Apostolic Seccession

Are Celtic Anglican lines of Apostolic seccession Valid? 

 Anglican Succession in an Ecumenical and Celtic Light.

 

For many faithful Christians, questions about apostolic succession are not abstract theological debates. They are deeply personal. They arise at hospital bedsides, in hospice rooms, at baptismal fonts, and at the altar where bread is broken and wine is shared. Beneath the technical language lies a simple longing: Is the grace I am receiving real? Is this Church truly part of the Church Christ founded?

Within Anglicanism—particularly in its catholic and Celtic expressions—the answer offered is a quiet but confident yes.

Apostolic Succession as Care, Not Competition

In its earliest understanding, apostolic succession was never about rivalry between churches. It was about care—about ensuring that communities remained grounded in the teaching of the apostles and shepherded by those entrusted with prayer, sacrament, and oversight. The laying on of hands was not a legal mechanism but a pastoral act, a visible sign that no minister stands alone or self-appointed.

When Anglican succession is approached in this spirit, it becomes clear that the question is not whether Anglican orders perfectly mirror one later-developed model, but whether they faithfully participate in the apostolic life of the Church. Ecumenically, many Christians across traditions have come to recognize that they do.

The Anglican Tradition and the Healing of Divisions

The Anglican Communion emerged in a time of fracture, yet it consistently sought continuity rather than rupture. Bishops were retained. Sacraments were preserved. Creeds were confessed. Even amid reform and disagreement, the intention was not to abandon the historic Church but to renew it.

Over time, Anglicanism has become a place of encounter rather than exclusion—a bridge tradition where Catholic, Orthodox, Reformed, and indigenous Christian streams meet. This has been especially evident in the intentional sharing of apostolic succession.

Shared Episcopal Lines as Signs of Communion

Through the participation of Old Catholic bishops, Polish National Catholic bishops, and at times Orthodox bishops, Anglican consecrations have come to embody a visible ecumenical convergence. These were not acts of defiance toward Rome or the East, but gestures of trust and mutual recognition.

In these moments, the Church quietly testified that apostolic succession does not belong to one jurisdiction alone. It belongs to the whole Body of Christ. When hands from multiple historic traditions are laid upon one bishop, the act becomes a prayer for unity as much as an ordination.

The Celtic Church: An Apostolic Faith Close to the People

The Celtic Christian tradition offers a particularly pastoral lens through which to understand apostolic continuity. Long before centralized ecclesiastical authority reached the western edges of Europe, Christianity had taken deep root among the Celtic peoples of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and parts of Britain.

This Church was unmistakably apostolic. Bishops ordained. The Eucharist was celebrated. Scripture was honored. Monastic communities became centers of prayer, learning, and mission. Apostolic succession was lived relationally—through spiritual fatherhood and motherhood, communal discernment, and deep attentiveness to the Holy Spirit.

The Celtic Church did not experience itself as separated from the wider Church, nor did it see Roman custom as the sole measure of catholicity. It was fully Christian, fully sacramental, and fully rooted in apostolic faith—yet expressed that faith through local culture, language, and rhythm of life.

Monastic Bishops and Missionary Succession

One of the most distinctive features of Celtic Christianity was its integration of episcopal and monastic life. Abbots often exercised authority alongside or even above bishops, not in opposition to apostolic order, but as an expression of it. Succession was carried not only through formal lines but through mission—through saints who founded communities, baptized nations, and passed on the faith by example as much as by institution.

Figures such as Patrick, Columba, Aidan, Brigid, and Cuthbert stand as witnesses to an apostolic succession that was pastoral, missionary, and incarnational. Their authority flowed from holiness, service, and fidelity to Christ rather than from proximity to imperial power.

Anglicanism as a Home for Celtic Continuity

Anglicanism, particularly in its Celtic and catholic expressions, has long recognized itself as an heir to this early Western Christianity. The Anglican emphasis on local church life, pastoral episcopacy, common prayer, and sacramental worship resonates deeply with the Celtic experience.

In this sense, Celtic lineage is not a romantic reclaiming of the past, but a living inheritance—one that affirms that apostolic succession is as much about how ministry is lived as from whom it is received.

