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 recognised as being “validly Catholic”. Often, poorly formed and uneducated, but well-meaning Roman Catholic clergy will attempt to dissuade someone from becoming involved in the autocephalous or Emergent Catholic Movement by falsely claiming that our Church is not recognised as having valid sacraments and orders. This contradicts the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church. In Dominus Iesus, the declaration on the unicity and salvific universality of Jesus Christ and the Church, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), who was then prefect of the Roman Catholic Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith states, "Therefore, there exists a single Church of Christ, which subsists in the Catholic Church, governed by the Successor of Peter and by the Bishops in communion with him. The Churches which, while not existing in perfect communion with the Catholic Church, remain united to her by means of the closest bonds, that is, by apostolic succession and a valid Eucharist, are true particular Churches. Therefore, the Church of Christ is present and operative also in these Churches, even though they lack full communion with the Catholic Church, since they do not accept the Catholic doctrine of the Primacy, which, according to the will of God, the Bishop of Rome objectively has and exercises over the entire Church." (See also: Second Vatican Council, Decree Unitatis redintegratio, 3.; Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Declaration Mysterium Ecclesiae, 1: AAS 65 (1973), 396-398.; Second Vatican Council, Decree Unitatis redintegratio, 14 and 15; Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Letter Communionis notio, 17: AAS 85 (1993), 848.; First Vatican Council, Constitution Pastor aeternus: DS 3053-3064; Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution Lumen gentium, 22.) For more information on Apostolic Succession please see Wikipedia,
The Old 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 Page 4 of 37 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: 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, Page 5 of 37 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 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 Hagu
ANTONIO CARDINAL BARBERINI, as Archbishop of
CHARLEAS MAURICE LATELLIER, succeeding as Archbishop of Rheims, November
12, 1668. He, in turn, consecrated in the church of the Cordeliers, Pontois,
JAMES BENIGNE BOSSUET, as Bishop of Condom, September 21, 1670. He was
transferred to the See of Meaux by Pope Clement X,
1671. He in turn, consecrated in the church of Chartreuse, Paris,
JAMES GOYDON DE MATIGNON, Bishop of Condom, 1693, son of Count De Thoringy. He was Doyen of Lisieux
and Abbey Commendantaire De St. Victor, Paris. By
order of Pope Clement XI, he consecrated at
DOMINIC M. VARLET, as Bishop of Ascalon in partibus, and coadjutor to the Bishop of Babylon, Persia,
February 12, 1719. Retiring later to
PETER JOHN MEINDAERTS, as Archbishop of Utrecht, October 17, 1739. He
had been one of several priests ordained in
JOHN VAN STIPHOUT, as Bishop of Haarlem, July 11, 1745. He, in turn,
consecrated,
WALTER MICHAEL VAN NIEUWENHUIZEN, as Archbishop of
ADRIAN BROEKMAN, as Bishop of Haarlem, June 21, 1778. He consecrated,
JOHN JAMES VAN RHIJIN, as Archbishop of Utrecht, November 7, 1805. He
consecrated,
GILBERT DE JONG, as Bishop of Deventer, November 2, 1805. He
consecrated,
WILLIBROD VAN OS, as Archbishop of Utrecht, April 24, 1814. He consecrated,
JOHN BON, as Bishop Haarlem, April 22, 1819. He consecrated,
JOHN VAN SANTEN, as Archbishop of Utrecht, June 14, 1825. He
consecrated,
HERMAN HEYKAMP, as Bishop of Deventer, July 17, 1854. He consecrated,
GASPARD JOHN RINKEL, as Bishop of Haarlem, August 11, 1873. He
consecrated,
GERARD GUL, as Archbishop of Utrecht, May 11, 1892. He consecrated,
ARNOLD HARRIS MATHEW, as Regional Old Catholic Bishop for
LANDAS BERGHES, on June 29, 1913. He consecrated,
HENRY CARMEL CARFORA, on October 4, 1916. Carfora was elected Archbishop
of the
Robert Alfred Burns in 1956. He consecrated,
Robert Lane in 1970. He consecrated,
Floyd Anthony Kortenhof, for the Old Roman Catholic Church,
English Rite in 1991. He
consecrated,
MARK RANDALL EARL, on January 23, 2016, as Coadjutor Bishop to assist Bishop Abel for the Catholic Church of America. Bishop Earl became the second Presiding Bishop on September 11, 2016 upon Bishop Abel’s smi-retirement. Bishop Earl is the Pastor of Sacred Heart Community, Catholic Church of America, in San Diego, California.
