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Bishop-Elect Gabrielle Crofts
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A Brief History,
Lines of Apostolic Succession &
Sub Conditione
Introduction to Bishop Jerry Stephenson
Bishop Stephenson's calling by God to the Christian Family in the mission field started
at at the age of 23. He entered ministry in 1984, and served in various churches around the United States as a Pastor and Spritual Counselor in the Southern Baptist Conference with an additional fifteen years in non-dominational ministries. He entered the Catholic Faith in 1995, but maintained his ministerial work in non-denominational ministries.
He has taught in various colleges, universities and seminaries, and is the author of two books about his life and his walk with God.
Bishop Stephenson is in Good Standing with the The Saint Francis of Assisi Mission Church
(of the Old Catholic Orthodox Church of Cluj-Napoca Synod Diocese); The Old Catholic Orthodox
Bishops of the Western Rite; The Roman Catholic Church; The Eastern Orthodox Churches; The
Christian Orthodox Catholic Church; The Old Catholic Orthodox Church, Cluj-Napoca Synod;
Grace Church of Miami Shores; the Anglican Church; Independent Catholic Churches; and their
affiliated Churches and Missions world-wide.
Bishop Stephenson is currently the acting Apostolic Administrator of The Christ Catholic Church, The Old Catholic Orthodox Bishops of the Western
Rite; The Christian Orthodox Catholic Church; and the The Old Catholic Orthodox Church, Cluj-
Napoca Synod.
To work with the people on the local level, he takes time out of his busy
schedule to devote time as the Parish Priest at The Saint Francis of Assisi Mission Church
in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Bishop Stephenson is consecrated "Sub Conditione". As such, under the Sub Conditione rule, Bishop Stephenson's Valid Order is in the Line of Succession of the Apostles
(Apostolic Succession)
On March 28, 2009, Bishop Stephenson was consecrated sub conditione as a Bishop.
Sub Conditione consecration is a procedure
in which two already consecrated bishops consecrate each
other, thereby sharing their apostolic lines. In that way,
each of their churches recognizes without question the
apostolic succession of the other. This has been used, for
example, to remove doubts about the validity of Anglican and
Episcopalian successions by adding the universally recognized
Old Catholic line.
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.
Bishop William Donovan who consecrated Bishop Bowman on April 18, 1996 was in the
direct line of Archbishops
Wadle and
Aneed. The Principal Consecrator, Bishop
Donovan, was, at that time, the Primate
of the American Catholic Church.
Bishop Orlando Lima y Aguirre, in the Old Catholic line
of Bishops Vilatte, Mathew, De Landas, and
Carfora was a second consecrator. Bishop Grant Cover, an independent Anglican bishop, was Bishop Bowman's third consecrator Later in 1996, Bishop Bowman was consecrated sub conditione by Archbishop Maurice McCormick. In 1998, Bishop Bowman was again consecrated sub conditione by
Bishop John Reeves, the pastor of St. Peter the Apostle, and Bishop of the Catholic Church of The Americas, Diocese of St. Petersburg, Florida, who is in the
Bishop Vilatte line and also has a
succession from Bishop Carlos Duarte Costa of Brazil, a
Roman Catholic bishop who broke with Rome.
On March 28, 2006, Bishop was consecrated sub conditione by Bishop Alfred DeLeo, who was consecrated By Bishop Robert M. Bowman, thus bringing him in line with true Apostolic Succession.
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Lines of Succession
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
&
BRAZILIAN CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC CHURCH 1.
Scipione Rebiba, Auxiliary Bishop of Chieti,
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople, was elected Titular
Bishop of Amicle and Auxiliary to Gian Pietro Cardinal
Carafa, Archbishop of Chieti (who later became Pope
Paul IV) on March 16, 1541. Rebiba consecrated Guilio Antonio Santoro.
2.
Guilio Antonio Santoro,
Archbishop of Santa Severina, was consecrated on
March 12, 1566 in the Pauline Chapel of the
Vatican Apostolic Palace. His co-consecrator’s were Annibale Caracciolo, Bishop of Isola and Giacomo
de`Giacomelli, Bishopemeritus of Belcastro. Santoro
consecrated Girolama Bernerio.