Validity in the Service of Healing

When Anglican apostolic succession is understood as a convergence of Roman, Old Catholic, Polish National Catholic, Orthodox, and Celtic streams, its purpose becomes clearer. It exists not to prove superiority, but to serve the faithful. It assures the dying that the Eucharist they receive is real. It assures the baptized that their belonging is secure. It assures ministers that they serve not in isolation, but in communion with the Church across time and space.

This is where validity becomes pastoral.

An Ecumenical Hope

In an age marked by division and exhaustion, Anglican apostolic succession—rooted in convergence rather than exclusion—offers a quiet hope. It suggests that unity may come not through erasing differences, but through recognizing the grace already present in one another’s traditions.

Celtic Christianity reminds the wider Church that holiness, hospitality, and harmony with creation are apostolic virtues. Old Catholic and Orthodox participation reminds us that succession is shared, not hoarded. Anglicanism, at its best, holds these truths gently, offering a space where the ancient Church can still speak in many voices.

Conclusion: A Succession for the Sake of Love

Apostolic succession, rightly understood, is not a weapon in theological debate. It is a gift given so that love, grace, and truth may continue to flow through the Church. Anglican succession—enriched by Roman, Old Catholic, Polish National Catholic, Orthodox, and Celtic lines—stands as a testament to that gift.

For those who worship, serve, and suffer within Anglican life, this succession affirms a simple and holy truth: you belong. Your prayers are heard. Your sacraments are real. Your Church is part of the living, apostolic body of Christ.

 

APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION  of

+Michael Zulinke, PhD., OSB., OCB. 

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                The Celtic Anglican Communion and  Celtic Order of Benedictine chaplains adheres to the following principles regarding the validity of orders and Apostolic Succession.

     

    1. Historically the offices of the church are denoted as Deacon, Priest and Bishop and each is, in and for itself, constituted as a distinct order, sacramental in nature, and deriving its validity from the visible sign of the laying on of hands by those who have been themselves been duly created ministers of the Church in this manner by previously having been ordained and consecrated Priests and Bishops in Apostolic Succession.

     

    1. Apostolic Succession describes a system of ordination and consecration which began with the Disciples who were chosen by Jesus and who, according to the Pastoral Letters contained in Holy Scripture, ordained and consecrated their successors, or who assented to the ordination and consecration of successor ministers of the early Christian Church.

     

    1. In the writings of the Early Church Fathers, in the historical writings of Hegesippus and Irenaeus, and in the injunctions and canons of the Council of Nicea are to be found the early and definitive records of those who were invested with Apostolic Succession and the requirements set forth for such investiture.

     

    1. It is incumbent upon this Church, therefore, to assure that those to whom it would entrust the cure of souls to minister servants of Christ, whether as Deacons, Priests or Bishops, possess an upright character, an acceptable knowledge and understanding of the Christian religion, appropriate academic learning, and those qualities of unfailing charity, humility, and whose personal lives provide a prayerful example of Christian devotion and godly living

     

    1. The concept of Apostolic Succession attempts to ensure that those who would serve as ministers of the Gospel meet with the approbation of the whole Church and not merely that of a single congregation or a sect within a denomination or even a denomination alone. Nevertheless, in every Christian community of faith some have obtained clerical status without fulfilling the justifiable expectations of the Church as a whole or the denomination in which their ordination or consecration occurred. Yet the benefit of Apostolic Succession has been successively passed to many, not by the virtue of mankind, but by the Grace of God.

     

    1. Irregularity of conferral of Apostolic Succession has occasionally occurred. The Church has always distinguished between irregular consecrations and invalid consecrations. A variety of circumstances may lead to the conclusion that a particular bishop was irregularly consecrated but that in no way prevents that bishop from imparting valid orders or sacraments to others. A bishop, on the other hand, whose consecration is invalid, is deemed not to have received Apostolic Succession in any way. The difficulty, for example in having the consecration performed by three bishops in person, often resulted in letters of consent being used as proxies for the absent prelates. Archbishops, Metropolitans, Patriarchs and Popes were assumed to have the power to make bishops solo, occasionally at some great distance, and often by other bishops commissioned for that purpose. An example of an invalid bishop would be an individual who simply took the title, style, and powers without regard to the Laying on of Hands, election or appointment to that office by competent authority.