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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
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
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
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 - Patriarch of the Apostolic See of Antioch and the East. (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
Joseph Rene Vilatte was consecrated on May 29, 1892 in Columbo, 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. Consecrated by Vilatte as Bishop, later succeeded Vilatte as Archbishop.
Samuel Gregory Lines, 1923. Consecrated by Lloyd as Bishop.
Justin Boyle, 1927. Consecrated by Lines as Bishop.
Lowel Paul Wadle, 1940. Consecrated by Boyle as Bishop.
Herman Adrian Spruit, 1957. Consecrated by Wadle, Charles H. Hampton (Liberal Catholic) and H. Francis Marshall (Greek Melchite), as First Bishop of the Church Universal.
Paul Michael Clemens, 1988. Consecrated by Spruit and W. Blillinger, as Bishop of the Church of Antioch.
Joseph Philip Sousa, 1991. Consecrated by Clemens and Richard Alston Gundrey, as Bishop of the Church of Antioch.
Willibrord Johannes Van Campenhout, 1993. Consecrated Autocephalous Bishop by Sousa. Bishop to the Christians of Saint John.
William Dennis Donavan, 1993. Consecrated by Van Campenhout.
Robert Joseph Allmen, 1995. Consecrated by Donavan. Presiding Bishop of the American Catholic Church. Later, Archbishop and Presiding Bishop of the Reformed Catholic Church.
Michael M. LaBrecque, 1997. Consecrated by Allmen as Bishop.
Francis Raphael, 1999. Consecrated by Allmen as Bishop.
Joseph Francis, 1999. Consecrated by Allmen as Bishop.
Phillip Zimmerman, 2004. Consecrated by Allmen as Bishop.
G. Peter Posthumus, 2006, Consecrated by Zimmerman as Bishop
Raelynn Scott, 2007, Consecrated by Zimmerman as Bishop
Niall Sheridan, 2008, Consecrated by Quinlan as Bishop, Elevated Archbishop by Zimmerman
Marcis Heckman, Consecrated by Zimmerman as Bishop Elevated Archbishop by Quinlan
Joseph Corrigan, Consecrated by Zimmerman as Bishop
Brian Watson, Consecrated by Zimmerman as Bishop
John A. Bell, Consecrated by Zimmerman as Bishop, Elevated Archbishop by Zimmerman
Christopher Carpenter, 2011 Consecrated by Bell, who consecrated
MARK RANDALL EARL, on January 23, 2016, as Coadjutor Bishop to assist Bishop Abel for the Catholic Church of America. Bishop Earl became the second Presiding Bishop on September 11, 2016 upon Bishop Abel’s smi-retirement. Bishop Earl is the Pastor of Sacred Heart Community, Catholic Church of America, in San Diego, California.
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Peter, 38
Linus, 67
Ancletus {Cletus}, 76
Clement, 88
Evaristus, 97
Alexander I, 105
Sixtus I, 115
Telesphorus, 125
Hygimus, 136
Pius I, 140
Anicetus, 155
Soter, 166
Eleutherius, 175
Victor I, 189
Zephyrinus, 199
Callistus I, 217
Urban I, 222
Pontian, 230
Anterus, 235
Fabian, 236
Cornelius, 251
Lucius I, 253
Stephen I, 254
Sixtus II, 257
Dionysius, 259
Felix I, 269
Eutychian, 275
Caius, 283
Marcellinus, 296
Marcellus I, 308
Eucebius, 309
Melchiades {Miltiades}, 311
Sylvester I, 314
Marcus, 336
Julius I, 337
Liberius, 352 Liberius was expelled from Rome by the Aryan Emperor
Constantius, during his absence, the See of Rome was held by Felix II, who
resigned upon the return of Liberius from his two year exile
Damasus I, 366
Siricius, 384
Anastasius I, 399
Innocent I, 401
Zosimus, 417
Boniface I, 418
Celestine I, 422
Sixtus III, 432
Leo I, 440
Hilary, 461
Simplicius, 468
Felix III, 483