3.
Girolama
Bernerio, O.P., Bishop of Ascoli Piceno, was consecrated on September 7, 1586 in the Basilicaof
the Twelve Holy Apostles, Rome. His co-consecrator’s were
Guilio Masetti, Bishop of Reggio Emilia and
Ottaviano Paravicini, Bishop of Alessandria.
Bernerio consecrated Galeazzo Sanvitale.
4.
Galeazzo Sanvitale, Archbishop of Bari. He was
consecrated April 4, 1604 in the Chapel of the Apostolic Sacristy, Rome. His
co-consecrator`s were Claudio Rangoni, Bishop of
Piacenza and Giovanni Ambrogio Caccia, Bishop of Castro
di Toscana. Sanvitale consecrated Lodovico Ludovisi.
5.
Lodovico Ludovisi, Cardinal Archbishop
of Bologna, was consecrated on May 2, 1621 in the private chapel of Sanvitale, near
St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome. Assisting Sanvitale were
Cosmo de Torres, Titular Archbishop of Hadrianopolis
and Ottavio Ridolfi, Bishop of Atiano. Ludovisi
consecrated Luigi Caetani.
6.
Luigi Caetani,
Titular Patriarch of Antioch, was
consecrated on June 12, 1622
in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome. Assisting Ludovisi were: Galeazzo
Sanvitale, Archbishop emeritus of Bari and Vulpiano
Volpi, Archbishop emeritus of Chieti. Caetani
consecrated Ulderico Carpegna.
7.
Ulderico Carpegna, Bishop of Gubbio was consecrated on October 7, 1630 in the Pauline Chapel of the
Apostolic Palace of the Quirinal, Rome. His co-consecrator’s
were Antonio Ricciulli, Bishop emeritus of Belcastro
and Vicegerent of Rome, and Benedetto Landi, Bishop of
Fossombrone. Carpegna consecrated
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni.
8.
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni, was consecrated on May 2, 1666 Bishop of Montefiascone e Corneto, in the Church
of San Silvestro in Capite, Rome. Assisting Carpegna
were Stefano Ugolini, Titular Archbishop of Corinth and
Giovanni Tommaso Pinelli, Bishop of Albenga.
Altieri consecrated Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P..
9.
Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P., Cardinal Archbishop of
Manfredonia (who later became Pope Benedict XIII), was consecrated on February 3, 1675 in
the Church of SS. Domenico e Sisto, Rome. His co-consecrator’s
were Stefano Brancaccio, Archbishop-Bishop of Viterbo e
Tuscania and Costanzo Zani, O.S.B., Bishop of Imola.
Orsini consecrated Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini.
10.
Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini, Titular Archbishop of Theodosia, who became Pope Benedict XIV in 1740, was consecrated on July 16, 1724 in the
Pauline Chapel of the Apostolic Palace of the Quirinal, Rome.
Orsini was assisted by Giovanni Francesco Nicolai,
O.F.M.Ref., Titular Archbishop of Myra and Nicola Maria
Lercari, Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus. ( **Prospero
Lorenzo Lambertini and those previous to him, are in the
Episcopal Lineage of His Holiness, John Paul II – Karl
Wojtyla**). Lambertini consecrated Carlo della Torre Rezzonico.
11.
Carlo della Torre Rezzonico, was consecrated on March 19, 1743 and became
Pope Clement XIII in 1758. His co-consecrator’s were
Archbishops Scopio Borghese and Ignatius Reali.
Pope Clement XIII (Rezzonico) consecrated Bernadinus Giraud.
12.
Bernadinus Giraud, was consecrated on April 26, 1767 and became a
Cardinal in 1771. Assisted by Archbishop Marcus Antonius
Conti and Bishop Iosefus Maria Carafa, Cardinal
Giraud consecrated on February 23, 1777 Alexander Matthaeus.
13.
Alexander Matthaeus, who became a Cardinal in 1779, was consecrated on February 23, 1777.
Assisted by Bishops Geraldus Macioti and Franciscus
Albertini, Cardinal Matthaeus consecrated Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galeffi.
14.
