrated:
• Lee Allen Petersen, who on April 26, 2009 consecrated:
• Mansell Christian Gilmore

VII. ARMENIAN-UNIATE
THE ORIGINAL FOUNDATION of the Holy Apostolic Church of Armenia may be traced to Sts. Thaddeus and Eustatius (two of the Seventy). The honor of converting the Armenians, as a nation, to Christ, was gained by St. Gregory the Diuminator, who is 302 was consecrated Archbishop of Etchmiadzme by St. Leontius Exarch of Caesarea in Cappadocia, originally within the Patriarchate of Antioch, and afterward within that of Constantinople. In 364, the Armenian church was granted full autonomy as an autocephalous catholicate within the One Holy and Apostolic Church under the Patriarch of Etchmiadzine, Supreme Catholicos of all the Armenians. In the 12th century, some of the Armenians began to contemplate union with Rome and the Catholicos was present as a guest of honor at the Latin Council of Antioch C1141) and later, at the Council of Florence (1439), formal union was proclaimed; but it remained a dead letter. From 1701 attempts were made to found a Uniate body and in 1712, a line of Patriarchs of Cihcia of the Armenians was inaugurated by Rome in the person of Peter Abraham I, from which time the Armenian-Uniate Church has continued to this day. During the reign of the Patriarch, Antonios Peter DC (Hassun):
• Archbishop Charchorunian on April 23, 1878. consecrated:
• Leon Chechemian, Mar Leon, who on November 2, 1987, consecrated:
• Andrew Charles Albert McLaglan, Mar Andries, Fourth British Patriarch, who on June 4, 1922, consecrated:
• Herbert James Monzani Heard, Mar Jacobus II, Fifth British Patriarch, who on June 13, 1943, consecrated:
• William Bernard Crow, Mar Basilius Abdullah III. Patriarch of Antioch of the Ancient Orthodox Catholic Church, who on April 10, 1944, consecrated:
• Hugh George de Willmott Newman, Mar Georgius I, who on July 6, 1956, consecrated:
• Charles Dennis Boltwood, who on October 16, 1966, consecrated:
• Albert J. Fuge, who of May 27, 1972, consecrated:
• John Lawrence Brown, who on December 31, 1973, consecrated:
• Donald Lawrence Jolly, who on March 16, 1980, consecrated:
• Robert Vincent Bernard Dawe, who on October 18, 1981, consecrated:
• Francis Thorne-Coley, who on August 20, 1998, consecrated:
• Lee Allen Petersen, who on April 26, 2009 consecrated:
• Mansell Christian Gilmore

VIII. GREEK MELKITE UNIATE CHURCH
THE WORD “Melkite” is derived from the Semitic word “meiek,” meaning, “king” and literally means “royalists.” Those known by that name are so called because in the disputes around the time of the council of Chalcedon (451) they followed the Emperor in repudiating the Monophysite heresy, and in denouncing the occupants of the Antiochene and Alexandrian Patriarchates as Monophysites. In most cases this is a matter of grave doubt. However, the cause of the Melkites was espoused by the Byzantine Patriarchate. They attached themselves loyally, and in the Great Schism of 1054 remained among the eastern churches. In 1686, under their Patriarch Athanasius IV of Antioch, they submitted to Rome and have since continued as the Greek Melkite Uniate Church. In the twentieth century, quite a number fled from Turkish persecution and from the troubles of the two World Wars to the United States. In the meantime, (c 1911) whose who had already migrated here were visited by:
• Athanasios Sawoya, Greek Melkite Archbishop of Beyrouth and Gebeil in Syria, who on October 9, 1911, consecrated:
• Antoine Joseph Aneed, Exarch of the Greek Melkite Rite in the USA. Both bishops were in full communion with Rome. Bishop Aneed, thereafter, on July 28, 1946, consecrated:
• Odo Acheson Barry, Mar Columba, Titular Archbishop of Canada, who on July 17, 1955, consecrated:
• Hugh George de Willmott Newman, Mar Georgius I, who on July 6, 1956, consecrated:
• Charles Dennis Boltwood, who on October 16, 1966, consecrated:
• Albert J. Fuge, who of May 27, 1972, consecrated:
• John Lawrence Brown, who on December 31, 1973, consecrated:
• Donald Lawrence Jolly, who on March 16, 1980, consecrated:
• Robert Vincent Bernard Dawe, who on October 18, 1981, consecrated:
• Francis Thorne-Coley, who on August 20, 1998, consecrated:
• Lee Allen Petersen, who on April 26, 2009 consecrated:
• Mansell Christian Gilmore