Gelasius I, 492
Anastasius II, 496
Symmachus, 498
Hormisdus, 514
John I, 523
Felix IV, 526
Boniface II, 530
John II, 535
Agapitus, 535
Sylverius, 536
Vigilus, 537
Pelagius I, 556
John III, 561
Benedict I, 575
Pelagius II, 579
Gregory I, 590
Sabinianus, 604
Boniface III, 607
Boniface IV, 608
Deusdedit {Adeodatus I}, 615
Boniface V, 619
Honorius, 625
Severinus, 640
John IV, 640
Theodore I, 642
Martin I, 649
Eugene I, 654
Vitalian, 657
Adeodatus II, 672
Donus, 676
Agatho, 678
Leo II, 682
Benedict II, 684
John V, 685
Conon, 686
Sergius I, 687
John VI, 701
John VII, 705
Sisinnius, 708
Constantine, 708
Gregory II, 715
Gregory III, 731
Zachary, 741
Stephen II, 752
Paul I, 757
Stephen III, 768
Adrian I, 772
Leo III, 795
Stephan IV, 816
Paschal I, 817
Eugene II, 824
Valentine, 827
Gregory IV, 827
Sergius II, 844
Leo IV, 847
Benedict III, 855
Nicholas I, 858
Adrian II, 867
John VIII, 872
Marinus I, 882
Adrian III, 884
Stephan V, 885
Formosus, 891
Boniface VI
Steven VI, 897
Romanus, 897
Theodore II, 897
John IX, 898
Benedict IV, 900
Leo V, 903
Sergius III, 904
Anastasius III, 911
Landus, 913
John X, 914
Leo VI, 938
Stephan VII, 928
John XI, 931
Leo VII, 936
Stephen VIII, 939
Maginus II, 942
Agapitus II, 946
John XIII, 955
Leo VII, 963
Benedict V, 964
John XIV, 965
Benedict VI, 973
Benedict VII, 974
John XIV, 983
John XV, 985
Gregory V, 996
Sylvester II, 999
John XVII, 1003
John XVIII, 1004
Sergius IV, 1009
Benedict VIII, 1012
John XIX, 1024
Benedict IX, 1032
Sylvester III, 1045
Benedict IX {Second time},1045
Gregory VI, 1045
Clement II, 1046
Benedict IX {Third time},1047
Damasus II, 1048
Leo IX, 1049
Victor II, 1055
Stephan IX, 1057
Nicholas II, 1059
Alexander II, 1061
Gregory VII, 1073
Victor III, 1087
Urban II, 1088
Paschal II, 1099
Gelasius II, 1118
Callistus II, 1119
Honorius II, 1124
Innocent II, 1130
Celestine II, 1143
Lucius II, 1144
Eugene III 1145
Anastasius IV, 1153
Adrian IV, 1154
Alexander III, 1159
Lucius III, 1181
Urban III, 1185
Gregory VIII, 1187
Clement III, 1187
Celestine III, 1191
Innocent III, 1198
Honorius III, 1216
Gregory IX, 1227
Celestine IV, 1241
Innocent IV, 1243
Alexander IV, 1254
Urban IV, 1261
Clement IV, 1265
Gregory X, 1271
Innocent V, 1276
Adrian V, 1276
John XXI, 1276
Nicholas III, 1277
Martin IV, 1281
Honorius IV, 1285
Nicholas IV 1288
Celestine V, 1294
Boniface VIII, 1294
Benedict XI, 1303
Clement V, 1305
John XXII, 1316
Benedict XII, 1334
Clement VI, 1342
Innocent VI, 1352
Urban V, 1362
Gregory XI, 1370
Urban VI, 1378
Boniface IX, 1389
Innocent VII, 1389
Gregory XII, 1406
Martin V, 1417
Eugene IV, 1431
Nicholas V, 1447
Callistus III, 1455
Pius II, 1458
Paul II, 1464
Sixtus IV, 1471
Innocent VIII, 1484
Alexander VI, 1492
Pius III, 1503
Julius II, 1503
Leo X, 1513
Adrian VI, 1522
Clement VII, 1523
Paul III, 1534
Julius III, 1550
Marcellus II, 1555
Paul IV, 1555
Pius IV, 1559
Pius V, 1566
Gregory XIII, 1572
Sixtus V, 1585
Urban VII, 1590
Gregory XIV, 1590
Innocent IX, 1591
Clement VIII, 1592
Leo XI, 1605
Paul V, 1605
Gregory XV 1621
Urban VIII, 1623
Innocent X, 1644
Alexander VII, 1655
Antonio Barberini, 1655. nephew of Urban VIII, was consecrated to the Episcopate under authority of the Bishop of Rome, by Bishops Scanarello, Bottini and Govotti. He was Archbishop of Remes 1657 until his death in 1671, and was made a Cardinal. It is from Bishop Barberini that the Roman Succession from Peter branches off from the Bishops of Rome
Michel le Tellier was consecrated by Barberini in 1668. He was confessor to King Louie XIV of France, and a Jesuit Provincal.