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galeffi, who became a Cardinal in 1803, was consecrated on September 12, 1819. Assisted by
Archbishops Ioannes Franciscus Falzacappa and
Iosephus della Porta Rondiana, Cardinal Galeffi
consecrated Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni.
15.
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni
was consecrated on December 8, 1822 and became a Cardinal in 1826. Assisted
by Patriarch Joseph Valerga and Bishop Rudensindus
Salvado, Cardinal Fransoni consecrated Carlo Cardinal Sacconi.
16.
Carlo Cardinal Sacconi
was consecrated on June 8, 1851 and became a Cardinal
in 1861. Assisted by Archbishops Salvator Nobili
Vitelleschi and Franciscus Xaverius Fredericus de
Merode, Cardinal Sacconi consecrated Edward Henry Cardinal Howard.
17.
Edward Henry Cardinal Howard
was consecrated on June 30, 1872 and became a Cardinal
in 1877. Assisted by Archbishops Alessandro, Sanminiatelli,
Zabarella and Bishop Guilio Lenti, Cardinal
Howard consecrated Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro.
18.
Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro
was consecrated on December 8, 1882 and became a
Cardinal 1887. In Brazil, Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro
consecrated Joaquim Cardinal Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti.
19.
Joaquim Cardinal Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti
was consecrated, for the Roman Catholic Church, on October 26, 1890 and became a Cardinal in 1905.
Cardinal de Albuquerque Cavalcanti consecrated Sebastião Leme Cardinal da Silveira Cintra.
20.
Sebastião Leme Cardinal da Silveira Cintra,
was consecrated on June 4, 1911 and became an Archbishop in 1921. Assisted by Dom Alberto
Jose Goncalves and Dom Benedito Paulo Alves de
Souza, Archbishop de Silveira Cintra consecrated Carlos Duarte Costa.
21.
Carlos Duarte Costa
who
had been ordained a Roman Catholic priest on April l, 1911.
Costa was consecrated a Roman Catholic bishop on December 8, 1924 and
remained such until he retired in 1945. Costa retired because
Rome refused to take a stand against the relocation of War
Criminals from the Nazi regime to his homeland of Brazil. He
served as the Patriarch of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic
Church from 1945 to 1961. Bishop Carlos Duarte Costa
consecrated Milton Cunha.
22.
Milton Cunha
was
consecrated on June 5, 1960. Bishop Cunha consecrated Propheta and Giuseppe Santo Eusebio Pace.
23.
Giuseppe Santo Eusebio Pace
was consecrated on October 3,
1968. Bishop Pace consecrated Ignazio Antonio Teodosio Pietroburgo.
24.
Ignazio Antonio Teodosio Pietroburgo
was consecrated on October 15, 1978. Bishop
Pietroburgo consecrated Donald Lawrence Jolly-Gabriel.
25.
Donald Lawrence Jolly-Gabriel
was consecrated on June 25,1980 and he consecrated Denis Martel.
26.
Denis Martel
was consecrated on July 8, 1995. Bishop
Martel consecrated John Robert Reeves.
27.
John Robert Reeves
on September 29, 1996. Bishop Reeves
consecrated:
28.
Robert M. Bowman
in 1998.
29.
Alfred DeLeo was re-confirmed in the Catholic Faith, re-ordained, and re-consecrated between
March 10 - 17, 2006, sub conditione by Bishop Robert Bowman, thus bringing him in line with true Apostolic Succession..
30.
Jerry Stephenson was consecrated on March 27, 2009, sub conditione by Bishop Alfred DeLeo, thus bringing him in line with true Apostolic Succession.
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EASTERN (BYZANTIUM) ORTHODOX
&
RUSSIAN
ORTHODOX LINES I. Sergius, who later became the patriarch of
the Russian Orthodox Church, with Raban Ortinski and
Theophilus consecrated Henry Joseph Kleefisch.
II. Henry Joseph Kleefisch. Kleefisch, an American, was fleeing
Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution in 1918, and found
himself in the company of Archbishop Sergius (later
Patriarch of Russia) and two other Orthodox bishops, Raban Ortinski and
Theophilus. The four men were stopped
by revolutionaries and imprisoned for summary execution. Since
Kleefisch was an American, however, they were told that
he could go free.