     

                The Deacons, Priests and Bishops of the Communion of Anglican Churches derive their orders from a number of different lines of Apostolic Succession, some of which intersect, overlap, and offer an arcane study in Church history. Mindful of the history of the Church, that is, the whole of Christian church history, a brief discourse on the major sources of Apostolic Succession for clergy of this denomination may prove useful. Our clerics and bishops derive their orders from one or more of these sources of which the following list offers more specific information. The list is arranged in alphabetical order. In some cases only the name of one consecrating bishop is given for the simple reason that that person represents the chain of title of Apostolic Succession and the inclusion of other co-consecrators would provide no greater surety of that succession but their inclusion would, of necessity, provide a much longer, if less readable, table.

     

    APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION Of

    +Michael Zulinke, PhD., OCB. , OSB.

     

    Legendary Succession of Abbots of Glastonbury Abbey

    (According to ancient tradition and medieval monastic chronicles)

    1. Joseph of Arimathea
      Founder of the Glastonbury community; bearer of the Gospel to Britain.
    2. Joseph’s Twelve Companions
      The first custodians of the holy place; names vary by tradition.
    3. Philip the Apostle
      Named symbolically as apostolic overseer of the British Church.
    4. Aristobulus
      Traditionally called the first bishop in Britain.
    5. Joseph the Younger(sometimes identified as Joseph’s son)
    6. Patrick the Elder
      Early British missionary; distinct from Patrick of Ireland.
    7. Patrick of Ireland
      Said to have retired to Glastonbury near the end of his life.
    8. Benignus
      Companion of St. Patrick; guardian of the sacred enclosure.
    9. Collen
      Early British saint associated with monastic discipline.
    10. Gildas the Wise
      Teacher and scholar; author of De Excidio Britanniae.
    11. David of Wales
      Patron saint of Wales; traditionally visited and endowed Glastonbury.
    12. Paulinus
      Early missionary bishop in Britain.
    13. Augustine the Briton(not Augustine of Canterbury)
    14. Haemgils (Haimo)
      Last of the semi-legendary abbots before firm historical records.

     

     

    Hebraic Celtic Line

    James, Bishop of Jerusalem & Brother of Christ (Acts 15)

    1. Simeon 3. Justus I  4. Zaccheus  5. Tobias  6. Benjamin  7. John I  8. Matthias  9. Philip 10. Seneca  11. Justus II
    2. Levi 13. Ephraim 14. Joseph 15. Judas 16. Marcus 17. Cassianus 18. Publius 19. Maximus I 20. Julian 21. Caius 22. Symmachus 23. Caius 24. Julian II 25. Capito 26. Maximus II 27. Antonius 28. Valius 29. Daleanus 30. Narcissus 31. Dius 32. Germanio 33. Gordius 34..Narcissus 35. Alexander 36.Mazabanes 37. Hymenacus 38. Zambodas 39. Hermon 40. Marcarius I 41. Maximus 42. Herenius 43. Hilary 44. John II 45. Praglius 46. Juvenal 47. Anastacius 48. Martyrius 49. Salutis 50. Elias 51. John III of Jerusalem consecrated David who traveled from Wales to Jerusalem52. David as Celtic Bishop of Mineva of Wales 1519, 53. Cynog 54. Teilo 55. Ceven 56. Morfall 57. Haerwneu 58. Elwaed 59. Gwrnwen 60. Llumverth 61. Gwrgwyst 62. Gwgan 63. Eineon 64. Clydawg 65. Elfod 66. Ethelman 67. Elane 68. Magelsgwyd 69. Made 70. Cadell 71. Sadwrnfen 72. Novis 73. Sulhaithnay 74. Idwall 75. Asser 76. Arthwael 77. Samson 78. Reubin 79. Rhydderch 80. Elwin 81. Morbiw 82. Llunwerth 83. Hubert 84. Enerius 85. Ivor 86. Morgeneu I 87. Nathan 88. Jenan 89. Arwystl 90. Morgeneu II 91. Ervin 92. Trahacarn 93. Joseph 94. Bleiddud 95. Salien 96. Abraham 97. Rhyddmarch 98. Wilfrid 99. Bernard 100. D. Fitzgerald 101. P. deLeia 102. G. Camb 103. G. deHenelawe 104. Jowerth 105. Gross 106. deCarew 107. T. Hech 108. D. Martin 109. H. Gower 110. J. Thorsby 111. R. Brian 112. F. Fastolfe 113. H. Doughton 114. J. Gilbert 115. G. deMona 116. Henry Chichele as Celtic Bishop of St. David's Wales, Archbishop of Canterbury 117. J. Stalford 118. J. Kemp 119. T. Bourchier 120. J. Morton 121. H. Dean 122. W. Wareham 123. Thomas Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury 124. R. Pole 125. M. Parker 126. E. Grindall 127. J. Whitgift 128. R. Bancroft 129. G. Abbott who co-consecrated with George Montaigne 130. William Laud, Bishop of St. David's, Archbishop of Canterbury. 131. W. Juxon 132. G. Sheldon 133. William Sancroft 134. T. White 135. G. Hickes 136. J. Gadderar 137. T. Rattray 138. W. Falconar 139. R. Kilgour Bishop of Aberdeen. 140. Samuel Seabury Bishop of Connecticut 141. T. J. Claggett 142. E. Bass 143. A. Jarvis 144. J. H. Hobart 145. H. Onderdonk 146. A. M. McCroskey 147. W. E. McClaren 1865 148. W. M. Brown 1884 149. W. Brothers 1925 150. William Crow 1943 151. W.W. Wallace 1945 and in 1979 he consecrated 152. J.W. Forrester 153. M.P. Zulinke 2011.