Jacques Benigne de Boussoit, was consecrated by le Tellier in 1670 as Bishop of Mieux, France
James Coyon de Matignon, was consecrated by de Bousseut in 1693.
Dominique Marie Varlet, Consecrated in 1719 in Paris by Bishop de Matignon, assisted by the Bishop of Qubec and the Bishop of Claremont. He was named Coadjutor to the Roman Catholic Bishop of Babylon who died on November 20, 1717 and Bishop Varlet succeeded to the title. After a period in Persia at Schamake, he was susspended from office for alleged technical irregularities, including the confirmation of 604 candidates in Holland whom he had confirmed at the request of the Church in Amsterdam. The Dutch Church had been without a Bishop for 18 years as a punishment from Rome because the Dutch Church refused to cooperate in the persecution of the "Jansenists" in Holland. Following the election of
Cornelius Van Steenhoven to serve as Archbishop of Utrecht, the Primatial See of Holland, Varlet agreed to perform the Consecration, which he did on October 15, 1724, thus making Van Steenhoven the seventh Archbishop of Utrecht and canonical successor to Saint Willibrord, the British missionary who had brought the faith to Holland. In this consecration was born the Old Catholic Church.
Johannes an Stiphout (1745-1777)
Walter van Nieuwenhuisen (1768–1797)
Adrianus Johannes Broekman (1778-1800)
Johannes Jacobus van Rhijn (1797–1808)
Lambertus de Jong (1865-1867)
Willibrord van Os (1814–1825)
Johannes Bon (1819-1841)
Johannes van Santen (1825–1858)
Johannes Heijkamp (1875–1892)
Gaspardus Johannes Rinkel (1873-1906)
Gerardus Gul (1892–1920)
Arnold Harris Matthew was consecrated on April 28, 1908 by Archbishop Gul of Utrecht, assisted by Bishop J. J. Van Thiel of Haarlem Bishop N. B. P. Spit of Deventer and Bishop J. Demmel of Bonn, Germany to serve as the First Old Catholic Bishop of Britain.
Frederick Samuel Willoughby, 1914
James I Wedgwood, 1916
Irving S. Cooper, 1919
Charles Hampton, 1931
Herman A. Spruit. Consecrated by Lowell Paul Wadle, Charles H. Hampton (Liberal Catholic) and H. Francis Marshall (Greek Melchite), as First Bishop of the Church Universal.
Paul Michael Clemens, 1988. Consecrated by Spruit and W. Blillinger, as Bishop of the Church of Antioch
Joseph Philip Sousa, 1991. Consecrated by Clemens and Richard Alston Gundrey, as Bishop of the Church of Antioch
Willibrord Johannes Van Campenhout, 1993. Consecrated Autocephalous Bishop by Sousa. Bishop to the Christians of Saint John.
William Dennis Donavan, 1993. Consecrated by Van Campenhout.
Robert Joseph Allmen, 1995. Consecrated by Donavan. Presiding Bishop of the American Catholic Church. Later, Archbishop and Presiding Bishop of the Reformed Catholic Church.
Phillip Zimmerman, 2004. Consecrated by Allmen as Bishop.
John A. Bell, Consecrated by Zimmerman as Bishop
Christopher Carpenter, 2011 Consecrated by Bell as Bishop. He consecrated
MARK RANDALL EARL, on January 23, 2016, as Coadjutor Bishop to assist Bishop Abel for the Catholic Church of America. Bishop Earl became the second Presiding Bishop on September 11, 2016 upon Bishop Abel’s smi-retirement. Bishop Earl is the Pastor of Sacred Heart Community, Catholic Church of America, in San Diego, California.
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On 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 PPXIII 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
Who on August 15, 1945, Bishop Carlos Duarte-Costa consecrated Salomao 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 November 21, 1998, consecrated Paul Victor Verhaeren and Wayne Moore Hay
Who on April 19, 2003, consecrated Bruce D. Campbell
Who on June 2003, consecrated Shane Price
Who on 1 February 2005, consecrated Phillip Zimmerman
Who on 29 January 2011 John A. Bell Consecrated Christopher Carpenter
Christopher M. Carpenter Consecrated
MARK RANDALL EARL, on January 23, 2016, as Coadjutor Bishop to assist Bishop Abel for the Catholic Church of America. Bishop Earl became the second Presiding Bishop on September 11, 2016 upon Bishop Abel’s smi-retirement. Bishop Earl is the Pastor of Sacred Heart Community, Catholic Church of America, in San Diego, California.