Realizing that their execution would
literally end the Russian Orthodox Apostolic Succession,
Archbishop Sergius asked to be given half an hour of
prayer with his bishops and Mr. Kleefisch (who was soon
to be released). When they were alone, the Archbishop
explained the situation and begged Kleefisch to accept
the burden of the episcopacy, with the trust that he would
later transmit it to a properly constituted Archbishop for the
Russian Orthodox Christians.
Stunned by the gravity of
the trust, Kleefisch accepted and was consecrated under
the Canon of Necessity at Harbin, Siberia. Shortly thereafter
he was released and returned to Europe. Meanwhile, however,
the Bolsheviks had decided to release the Archbishop and his
companions, and the Russian Church was saved.
When
Kleefisch later came to understand the importance of
his commission, he willingly shared the lineage of Apostolic
Succession for the sake of future unity among the churches. In
1945, Archbishop Lowell Wadle of the American Catholic
Church and Charles Hampton exchanged Apostolic succession with Bishop
Kleefisch. By that time, Archbishop Wadle had
already obtained the Vilatte lines (Malankara
Orthodox, Syrian Malabar, and Jacobite Antiochean)
from Bishops Boyle and Clarkson, and the
Syrian/Melchite Uniate and Byzantine Uniat lines
from Archbishop Aneed, who was in Communion with Rome.
He also obtained the Old Catholic line of Bishops Mathew,
De Landas, and Francis from Bishops Verostek
and Cooper. Finally, in 1957 he traveled to England and
obtained the sixteen lines of Mar Georgius I.
Kleefisch co-consecrated Charles H. Hampton. III.
Charles H. Hampton
was consecrated on September 13th 1931 and,
assisted by Bishop Lowell Paul Wadle and Bishop H. Francis Marshall, consecrated Herman Adrian Spruit.
IV.
Herman Adrian Spruit
was consecrated on June 22nd 1957 and
with co-consecrators Meri Louise Spruit and Bliss Bellinger (and Lowell Paul Wadle?) consecrated Paul Michael Clemens.
V.
Paul Michael Clemens
was consecrated in 1988.
Meri Louise Spruit, with co-consecrators Herman Adrian Spruit, Richard Gundrey, and Paul Michael Clemens consecrated Joseph Philip Sousa.
VI.
Joseph Philip Sousa
was consecrated on July 14, 1991. Meri Louise Spruit, assisted by bishops Richard Gundrey and Joseph Philip Sousa,
consecrated Willibrord Johannes Van Campenhout.
VII.
Willibrord Johannes Van Campenhout
was consecrated on October 10th, 1993 and consecrated William Dennis Donovan.
VIII.
William Dennis Donovan
was consecrated on November 14th, 1993 and, assisted by Lima, Cover, Reeves, and McCormick, consecrated Robert M. Bowman.
IX. Robert M. Bowman was consecrated on April 18, 1996.
X.
Alfred DeLeo was re-confirmed in the Catholic Faith, re-ordained, and re-consecrated between
March 10 - 17, 2006, sub conditione by Bishop Robert Bowman, thus bringing him in line with true Apostolic Succession..
XI.
Jerry Stephenson was consecrated on March 28, 2006, sub conditione by Bishop Alfred DeLeo, thus bringing him in line with true Apostolic Succession.
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OLD
CATHOLIC LINES
1)
Antonio Cardinal Barberini (Jr)
was a nephew of
Pope Urban VIII. In 1627, the Pope appointed him to be
the Grand Prior of the Knights of Malta and Cardinal of the
Roman Catholic Church. In 1628 he was named Papal Legate to
Avignon. He was consecrated in the Ribiba Line of Succession, October 24, 1655, at the church of the novitiate of the Society of Jesus, Rome, by Giovanni Battista Scanaroli, titular bishop of Sidon, assisted by Lorenzo Gavotti, Theat, bishop of Ventimilia, and by Marcantonio Bettoni, T.O.S.F., titular bishop of Coron. Nominated archbishop of Reims by King Louis XIV of France, June 27, 1657; confirmed by the Holy See, retaining the post of camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, July 18, 1667. Opted for the suburbicarian see of Palestrina, November 21, 1661. In 1668 in the
Church of the Sorbonne, Paris, he consecrated as his
co-adjutor with right of succession Charles Maurice Le
Tellier, the son of the Grand Chancellor of
France.