     

    Anglican  Episcopal Sucsession

     

    The Apostolic Succession of the Anglican Church was through the Roman Church from the arrival of St. Augustine in A.D. 597 until the Act of Supremacy A.D.1534 when King Henry VIII asserted control over the English Church. Thomas Cranmer was at that time Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of all England.

    Pope St. Nicholas I c.858       
    Formosus c.864  
    St. Plegmund c.891       
    Althelm c.909      
    Wulfhelm c.914   
    Odo c.927  
    St. Dunstan c.957
    St. Aelphege c.984        
    Elfric c.990
    Wulfstan c.1003  
    Ethelnoth c.1020 
    Eadsige c.1035
    Stigand c.1043    
    Siward c.1058     
    Bl Lanfranc c.1070       
    Thomas c.1070   
    St. Anselm c.1094        
    Richard de Belmeis c.1108     
    William of Corbeuil c.1123 
    Henry of Blois c.1129   
    St. Thomas Becket c.1162      
    Roger of Gloucester c.1164    
    Peter de Leia c.1176   
    Gllbert Glanvillle c.1185
    William of St. Mere L’eglise    c.1199        
    Walter de Gray c.1214  
    Walter Kirkham c.1249
    Henry c.1255      
    Anthony Beck c.1284   
    John of Halton c.1292  
    Roger Northborough     c.1322       
    William Wyvil c.1330   
    Ralph Stratford c.1340 
    William Edendon c.1346        
    Imon Sudbury c.1362   
    Thomas Brentingham    c.1370        
    Robert Braybrooke c.1382     
    Roger Walden c.1398   
    Henry Beaufort c.1398 
    Thomas Bourchier c.1435      
    John Morton c.1479     
    Richard Fitzjames c.1497       
    William Warham c.1502        
    John Longlands c.1521 
    Thomas Cranmer c.1533                   Archbishop of Canterbury.    

    Church of England        
    William Barlow c.1536 
    Matthew Parker c.1559
    Edmund Grindal c.1559
    John Whitgift c.1577    
    Richard Bancroft c.1597        
    George Abbot c.1609    
    George Montaigne c.1617      
    Bl William Laud c.1621
    Brian Duppa c.1638     
    Gilbert Sheldon c.1660 
    Henry Compton c.1674
    William Sancroft c.1678         
    Thomas White c.1685   
    George Hickes c.1693   
    James Gadderar c.1712
    Thomas Rattray c.1727
    William Falconar c.1741        
    Robert Kilgour c.1768                      Bishop of Aberdeen      
    Samuel Seabury c.1784                    First Bishop of The Protestant Episcopal Church        of America .T. J. Claggett c.1792     
    Edward Bass c.1797     
    Abraham Jarvis c.1797
    A.,V. Griswold c 1811
    J. H. Hopkins c.1832    
    G. D. Cummins c.1866 
    Charles E. Cheney c.1873      
    W. R. Nicholson c.1876
    A. S. Richardson c.1879        
    Leon Chechemian c.1890       
    Andrew Charles Albert McLagen c.1897   
    James Heard c.1922      
    William Bernard Crow c.1943

    W.W. Wallace 1945

    J.W. Forrester 1979

    Michael Zulinke 2011.