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On 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 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 2003, consecrated Shane Price
Who on 1 February 2005, consecrated Phillip Zimmerman
Who on 30 January 2010 consecrated John A. Bell
Who on 29 January 2011 John A. Bell Consecrated Christopher Carpenter.
Christopher Carpenter Consecrated
MARK RANDALL EARL, on January 23, 2016, as Coadjutor Bishop to assist Bishop Abel for the Catholic Church of America. Bishop Earl became the second Presiding Bishop on September 11, 2016 upon Bishop Abel’s smi-retirement. Bishop Earl is the Pastor of Sacred Heart Community, Catholic Church of America, in San Diego, California.
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OLD CATHOLIC SUCCESSION IIANTONIO CARDINAL BARBERINI, as Archbishop of Rheims, 1657.
CHARLES-MAURICE LE TELLIER, succeeding as Archbishop of Rheims, November 12, 1668. He, in turn, consecrated in the church of the Cordeliers, Pontoise
JACQUES BENIGNE BOSSUET, as Bishop of Condom in Gascony, September 21, 1670. He was transferred to the See of Meaux by Pope Clement X, 1671. He, in turn, consecrated in the church of Chartreuse, Paris
JACQUES DE GOYON DE MATIGNON, Bishop of Condom, 1693. By order of Pope Clement XI, he consecrated at Paris
DOMINIQUE MARIE VARLET, as Bishop of Ascalon in partibus, and coadjutor to the Bishop of Babylon, Persia, February 12, 1719.In response to the appeals of the Chapter of the Old Catholic Church of Utrecht, he consecrated
PETRUS JOHANNES MEINDAERTS, as Archbishop of Utrecht, October 17, 1739. He consecrated
JOHANNES AN STIPHOUT, as Bishop of Haarlem, July 11, 1745. He, in turn, consecrated
WALTER VAN NIEUWENHUISEN, as Archbishop of Utrecht, February 7, 1768. He consecrated
ADRIANUS JOHANNES BROEKMAN, as Bishop of Haarlem, June 21, 1778. He consecrated
JOHANNES JACOBUS VAN RHIJN, as Archbishop of Utrecht, November 7, 1805. He consecrated
GISBERTUS CORNELIUS DE JONG, as Bishop of Deventer, November 2, 1805. He consecrated
WILLIBRORD VAN OS, as Archbishop of Utrecht, April 24, 1814. He consecrated
JOHANNES BON, as Bishop Haarlem, April 22, 1819. He consecrated
JOHANNES VAN SANTEN, as Archbishop of Utrecht, June 14, 1825. He consecrated
HERMANNUS HEYKAMP, as Bishop of Deventer, July 17, 1854. He consecrated
GASPARDUS JOHANNES RINKEL, as Bishop of Haarlem, August 11, 1873. He consecrated
GERARDUS GUL, as Archbishop of Utrecht, May 11, 1892. He consecrated
ARNOLD HARRIS MATHEW, as Regionary Old Catholic Bishop for Great Britian, April 28, 1908, at St. Gertrude's Church, Utrecht. He was elected Archbishop in 1911. He had been ordained to the Priesthood by Archbishop Eyre, at St. Andrew's Roman Catholic Cathedral, Glasgow, June 24, 1877. He consecrated
RUDOLPH DE LANDAS BERGHES, on June 29, 1913. He consecrated
CARMEL HENRY CARFORA, on October 4, 1916. Carfora was elected Archbishop of the United States for all Old Catholics. He consecrated
EARL ANGLIN LAWRENCE JAMES, on June 17, 1945. He, in turn, consecrated
GRANT TIMOTHY BILLET, on December 25, 1950. He, in turn, consecrated
NORMAN R. PARR, on October 23, 1979. He, in turn, consecrated
MAURICE DARRYL MCCORMICK, on July 14, 1991. He, in turn, consecrated
IRWIN R. YOUNG, JR., on September 21, 1997. He in turn, consecrated
PAUL VICTOR VERHAEREN and WAYNE MOORE HAY on November 21, 1998
BRUCE D. CAMPBELL on April 19, 2003, He consecrated
SHANE PRICE on April 19, 2003, He consecrated
PHILLIP ZIMMERMAN on 1 February 2005, He consecrated
G. PETER POSTHUMUS on 7 October 2006, He consecrated
RAELYNN FABICK SCOTT on 14 April 2007, He consecrated
MARCIS HECKMEN on 3 October 2008, He consecrated
JOSEPH CORRIGAN & BRIAN WATSON
JOHN A. BELL, consecrated on 30 January 2010. He consecrated
CHRISTOPHER CARPENTER on 29 January 2011. he consecrated
MARK RANDALL EARL, on January 23, 2016, as Coadjutor Bishop
to assist Bishop Abel for the Catholic Church of America.