IX. RUSSIAN ORTHODOX
ACCORDING TO ancient tradition, the Apostle St. Andrew first preached the Gospel in Russia and planted a cross at Kiev. Missionaries from Constantinople, however, accomplished the actual conversion of the Russian people. In 867 and in 988 St. Vladimir, Grand Prince of Kiev, ordered the nation to become Christian. In 1589, Jeremiah H, Patriarch of Constantinople, raised Job, Metropolitan of Moscow, to the Patriarchal dignity and thus the Patriarchate of Moscow came into being. This authority was suppressed by Peter the Great, Czar of Russia, in 1721 (with the consent of the Oriental Patriarchs) and restored again in 1917 by Patriarch Aikkon, who was afterward imprisoned by the Bolsheviks and was for some years represented by:
• Ivan Nikolaevich Stragorodskij, Metropolitan of Nizhni-Novgorod, afterward Sergij, Patriarch of Moscow. In 1918, at Harbin, Russia, (or Irkutsk, in 1917) under a “Canon of Necessity,” he consecrated:
• Henry Joseph Kleefish, who on July 29, 1946, consecrated:
• Odo Acheson Barry, Mar Columba, who on July 17, 1955, consecrated:
• Hugh George de Willmott Newman, Mar Georgius I, who on July 6, 1956, consecrated:
• Charles Dennis Boltwood, who on October 16,1966, consecrated:
• Albert J. Fuge, who of May 27, 1972, consecrated:
• John Lawrence Brown, who on December 31,1973, consecrated:
• Donald Lawrence Jolly, who on March 16, 1980, consecrated:
• Robert Vincent Bernard Dawe, who on October 18, 1981, consecrated:
• Francis Thome-Coley, who on August 20,1998, consecrated:
• Lee Allen Petersen, who on April 26, 2009 consecrated:
• Mansell Christian Gilmore

X. RUSSO-SYRIAC
THERE ARE in the United States a number of faithful, Syrian by race, but conforming to the Greco-Russian liturgy and customs. For these, the Russian Orthodox Church appears to have accepted some responsibility, so that on the instructions of the Russian Holy Governing Synod:
• Archbishop Evdokim on May 11, 1917, consecrated:
• Aftimios Ofiesh, Archbishop of Brooklyn, who on September 27, 1932, consecrated:
• 3. Ignatius William Albert Nichols, Bishop of Washington, D. C., who in 1940 consecrated:
• Frank Dyer, who on March 16, 1947, consecrated:
• Matthew Nicholas Nelson, Titular Bishop of Hawaii, who on July 21, 1947, consecrated:
• Lowell Paul Wadle, Archbishop of the American Catholic Church, who on October 3, 1948, consecrated:
• Odo Acheson Barry, Mar Columba, who on July 17, 1955, consecrated:
• Hugh George de Willmott Newman, Mar Georgius I, who on July 6, 1956, consecrated:
• Charles Dennis Boltwood, who on October 16, 1966, consecrated:
• Albert J. Fuge, who of May 27, 1972, consecrated:
• John Lawrence Brown, who on December 31. 1973, consecrated:
• Donald Lawrence Jolly, who on March 16, 1980, consecrated:
• Robert Vincent Bernard Dawe, who on October 18, 1981, consecrated:
• Francis Thorne-Coley, who on August 20, 1998, consecrated:
• Lee Allen Petersen, who on April 26, 2009 consecrated:
• Mansell Christian Gilmore