     

     

    Celtic Tables & Lines of Succession


    It is important to recognize that, prior to approximately the 11th century, the tables of succession primarily refer to the lineages of those who held specific offices within the Church. While we can be confident in the validity of the consecrations themselves, the precise details surrounding who consecrated whom—or, in some instances, the exact time and circumstances of those consecrations—remain uncertain. The process of succession within the Celtic tradition, rooted deeply in the spiritual and apostolic mission of figures like St. Patrick, the Apostle of Ireland, is revered for its sacred continuity. However, due to the passage of time and the lack of comprehensive records, some aspects of these sacred transitions remain shrouded in mystery, inviting us to trust in the spiritual integrity and grace that guided these holy orders.

     

     

    1) St. Patrick– consecrated 432

    2) (Seachnaill) St Secundinius - consecrated

    3) Sen-Phátraic - consecrated

    4) Benén mac Sescnén – consecrated 467

    5) Jarlaithe mac Treno – consecrated 481

    6) Cormac – consecrated 497 Called bishop and abbot

    7) Dubthach (elder) – consecrated 513 Called bishop

    8) Ailill (elder) – consecrated 526 Called bishop

    9) Ailill (younger) – consecrated 536 Called bishop

    10) Dubthach – consecrated Called abbot

    11) Fedelmid Find – consecrated Called abbot

    12) Carláen – consecrated 588 Called bishop

    13) Eochu – consecrated Called abbot

    14) Senach – consecrated Called abbot

    15) Mac Laisre – consecrated 623 Called abbot

    16) Tómméne MacRonan – consecrated 640  bishop

    17) Ségéne – consecrated 688 bishop

    18) Forannán – consecrated

    19) Fland Feblae mac Scandláin – consecrated abbot/bishop

    20) Suibne nepos Mruichessaich – consecrated 730 bishop

    21) Congusa – consecrated 732 Called bishop (also scribe)

    22) Célé Petair – consecrated

    23) Fer dá Chrích mac Suibni – consecrated

    24) Cú Dínaisc mac Conasaig – consecrated

    25) Dub dá Leithe I mac Sínaig – consecrated

    26) Fóendelach mac Móenaig – consecrated

    27) Airechtach ua Fáeláin – consecrated

    28) Fóendelach mac Móenaig – consecrated

    29) Gormgal mac Dindataig  – consecrated (abbot)

    30) Condmach mac Duib dá Leithe – consecrated (recognised as coarb in the Annals of Ulster in 804)