Bishop Earl became the second Presiding Bishop on September
11, 2016 upon Bishop Abel’s smi-retirement. Bishop Earl is
the Pastor of Sacred Heart Community, Catholic Church of
America, in San Diego, California.
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OLD CATHOLIC and Pillipine
Inndependant Church SUCCESSION III through Archbishop Robert
M. Clement
ANTONIO CARDINAL BARBERINI, as Archbishop
of Rheims, 1657.
CHARLES-MAURICE LE TELLIER, succeeding as
Archbishop of Rheims, November 12, 1668. He, in turn,
consecrated in the church of the Cordeliers, Pontoise
JACQUES BENIGNE BOSSUET, as Bishop of
Condom in Gascony, September 21, 1670. He was transferred to
the See of Meaux by Pope Clement X, 1671. He, in turn,
consecrated in the church of Chartreuse, Paris
JACQUES DE GOYON DE MATIGNON, Bishop of
Condom, 1693. By order of Pope Clement XI, he consecrated at
Paris
DOMINIQUE MARIE VARLET, as Bishop of
Ascalon in partibus, and coadjutor to the Bishop of Babylon,
Persia, February 12, 1719.In response to the appeals of the
Chapter of the Old Catholic Church of Utrecht, he
consecrated
PETRUS JOHANNES MEINDAERTS, as Archbishop
of Utrecht, October 17, 1739. He consecrated
JOHANNES AN STIPHOUT, as Bishop of Haarlem,
July 11, 1745. He, in turn, consecrated
WALTER VAN NIEUWENHUISEN, as Archbishop of
Utrecht, February 7, 1768. He consecrated
ADRIANUS JOHANNES BROEKMAN, as Bishop of
Haarlem, June 21, 1778. He consecrated
JOHANNES JACOBUS VAN RHIJN, as Archbishop
of Utrecht, November 7, 1805. He consecrated
GISBERTUS CORNELIUS DE JONG, as Bishop of
Deventer, November 2, 1805. He consecrated
WILLIBRORD VAN OS, as Archbishop of
Utrecht, April 24, 1814. He consecrated
JOHANNES BON, as Bishop Haarlem, April 22,
1819. He consecrated
JOHANNES VAN SANTEN, as Archbishop of
Utrecht, June 14, 1825. He consecrated
HERMANNUS HEYKAMP, as Bishop of Deventer,
July 17, 1854. He consecrated
GASPARDUS JOHANNES RINKEL, as Bishop of
Haarlem, August 11, 1873. He consecrated
GERARDUS GUL, as Archbishop of Utrecht,
May 11, 1892. He consecrated
ARNOLD
HARRIS MATHEW,
as Regionary Old Catholic Bishop for Great Britian, April
28, 1908, at St. Gertrude's Church, Utrecht. He was elected
Archbishop in 1911. He had been ordained to the Priesthood
by Archbishop Eyre, at St. Andrew's Roman Catholic parish in
Glasgow, June 24, 1877. He consecrated,
LANDAS BERGHES,
on June 29, 1913. He consecrated,
HENRY CARMEL CARFORA, on October 4, 1916.
Carfora was elected Archbishop of the United States for all
Old Catholics. He consecrated,
Richard Arthur Marchenna[as Suffragan Bishop of Newark
with delegated ordinary authority over congregations in New
Jersey and New York. He consecrated.
Robert M. Clement as a Bishop on October 6,
1974 The Most Reverend Robert Mary Clement, Archbishop of
North America of the original American Catholic Church
(1915) and the original Eucharistic Catholic Church; founder
of The Church of the Beloved Disciple, in Manhattan
(1968-1986); the first openly gay bishop in the United
States; the first major urban Apostolic and Sacramental work
for the LGBT community in New York; and, the co-creator of
term “Holy Union” and the first “Holy Union” was celebrated
at the Church of the Beloved Disciple in July 1970 by the
Rev. Robert Mary Clement. Robert Clement was born on March
12, 1925 in Lee Park, Pennsylvania, of Roman Catholic and
Episcopalian parents.