XI. ROMAN CATHOLIC
(BRAZILIAN)
(Copy of a document in Portuguese, as transcribed by a non-Portuguese speaker)
Nos, + DOM MILTON CUNHA, pela Graca de Deus e da Santa Igreja, Acrse-Bispo Primaz do Brasil, fazemos saber que nesta data, conferimos a Sagracao Episcopal, “Sub-Condicione”, a S. Sxcia. + DOM EUSEBIO PACE a Nossa Successao Apostolica, proveniente de IGREJA CATOLICA APOSTOLICA ROMANA, por intermedio da IGREJA CATOLICA APOSTOLICA BRASILEIRA, recebida a 5 Junho de 1960, das maos do Saudoso Bispo + DOM CARLOS DUARTE COSTA, ex-Titular de Maura.
ROTEIRO DE SUCCESSAO:
O PAPA LEAO Xin, sagrou o Cardeal Rampola,
O CARDEAL ARCOVERDE sagrou o Cardeal Leme,
O CARDEAL LEME, sagrou o Dom Carlos Duarte Costa,
DOM CARLOS DUARTE COSTA, este, sagrou Dom Milton Cunha,
DOM MILTON CUNHA, que por su vez, sagra “Sub-conditione”. Dom Eusebio Pace,
DOM EUSEBIO PACE, Em Capela Particular. Em Sao Paulo, as 12 Horas do dia 3 de Octubro de 1969 Secula XX de Era Crista (Signed) DOM MILTON CUNHA PRIMAZ DO BRASH.
Clarification:
• Sebastian Leme de Silveira Cintra, Roman Catholic Bishop of Rio de Janeiro, on December 8, 1924, consecrated:
• Carlos Duarte Costa, who on June 5, 1960, consecrated:
• Milton Cunha who on October 3, 1968, consecrated, sub-conditione:
• Giuseppe Santo Eusebio Pace, who on October 15, 1978, consecrated:
• Antonio Pietroburgo, “Chiesa Cattolica Ortodossa,” Patriarch of Rome, American Orthodox Catholic Church, who on January 16, 1980, consecrated:
• Donald Lawrence Jolly, Ph.D., who on March 16,1980, consecrated:
• Robert Vincent Bernard Dawe, who on October 18, 1981, consecrated:
• Francis Thorne-Coley, who on August 20, 1998, consecrated:
• Lee Allen Petersen, who on April 26, 2009 consecrated:
• Mansell Christian Gilmore

XIII. OLD CATHOLIC
(JUNIOR LINE)
RUDOLPHE Francois Edouard de Gramant Hamilton de Brabant, His Serene Highness, Prince de Landas Berghes et de Rache et Due de St. Winnock, Archbishop of the Old Roman Catholic Church, on October 3,1916, consecrated:
• William Henry Francis Brothers, who on August 25, 1935 consecrated:
• Albert Dunstan Bell, who on March 9, 1940, consecrated:
• Edgar Ramon Verostek, who on December 7, 1941, consecrated:
• Lowell Paul Wadle, who on October 3,1948, consecrated:
• Odo Acheson Barry, Mar Columba, who on July 17, 1955, consecrated:
• Hugh George de Willmott Newman, Mar Georgius I, who on July 6, 1956, consecrated:
• Charles Dennis Boltwood, who on October 16,1966, consecrated:
• Albert J. Fuge, who of May 27, 1972, consecrated:
• John Lawrence Brown, who on December 31, 1973, consecrated:
• Donald Lawrence Jolly, who on March 16, 1980, consecrated:
• Robert Vincent Bernard Dawe, who on October 18, 1981, consecrated:
• Francis Thorne-Coley, who on August 20,1998, consecrated:
• Lee Allen Petersen, who on April 26, 2009 consecrated:
• Mansell Christian Gilmore

XIV. OLD CATHOLIC
(ENGLISH LINE)
SHORTLY AFTER the outbreak of World War I, Archbishop, the Earl decided that it was necessary to make arrangements for the safeguarding of the succession and called upon his priests to elect a suitable candidate for the Episcopate. They elected the Reverend Frederick Willoughby, a former Anglican Clergyman, who was duly consecrated as recorded below, but whose connection with the Old Catholic Church in Great Britain was formally terminated on May 19, 1915 and he eventually submitted to Rome. Archbishop Mathew died on December 20, 1919, by which time the movement had become known as The Old Roman Catholic Church in Great Britain. Thereafter a more pro-Roman policy was adopted. In 1914 a decision was made to restore the original Old Catholic as distinct from Old Roman Catholic basis and the following line of succession came into being:
• Arnold Harris Mathew, who on October 28, 1914, consecrated:
• Frederick Samuel Willoughby, who on July 9, 1922, consecrated:
• James Bartholomew Banks, James I. Sovereign Primate and Primate of The Service Church, who on May 28,1940 consecrated:
• Sidney Ernest Page Needham, who on January 4, 1945, consecrated:
• Hugh George de Willmott Newman, Mar Georgius I, who on July 6, 1956, consecrated:
• Charles Dennis Boltwood, who on October 16, 1966, consecrated:
• Albert J. Fuge, who of May 27, 1972, consecrated:
• John Lawrence Brown, who on December 31,1973, consecrated:
• Donald Lawrence Jolly, who on March 16,1980, consecrated:
• Robert Vincent Bernard Dawe, who on October 18,1981, consecrated:
• Francis Thorne-Coley, who on August 20, 1998, consecrated:
• Lee Allen Petersen, who on April 26, 2009 consecrated:
• Mansell Christian Gilmore