2) Charles Maurice Le Tellier, S.J.,
Duke, and son of the Grand Chancellor of France and co-adjutor
with right of succession to Antoine Barberini, the
Archbishop of Rheims, was consecrated 11 November 1668 at Paris, in the Church of the Sorbonne, by Antoine Cardinal Barberini, Archbishop of Reims, assisted by Pierre de Cambout de Coislin, Bishop of Orléans, and Michel Colbert de Saint-Pouange, Bishop of Macon. He in turn
consecrated, in the church of the Cordeliers, Pontois, the
illustrious Jacques Benigne Bossuet. (Ironic historical
note: As a Jesuit Provincial and confessor to King Louis XIV
of France, Le Tellier was largely responsible for
writing the Papal Bul "Unigenitus" which condemned Jansenism
and paved the way for the future Old Catholic Church of
Utrecht).
3)
Jacques Bénigne Bossuet
(The Eagle of
Meaux) was consecrated Bishop of Condom 21 September 1670 at Pontoise, Church of the Cordeliers, by Charles Maurice Le Tellier, Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus and Coadjutor Archbishop of Reims, assisted by Armand de Monchy d`Hocquincourt, Bishop of Verdun, and Gabriel de Roquette, Bishop of Autun. Pope Clement
X transferred him to the See of Meaux in 1671.
Bossuet was a Roman Catholic predecessor of the future Old Catholic Church because he taught that the Roman Pontiff could err temporarily, but not fall into permanent error. He,
in turn, with a mandate from Pope Clement X,
consecrated Jacques de Goyon de Matignon in the church of
Chartreuse, Paris.
4)
Jacques de Goyon de Matignon,
son of Count De Thorigny, was consecrated 16 April 1673 at Paris, Church of the Carthusians, by Jacques Bénigne Bossuet, Bishop emeritus of Condom, assisted by Gui de Sève de Rochechouart, Bishop of Arras, and Louis Marie Armand de Simiane de Gorde, Bishop of Langres. He was Doyen of Lisieux and Abbe Commendataire
De St. Victor, Paris. By order of Pope Clement XI, he
consecrated Dominique Marie Varlet at Paris.
5)
Dominique Marie Varlet
was consecrated as Bishop of Ascalon in partibus, and coadjutor to the Most Reverend
Pidou of St. Odon, Bishop of Babylon, Persia in February 1719 at Paris, in the lower chapel of the Seminary of the Missions Étrangères, by Jacques de Goyon de Matignon, Bishop emeritus of Condom, assisted by Louis François Duplessis de Mornay, O.F.M., Titular Bishop of Eumenia, and Jean Baptiste Massillon, Bishop of Clermont. Bishop Varlet consecrated four
Archbishops of the Old Catholics at Utrecht (Oud Katholicke
Kerk van Nederland), three of whom died without consecrating successors. In response
to the appeals of the Chapter of the Old Catholic Church of
Utrecht, he consecrated Petrus Johannes
Meindaerts.
6)
Petrus Johannes Meindaerts
was consecrated Archbishop of Utrecht in 1739. He had been one
of several priests ordained in Ireland by Luke Fagan,
Bishop of Meath, afterwards Archbishop of Dublin, with the
view of sustaining the independence of the ancient Church of
the Netherlands, founded by St. Willibrord in the VII
Century. By his consecration to the Episcopate, the succession
of the Old Catholic Church in Holland has been perpetuated.
Archbishop Meindaerts consecrated Johnnes van
Stiphout.
7)
Johannes Van Stiphout
was
consecrated as Bishop of Haarlem by Petrus Johannes Meindaerts 11th of July, 1745. He, in turn,
consecrated:
8)
Gualtherus Michael Van Nieuwenhuisen
was consecrated Archbishop of Utrecht February 7th,
1768 by Johannes Van Stiphout. The new Archbishop received letters of Communion from
Germany, France, Italy and Spain who recognized that the
claims to canonical jurisdiction of the Old Catholic Church of
Utrecht were sound, and her doctrine orthodox. He consecrated
Adrianus Johannes Broekman.