    31) Torbach mac Gormáin – consecrated

    32) Toicthech ua Tigernaig – consecrated

    33) Nuadu – consecrated 811

    34) Flandgus mac Loingsig – consecrated

    35) Artrí mac Conchobair – consecrated 818 Acted as abbot and Coarb

    36) Suibne mac Forandáin – consecrated Called Abbas

    37) Eógan Mainistrech mac Ainbthig – consecrated abbot

    38) Forindán mac Murgile – consecrated

    39) Diarmait ua Tigernáin – consecrated abbot

    40) Cathassach – consecrated

    41) Féthgno mac Nechtain – consecrated

    42) Máel Cobo mac Crundmaíl – consecrated

    43) Ainmere ua Fáeláin – consecrated

    44) Cathassach mac Robartaig  – consecrated Bishop

    45) Máel Brigte mac Tornáin  – consecrated Coarb

    46) Ioseph mac Fathaig – consecrated

    47) Máel Pátraic mac Máel Tuile – consecrated 862

    48) Fethgna – consecrated 875

    49) Cathassach mac Doilgén – consecrated 883

    50) Muiredach mac Fergussa – consecrated

    51) Dub dá Leithe II mac Cellaig – consecrated Coarb

    52) Muirecén mac Ciaracáin – consecrated Coarb

    53) Máel Muire mac Eochada – consecrated

    54) Amalgaid mac Máel Muire – consecrated

    55) Dub dá Leithe III Máel Muire – consecrated

    56) Cummascach Ua hErodáin – consecrated

    57) Máel Ísu mac Amalgada – consecrated

    58) Domnall mac Amalgada – consecrated

    59) Cellach of Armagh consecrated bishop of Armagh on 23 September 1105

    60) Muirchertach mac Domnall – consecrated

    61) Mael mac Áeda meic Máel Ísu(Celsus) – consecrated 1105Ua

    62) Morgair [Malachais] – consecrated 1132

    63) Gilla Meic Liac mac Diarmata meic Ruaidri [Gelasius] – consecrated 1137

    64) Conchobar O Conchaille [Concors] – consecrated 1174

    65) Gille in Coimhedh O Caran [Gilbertus] – consecrated 1175

    66) Tomaltach O Conchobair [Thomas] – consecrated 1180

    67) Mael Isu Ua Cerbaill [Malachias] – consecrated 1184

    68) Echdonn mac Gilla Uidir [Eugenius] – consecrated 1202

    69) Lucas Neterville – consecrated 1217

    70) Donatus O Fidabra – consecrated 1227

    71) Albert Suebeer of Cologne – consecrated 1240

    72) Reginald – consecrated 1247

    73) Abraham O’Conallain – consecrated 1258

    74) Mael Patraic O Scannail – consecrated 1261

    75) Nicol Mac Mael Isu – consecrated 1270

    76) Michael MacLochlainn – consecrated 1303

    77) Dionysius – consecrated 1304

    78) John Taaffe – consecrated 1306

    79) Walter Jorz – consecrated 1307

    80) Roland Jorz – consecrated 1311

    81) Stephen Segrave – consecrated 1324

    82) David Mag Oireachtaigh – consecrated 1334

    83) Richard FitzRalph – consecrated 1347

    84) Milo Sweetman – consecrated 1362

    85) John Colton – consecrated 1383

    86) Nicholas Fleming – consecrated 1404

    87) John Swayne – consecrated 1418

    88) John Prene – consecrated 1439

    89) John Mey – consecrated 1444

    90) John Bole [Bull] – consecrated 1457

    91) John Foxhalls or Foxholes – consecrated 1471

    92) Edmund Connesburgh – consecrated 1475

    93) Ottaviano Spinelli [de Palatio] – consecrated 1480

    94) John Kite – consecrated 1513

    95) George Cromer – consecrated 1521

    96) George Dowdall – consecrated 1543

    97) Hugh Goodacre – consecrated 1552

    98) Donat MacTeague – consecrated 1560

    99) Adam Loftus – consecrated 1563

    100) Thomas Lancaster – consecrated 1568

    101) John Long – consecrated 1584

    102) John Garvey – consecrated 1589

    103) Henry Ussher – consecrated 1595

    104) Christopher Hampton – consecrated 1613

    105) George Montaigne – consecrated 1616

    106) William Laud – consecrated 1633 Archbishop of Canterbury

    107) William Juxon – consecrated 1660

    108) Gilbert Sheldon – consecrated October 28, 1660

    109) William Sancroft – consecrated January 27, 1678

    110) Thomas White – consecrated 1685

    111) George Hickes – consecrated 1693

    112) James Gadderar – consecrated 1712

    113) Thomas Rattray – consecrated June 4, 1727

    114) William Falconar – consecrated Sept 10, 1741

    115) Robert Kilgour – consecrated September 21, 1768

    116) Samuel Seabury – consecrated November 14, 1784

    117) Thomas John Claggett – consecrated September 17, 1792

    118) Edward Bass - consecrated May 7, 1797

    119) Abraham Jarvis - consecrated October 18, 1797

    120) Alexander Viets Griswold - consecrated May 29, 1811

    121) John Henry Hopkins - consecrated October 31, 1832

    122) George D. Cummins - consecrated November 15, 1866

    123) Charles Edward Cheney - consecrated December 14, 1873

    124) William Rufus Nicholson - consecrated February 24, 1876

    125) Alfred Spenser Richardson - consecrated June 22, 1879

    126) Leon Chechemian - consecrated May 4, 1890

    127) Andrew Charles Albert McLagen - consecrated November 2, 1897

    128) James Heard - consecrated June 4, 1922

    129) William Bernard Crow - consecrated June 13, 1943

    130)W.W. Wallace 1945

    131)J.W. Forrester 1979

    132)Michael Zulinke 2011.