XV. LIBERAL CATHOLIC
SHORTLY AFTER the outbreak of World War I, Archbishop Arnold Mathew Harris decided that it was necessary to make arrangements for the safeguarding of the succession of the Old Catholics in England and called upon his priests to elect a suitable candidate for the episcopate. They elected the Reverend Frederick Willoughby, a former Anglican Clergyman, who was duly consecrated on October 28, 1914. His connection with the Old Catholic Church in Great Britain was formally terminated on May 19, 1915, and he eventually submitted to Rome.
When, the Old Catholic priests in England elected Willoughby, the next in order of voting was the Rev. James Ingall Wedgewood who had introduced a number of Theosophists into the Old Catholic Church. On August 6, 1915, Archbishop Mathew issued a Pastoral letter condemning Theosophy as a heresy and calling upon those of his clergy who were Theosophists to recant. They refused and so left the Old Catholic movement. These clergy and their lay followers did for a time continue to operate under the title. The Old Catholic Church,” which was available to them because the followers of Archbishop Mathew had chosen to use of the title Old Roman Catholic. Eventually they adopted the title The Liberal Catholic Church, which they felt to be more appropriate to their views. Bishop Willoughby was in negotiation with Rome with a view to reconciliation, but nothing final had been arranged. When approached by the Theosophical clergy, he consented to consecrate Wedgewood. It appears that Willoughby believed it only honorable to pass on to the clergy who had elected him the episcopal office in which he no longer intended to serve. Thus, on February 13, 1916 he consecrated:
• James Ingall Wedgewood as Presiding Bishop of the Liberal Catholic Church, who on July 22, 1916, consecrated:
• Charles Webster Leadbeater, Regionary Bishop for Australia, who on October 17, 1926, consecrated:
• Ray Marshall Wardall, Regionary Bishop for the USA, who on September 14, 1947, consecrated:
• Edward Murray Matthews for the USA, who on October 22, 1955, consecrated:
• William Henry Dawe for Canada, who on April 27, 1978, consecrated:
• Peter Wayne Goodrich, who on March 16, 1980, consecrated:
• Robert Vincent Bernard Dawe, who on October 18,1981, consecrated:
• Francis Thorne-Coley, who on August 20, 1998, consecrated:
• Lee Allen Petersen, who on April 26, 2009 consecrated:
• Mansell Christian Gilmore