9)
Adrianus Johannes Broekman
was consecrated as Bishop of Haarlem June 21st, 1778 by Gualtherus Michael Van Nieuwenhuisen. He
consecrated Johannes Jacobus van Rhijin.
10)
Johannes Jacobus van Rhijin
was consecrated Archbishop
of Utrecht July 5th., 1805. He consecrated Gilbertus de Jong.
11)
Gilbertus de Jong
was
consecrated Bishop of Deventer November 7th 1805 just after the
formation of the Batavian Republic by the Emperor Napoleon
I. He then consecrated Willibrordus van
Os.
12)
Willibrordus van
Os
was consecrated
Archbishop of Utrecht April 24th 1814. He consecrated Johannes
Bon.
13)
Johannes
Bon
was consecrated
Bishop of Haarlem April 22nd 1819. Bishop Bon was the first
Bishop of the autocephalous Dutch succession not to be
excommunicated by Rome. In 1827 the King of the Netherlands to
the See of Bruges nominated him without objection from Rome.
He consecrated Johannes van Santen.
14)
Johannes van Santen
was consecrated Archbishop of
Utrecht June 14th 1825. He consecrated Hermann Johannes
Heykamp.
15)
Hermann Johannes
Heykamp
was
consecrated as Bishop of Deventer on July 17, 1853 (or 1854).
He became Bishop of Utrecht in 1875. Heykamp
consecrated Casparus Johannes Rinkel.
16)
Casparus Johannes Rinkel
was consecrated Bishop of Haarlem August 11th 1873. This is
the first time that the formal proofs of election were read
during the Mass of Consecration rather than a Papal mandate.
It is also the first time that a new Bishop of the
autocephalous Dutch succession did not notify Rome of his
consecration. Bishop Rinkel consecrated
Gerardus Gul.
17)
Gerardus Gul
was consecrated Archbishop of Utrecht May 11th 1892. Bishop Gul consecrated
Henricus Johannes Theodorus van Vlijmen and
Arnold Harris Mathew.
(Note: Archbishop Gerardus Gul
of Utrecht, Holland, was the first of the Old Catholic Church
line of succession)
18)
Arnold Harris Mathew
was consecrated Regionary Old Catholic Bishop for
Great Britain April 28, 1908, at St. Gertrude's Church, Utrecht by Bishop Gerardus Gul, assisted by Bishop J. J. Van Thiel of Haarlem, Bishop N. B. P. Spit of Deventer and Bishop J. Demmel of Bonn, Germany. He
was elected Archbishop in 1911. Archbishop Eyre, at St.
Andrew’s Roman Catholic Cathedral, had ordained him to the
Priesthood Glasgow in 1877. He came from distinguished Irish
parents. He was the great-grandson of Francis Mathew,
First Earl of Landaff, of Thomastown Castle, Tipperary. He
consecrated Prince Rudolphe Francois Eduard Hamilton de Landas-Berghes.
(Note: Archbishop
Mathew’s archdiocese was in London, England and became
autocephalous)
19)
Rudolphe Francois Eduard Hamilton, Grand Duke of Lorraine-Brabant, Prince de Landas-Berghes and de Roche and Duke of St. Winnock was
consecrated in 1912. He in turn consecrated Henry Carmel
Carfora.
20)
Henry Carmel
Carfora
was
consecrated in 1916. Rene Vilatte also consecrated him
in 1915, however, no historical records can be found.
Carfora was ordained a priest of the Roman Catholic
Church in Italy in 1901. Carfora was elected Archbishop
of the United States for all Old Catholics in 1923. The Most
Reverend Henry Carmel Carfora consecrated several
bishops including Francis Xavier Resch, (*)Albert Dunstan Bell,
and Earl Anglin James.
(Note: Archbishop Carfora
had received two ordinations to the Episcopal level: The
Arnold H. Mathew succession through the Old Catholic
Church of Utrecht and the Joseph Rene Vilatte line of
succession through the Antioch See)
21)
Earl Anglin James
was consecrated on June 17, 1945. He consecrated Grant Timothy Billet.