In college, he became aware of the Old Catholic
movement, and felt comfortable with it as a way to study and
prepare for the priesthood.
Archbishop William Henry Francis Brothers ordained him as a
priest in the Old Catholic Church of America on August 8,
1948. As a
result of intercommunion, two years later he was transferred
to The Old Roman Catholic Church under the jurisdiction of
Archbishop Richard Arthur Marchenna (1911-1982).
For internal reasons he was conditionally re-ordained
on November 1, 1950.
Clement was a Bishop-Elect under Marchenna in 1958.
He was at that time the Vicar General and was elected
to be Co-Adjutor to Archbishop Marchenna.
Recognizing a different call within the priesthood, he was
accepted into The Polish National Catholic Church; again, in
order to regularize the standing of his priesthood, he was
conditionally ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Thaddeus
F. Zielinski on June 22, 1959 in Perth Amboy, NJ.
In August 1959 Fr Clement met his life-companion John
Darcy Noble while in London; a relationship, which lasted 44
years until Bishop Noble’s death on September 21, 2003.
Consequently, Fr Clement founded an independent work called
the American Orthodox Church of the United States (Western
Orthodox), based upon an apostolic and sacramental system
for which he became the Curial Administrator.
This was in response to Fr Clement’s strong desire to
do an open and public outreach to the LGBTQ+ community. So
in 1968, Fr Clement and friends founded the initial work of
The Church of the Beloved Disciple, which primarily served
the New York LGBTQ+ community.
However, after the Stonewall uprising, Fr Clement heeded its
clarion call to action, and in New York City’s first Gay
Parade, Fr Clement marched as the only openly-gay priest and
in collar carrying the banner “Gay People This Is Your
Church,” while his life-companion John Darcy Noble
passed–out fliers inviting people to attend “The Church of
the Beloved Disciple.”
Over 800 people attended the following Mass at the
church at 9th and 28th Street.
In essence, Clement had inherited the work of the
1946 Eucharistic Catholic Church.
So much so that, in 1972 Bishop Hyde legally
transferred to Clement the official incorporation papers of
the original American Catholic Church (founded by Archbishop
Vilatte in1915) so that Beloved Disciple now functioned
under it as the incorporated American Catholic Church.
Two years later, Bishop Hyde also authorized Bishop
Clement to continue the mission of the Eucharistic Catholic
Church at Beloved Disciple.
The year 1974 was a highmark in Clement’s work and
life, as Archbishop Richard A. Marchenna consecrated Robert
M. Clement as a Bishop on October 6, 1974, assisted by
Bishop Martin Luther Williams, which was televised over New
York City, and received national attention as the first
openly gay bishop’s consecration.
Clement and Noble also coined the term “Holy Union”
and Clement was the first to publicly perform Holy Unions in
July 1970.
Bishop Clement was a lightning-rod for the News Media
whenever they wanted a quote concerning the naturalness of
gay and lesbian people.
In 1986, Bishops Clement and Noble wanted to retire from the
fray of New York City, so Fr Philip Vasianto became the
rector of Beloved Disciple in New York City until his death.
When Fr Philip died of AIDS, Bishops Clement & Noble
were living in southern California and too far away to
return to over-see The Church of the Beloved Disciple.
In California, Bishop Clement made ecumenical relations with
other independent Catholic jurisdictions and work, while his
personal time was occupied by caring for a gay Godson Tim
who had AIDS, and in caring for Bishop John who had
diabetes.
On October 24, 1993,
Archbishop Marcario Ga, Obispo Maximo (1972-1981) of the Philippine Independent Church (IFI), recognized Archbishop Clement’s ecclesial standing and sub-conditione consecrated Robert M Clement as the regional Bishop of San Diego. Archbishop Ga was assisted by Bishop Robert Halliwell II and Bishop David Riggs at St.Andrew Church in Los Alamitos.
During the San Diego years, Clement underwent deep
introspection and Bishop Robert began to reassess his
understanding of his calling and service, and the meaning of
Jesus’ words.
His readings expanded to the Jesus Seminars, the Historical
Jesus, and he became aware of the historical Celtic Church
and found within it similarities to the philosophies of
Buddhism and Sufism.