XVI. NON-JURING
IN 1688, AT THE TIME of the Glorious Revolution in England, there was a group of clergymen who refused to break their oath of allegiance to James II in order to take the oath to William III. Thereby they earned for themselves the name of Non-jurors. They upheld the principles of hereditary succession and the divine right of kings, and their refusal to recognize William as king led to their removal from office. In 1690 they were joined by a number of Scottish clergymen who were unwilling to accept the establishment of Presbyterianism in Scotland. Ultimately, their numbers dwindled, and the Non-jurors faded from the scene in the early 19th century. Their succession continues most notably through Samuel Seabury, first bishop in the Protestant Episcopal Church.
• Mario Antonio de Dominis, Archbishop of Spalato, on December 14, 1617, consecrated:
• George Monteig-ne, Bishop of Lincoln, afterwards Bishop of London, who on November 18, 1621, consecrated:
• William Laud, Bishop of St. David’s, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, who on June 17, 1638, consecrated:
• Brian Duppa, Bishop of Chichester, who on October 18, 1660, consecrated:
• Gilbert Sheldon, Bishop of London, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, who on December 6, 1674, consecrated:
• Henry Compton, Bishop of Oxford, later of London, who on January 27, 1677, consecrated:
• William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury, who on October 25, 1685, consecrated:
• Thomas White, Bishop of Peterborough, who on January 24, 1693, consecrated:
• George Hickes, Suffragan Bishop of Thetford, later Primus of the English Non-jurors, who on February 24, 1712, consecrated:
• Thomas Rattray, Bishop of Dunkeld, who on September 10, 1784, consecrated:
• William Falconer, Bishop of Caithness, who on September 21. 1712, consecrated:
• Robert Kilgour, Bishop of Aberdeen, who on November 14, 1768, consecrated:
• Samuel Seabury, Bishop of Connecticut, who on September 17, 1792, consecrated:
• Thomas J. Claggett, Bishop of Maryland, who on May 7, 1797, consecrated:
• Edward Bass, Bishop of Massachusetts, who on May 7, 1797. consecrated:
• Abraham Jarvis, Bishop of Connecticut, who on May 29. 1811, consecrated:
• John H. Hopkins, Bishop co-adjutor of New York, who on October 25. 1827, consecrated:
• Henry U. Onderdonk, Bishop of Pennsylvania, who on July 7, 1836, consecrated:
• Samuel A. McCoskry, Bishop of Michigan, who on December 8, 1875. consecrated:
• William E. McLaren, Bishop of Chicago, who on June 24. 1898, consecrated:
• William Montgomery Brown, Bishop of Arkansas, who on January 2, 1927, consecrated:
• Wallace David de Ortega Maxey, who on June 5, 1946, consecrated sub- conditione by way of additional commission:
• Charles Leslie Saul, who on August 1,1946, consecrated sub-conditione by way of additional commission:
• Hugh George de Willmott Newman, Mar Georgius I. who on July 6, 1956, consecrated:
• Charles Dennis Boltwood, who on October 16, 1966, consecrated:
• Albert J. Fuge, who of May 27, 1972, consecrated:
• John Lawrence Brown, who on December 31, 1973, consecrated:
• Donald Lawrence Jolly, who on March 16, 1980, consecrated:
• Robert Vincent Bernard Dawe, who on October 18,1981, consecrated:
• Francis Thorne-Coley, who on August 20, 1998, consecrated:
• Lee Allen Petersen, who on April 26, 2009 consecrated:
• Mansell Christian Gilmore

XVII. INDEPENDENT CATHOLIC
FORESEEING an imminent break-up of the Liberal Catholic Church International in Canada, Archbishop William Henry Dawe and the Canadian Primate, Peter Wayne Goodrich, elected to erect an international church having no allegiance to the Liberal Catholic Church. Dawe and Goodrich passed a Primate of the LCCI in the USA. Joseph Neth summoned Archbishop John Shelton Davis of Texas, and on March 16, 1980, in Corona Del Mar, California, with Bishop Donald Lawrence Jolly-Gabriel, consecrated Dawe’s second cousin, the International Legate Canon, the Very Reverend:
• Bernard Dawe, as first USA Primate and Primus of the Independent Catholic Church International, who on instructions of the LCCI 1980 Synod, on October 18, 1981, consecrated:
• Francis Thorne-Coley, who on August 20,1998, consecrated:
• Lee Allen Petersen, who on April 26, 2009 consecrated:
• Mansell Christian Gilmore
XVIII. ROMAN CATHOLIC, SYRO-CHALDEAN RITE
WHEN Anthony Thondanatt accepted consecration from the Nestorian Patriarch Maram Mar Rowell Shimun XVIII, (Table IV) his action severed him from communion with Rome. However, after three years his relationship with Rome was restored. Ultimately, he was re-consecrated, as follows:
• Hanna Sahhar, Mar Elia Johannan Mellus, of the Chaldean Catholic Church, on March 5, 1882, consecrated:
• Anthony Thondanatt, Mar Abd Ishu, Metropolitan of Trichur, who on July 24, 1899, consecrated:
• Luis Mariano Scares, Mar Basileus, who on November 30, 1902, consecrated:
• Ulric Vemon Herford, Mar Jacobus, who on February 28, 1925, consecrated:
• William Stanley McBean Knight, Mar Paulus, who on October 18,1931, consecrated:
• Hedley Coward Bartlett, who on May 20, 1945, consecrated:
• Hugh George de Willmott Newman, Mar Georgius I, who on July 6, 1956, consecrated:
• Charles Dennis Boltwood, who on October 16,1966, consecrated:
• Albert J. Fuge, who of May 27, 1972, consecrated:
• John Lawrence Brown, who on December 31, 1973, consecrated:
• Donald Lawrence Jolly, who on March 16, 1980, consecrated:
• Robert Vincent Bernard Dawe, who on October 18, 1981, consecrated:
• Francis Thorne-Coley, who on August 20, 1998, consecrated:
• Lee Allen Petersen, who on April 26, 2009 consecrated:
• Mansell Christian Gilmore