22)
Grant Timothy Billet
was consecrated December 25,
1950. He consecrated Norman Richard Parr.
23)
Norman Richard Parr, D.D. was consecrated
on October 23, 1979. He was Doctor of Divinity, Archbishop
Patriarch of the Old Catholic Church in North
America. He consecrated Maurice Darryl McCormick.
24)
Maurice Darryl McCormick
was
consecrated on July 14, 1991. Bishop, Patriarch of the Agape
of Jesus Independent Catholic Church, President of the
American Association of Independent Catholic Bishops, Doctor
in Education and Doctor of Divinity. He consecrated Orlando Hyppolitus Lima Y Aguirre.
25)
Orlando Hyppolitus Lima Y Aguirre
was consecrated June 3, 1995 in
Warrensburg, NY, USA. Ph.D. and Letters, Th.D., Professor,
Master Divinity, Master Education, Agricultural Sugar
Chemistry Engineer, Archbishop of Florida, Cuba the
Caribbean.
25 & 26)
Robert M. Bowman
was
consecrated April 18, 1996 by Bishops Donovan, Lima y Aguirre, and Cover. Bishop Cover is an independent Anglican bishop.
27)
Alfred DeLeo was re-confirmed in the Catholic Faith, re-ordained, and re-consecrated between
March 10 - 17, 2006, sub conditione by Bishop Robert Bowman, thus bringing him in line with true Apostolic Succession..
28)
Jerry Stephenson was consecrated on March 28, 2009, sub conditione by Bishop Alfred DeLeo, thus bringing him in line with true Apostolic Succession.
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CARFORA LINE
Prince Rudolphe Francois Edouard Hamilton, Grand Duke of Lorraine-Brabant, Prince de Landas-Berghes et de Roche and Duke de St. Winnock, Archbishop of the Old Roman Catholic Church, on October 3,1916, consecrated William Henry Francis Brothers, who, with co-consecrator Henry Carmel Carfora on August 25, 1935 consecrated Albert Dunstan Bell. 21)
(*) Albert Dunstan Bell was consecrated on August 25, 1935 and consecrated Edgar Ramon Verostek.
22)
Edgar Ramon Verostek
was consecrated on March 9, 1940 and with Kleefisch (see Russian Orthodox lines below) consecrated Charles H. Hampton.
23)
Charles H. Hampton
was consecrated on September 13th 1931 and,
assisted by Bishop Lowell Paul Wadle and Bishop H. Francis Marshall, consecrated Herman Adrian Spruit.
24)
Herman Adrian Spruit
was consecrated on June 22nd 1957 and
with co-consecrators Meri Louise Spruit and Bliss Bellinger consecrated Paul Michael Clemens. 25)
Paul Michael Clemens
was consecrated in 1988. Herman Adrian Spruit consecrated Meri Louise Spruit who, with co-consecrators Bishop Michael Daignealt and Bishop Timothy Barker consecrated Richard Gundrey. Meri Louise Spruit, with co-consecrators Herman Adrian Spruit, Richard Gundrey, and Paul Michael Clemens consecrated Joseph Philip Sousa.
26)
Joseph Philip Sousa
was consecrated on July 14, 1991. Meri Louise Spruit, assisted by bishops Richard Gundrey and Joseph Philip Sousa,
consecrated Willibrord Johannes Van Campenhout.
27)
Willibrord Johannes Van Campenhout
was consecrated on October 10th, 1993 and consecrated William Dennis Donovan.
28)
William Dennis Donovan
was consecrated on November 14th, 1993 and, assisted by Lima, Cover, Reeves, and McCormick, consecrated Robert M. Bowman.
29) Robert M. Bowman was consecrated on April 18, 1996.
30)
Alfred DeLeo was re-confirmed in the Catholic Faith, re-ordained, and re-consecrated between
March 10 - 17, 2006, sub conditione by Bishop Robert Bowman, thus bringing him in line with true Apostolic Succession..
31)
Jerry Stephenson pending consecration in juristdiction, sub conditione by Bishop Alfred DeLeo, thus bringing him in line with true Apostolic Succession.
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