He had an epiphany in realizing that since he had
been a leader in LGBT human rights and since many churches
now embraced his lead; it was now time to present a new
vision of spirituality and the church.
Clement saw in the Celtic church that it was free of
the Augustinian concepts of sin, guilt and punishment, and
how the Celtic church expressed in greater depth many of the
spiritual concepts of The Church of the Beloved Disciple.
He Consecrated
MARK RANDALL EARL, on January 23, 2016, as Coadjutor Bishop to assist Bishop Abel for the Catholic Church of America. Bishop Earl became the second Presiding Bishop on September 11, 2016 upon Bishop Abel’s simi-retirement. Bishop Earl is the Pastor of Sacred Heart Community, Catholic Church of America, in San Diego, California.
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MARK RANDALL EARL, on January 23, 2016, as Coadjutor Bishop
to assist Bishop Abel for the Catholic Church of America.
Bishop Earl became the second Presiding Bishop on September
11, 2016 upon Bishop Abel’s smi-retirement. Bishop Earl is
the Pastor of Sacred Heart Community, Catholic Church of
America, in San Diego, California.
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The founding Bishop of the Liberal
Catholic Church was James I. Wedgwood of the Wedgwood China
family, formerly a Cleric in the Church of England
(Anglican). Wedgwood grew dissatisfied with the Church, and
discovered the Theosophical Society, which had a stronger
appeal to his sense of life and justice. When Archbishop
Arnold Harris Mathew sought to ordain those clergy who were
dissatisfied with the Church of England, Wedgwood was one
who joined the new Old Catholic Church of England.
Archbishop Mathew knew of Wedgwood's membership in the
Theosophical Society, as well as that of other clergy in the
Old Catholic Church of England, and originally promised that
this would not be a problem, but later retracted that
promise and asked all clergy to resign from the Theosophical
Society. Not willing to do so, Father Wedgwood and most of
the Old Catholic Church in England found themselves without
a Bishop as they withdrew from Archbishop Mathew's
leadership.
One of the men who Archbishop Mathew
had consecrated to the Episcopate,
Bishop Frederick
Samuel Willoughby, offered to consecrate and
elevate one of the withdrawn clergy to the Episcopate so
that they would not be without a Bishop. Father Wedgwood was
selected and elevated to the Episcopate on February 13th,
1916. The Church was eventually reorganized and renamed The
Liberal Catholic Church. Archbishop Wedgwood then
consecrated another former Anglican Priest,
Charles W. Leadbeater, later that same year, with Bishop
Leadbeater going on to become the 2nd Presiding Bishop of
the Church in later years.
The LCCI arose from the 1941 schism
of the Liberal Catholic Church in the United States, which
surrounded the controversy involving American Regionary
Bishop Charles Hampton, who wished to keep adherence to
Theosophical tenets optional for all clergy, in accordance
with the wishes of the church's first two Presiding Bishops,
James I. Wedgwood and Charles W. Leadbeater.
During the controversy of the 1940s,
3rd Presiding Bishop
Frank W. Pigott, who
embraced a more Theosophical vision for the church's future,
suspended Bishop Hampton and all the clergy under him who
refused to endorse his Episcopal replacement. Bishop Pigott
also ordered the confiscation of church property at the
Regionary headquarters in California. The American Synod saw
this as a breach of canon law and a violation of the laws of
California under which the church had been incorporated in
America.
The majority of clergy in America,
who had supported Bishop Hampton, broke with Bishop Pigott
and continued as the Liberal Catholic Church, with
Bishop Ray M. Wardall
becoming the 4th Presiding Bishop in 1943. The Church
eventually won the right in a court of law to use the name
The Liberal Catholic Church (while being called the Liberal
Catholic Church International in the rest of the world),
although the litigation was settled after Bishop Hampton's
death.
In 1955, Edward M Matthews became the 5th Presiding Bishop, followed by Francis Erwin in 1962. The 7th Presiding Bishop was William H. Daw in 1970, followed by Joseph Neth in 1974. The 9th Presiding Bishop was Dean E. Bekken in 1989, followed by Bishop, Charles W. Finn, who Consecrated Stanly J Harris in 2004 who Consecrated
MARK RANDALL EARL, on January 23, 2016, as Coadjutor Bishop
to assist Bishop Abel for the Catholic Church of America.
Bishop Earl became the second Presiding Bishop on September
11, 2016 upon Bishop Abel’s smi-retirement. Bishop Earl is
the Pastor of Sacred Heart Community, Catholic Church of
America, in San Diego, California.
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