XIX. ROMAN CATHOLIC/CORPORATE REUNION
THE DISPUTE over the validity of Anglican orders produced a desire among some in the Church of England for orders that Rome would be compelled to acknowledge as valid. This desire led to a clandestine attempt to secure indisputable orders for the English clergy. Two priests from the Church of England and one Englishman from the Syrian Patriachate were consecrated in a service that was kept secret, apparently to protect the consecrator. They were Frederick George Lee and Thomas Wimberley Mossman, both Anglican priests, and John Thomas Seccombe, who had been ordained by Ferrette. Subsequently, the three reportedly re-ordained a number of Anglican priests. They called their effort the Order of Corporate Reunion. However, because the effort did not bear the official sanction of the Church of England, and because it seemed intended to manipulate the Roman Church into giving recognition to Anglican orders, the movement failed. The orders conferred, however, were recognized as valid:
• Ugo Pietro Spinola, a Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church, on June 6,1847, consecrated:
• Luigi Nazari, subsequently Archbishop of Milano, who in the summer of 1877 consecrated:
• Frederick George Lee, Thomas Wimberley Mossman and John Thomas Seccombe, for the Order of Corporate Reunion; who, with Richard Williams Morgan, on March 6, 1879, consecrated:
• Charles Isaac Stevens, Mar Theophilus I, Second British Patriarch of the Patriarchate of Antioch, who on May 4, 1890, consecrated:
• Leon Chechemian, Mar Leon, who on November 2, 1897, consecrated:
• Andrew Charles Albert McLaglan, Mar Andries, who on June 4, 1922, consecrated:
• Herbert James Monzani Heard, Mar Jacobus n, who on June 13, 1943, consecrated:
• William Bernard Crow, Mar Basilius Abdullah III, who on April 10, 1944, consecrated:
• Hugh George de Willmott Newman, Mar Georgius I, who on July 6, 1956, consecrated:
• Charles Dennis Boltwood, who on October 16, 1966, consecrated:
• Albert J. Fuge, who of May 27, 1972, consecrated:
• John Lawrence Brown, who on December 31, 1973 consecrated:
• Donald Lawrence Jolly, who on March 16, 1980, consecrated:
• Robert Vincent Bernard Dawe, who on October 18, 1981, consecrated:
• Francis Thorne-Coley, who on August 20, 1998, consecrated:
• Lee Allen Petersen, who on April 26, 2009 consecrated:
• Mansell Christian Gilmore

XX. ANGLICAN/REFORMED EPISCOPAL
THE REFORMED EPISCOPAL CHURCH was founded in Philadelphia on December 2, 1873, by Bishop George David Cummins, formerly the Assistant Bishop of Kentucky in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the USA. On December 14, 1873, Cummins consecrated:
• Charles Edward Cheney, who on June 22, 1879, consecrated:
• Alfred Spencer Richardson, who on May 4, 1890, consecrated:
• Leon Chechemian, who on November 2, 1897, consecrated:
• Andrew Charles Albert McLaglan, Mar Andries, who on June 4, 1922, consecrated:
• Herbert James Monzani Heard, Mar Jacobus n, who on June 13, 1943, consecrated:
• William Bernard Crow, Mar Basilius Abdullah III, who on April 10, 1944, consecrated:
• Hugh George de Willmott Newman, Mar Georgius I, who on July 6, 1956, consecrated:
• Charles Dennis Boltwood, who on October 16,1966, consecrated:
• Albert J. Fuge, who of May 27,1972, consecrated:
• John Lawrence Brown, who on December 31, 1973, consecrated:
• Donald Lawrence Jolly, who on March 16,1980, consecrated:
• Robert Vincent Bernard Dawe, who on October 18, 1981, consecrated:
• Francis Thorne-Coley, who on August 20, 1998, consecrated:
• Lee Allen Petersen, who on April 26, 2009 consecrated:
• Mansell Christian Gilmore