     

     

    also

    from Donagh, Archbishop of Dublin

    1) Dúnán (also known as Donat, Donagh or Donatus) Consecrated in circa 1028

    (2) Gilla Pátraic (also known as Patricius) Consecrated in 1074

    (3) Donngus Ua hAingliu (also recorded as Donngus Ua hAingliu and Donat O'Haingly)Consecrated 1085

    (4) Samuel Ua hAingliu consecrated 27 April 1096

    (5) Gréne (also known as Gregorius) Consecrated bishop 2 October 1121

    (6) Lorcán Ua Tuathail (St Laurence O'Toole) consecrated archbishop in 1162

    (7) John Comyn (also known as John Cumin) consecrated 21 March 1181

    (8) William of S. Mere L’Eglise consecrated on May 23, 1199

    (9) Walter de Gray consecrated on October 5, 1214

    (10) Walter Kirkham consecrated on December 5, 1249

    (11) Henry  consecrated on February 7, 1255

    (12) Anthony Beck consecrated on January 9, 1284

    (13) John of Halton consecrated on September 14, 1292

    (14) Roger Northborough consecrated on June 27, 1322

    (15) Robert Wyvil consecrated on July 15, 1330

    (16) Ralph Stratford consecrated on March 12, 1340

    (17) William Edendon consecrated on May 15, 1346

    (18) Simon Sudbury consecrated on March 20, 1362

    (19) Thomas Brentingham consecrated on May 12, 1370

    (20) Robert Braybrooke consecrated on January 5, 1382

    (21) Roger Walden consecrated on February 3, 1398

    (22) Henry Beaufort consecrated on July 14, 1398

    (23) Thomas Bourchier consecrated on May 15, 1435

    (24) John Morton Consecrated on January 31, 1479

    (25) Richard FitzJames consecrated on May 21, 1497

    (26) William Warham consecrated on September 25, 1502

    (27) John Longlands consecrated on May 15, 1521

    (28) Thomas Cranmer consecrated on March 30, 1533

    (29) William Barlow consecrated on June 1536

    (30) Matthew Parker consecrated December 17(19), 1559

    (31) Edmund Grindall consecrated December 21,1559

    (32) John Whitgift consecrated April 21, 1577

    (33) Richard Bancroft consecrated on May 8, 1597

    (34) George Abbott consecrated December 3, 1609

    (35) George Montaigne consecrated on December 14, 1617

    (36) William Laud consecrated Bishop of St. David’s on November 18, 1621

    (37) Brian Duppa consecrated Bishop of Chichester on June 17, 1638

    (38) Gilbert Sheldon consecrated Bishop of London on October 28, 1660

    (39) Henry Compton consecrated on December 6, 1674

    (40) William Sancroft consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury on January 27, 1678

    (41) Thomas White consecrated Bishop of Peterborough on October 25, 1685

    (42) George Hickes consecrated Bishop of Thetford Febuary 21, 1693

    (43) James Gadderar consecrated Bishop at Large on Febuary 24, 1712

    (44) Thomas Rattray consecrated on June 24, 1727

    (45) William Falconar consecrated Bishop of Caithness on Sept 10, 1741

    (46) Robert Kilgour consecrated on September 21, 1768

    (47) Samuel Seabury consecrated at Aberdeen on November 14, 1784

    (48) Thomas John Claggett consecrated on September 17, 1792

    (49) Edward Bass consecrated on May 7, 1797

    (50) Abraham Jarvis consecrated on October 18, 1797

    A.,V. Griswold c 1811

    1. H. Hopkins c.1832
    2. D. Cummins c.1866

    Charles E. Cheney c.1873     

    1. R. Nicholson c.1876
    2. S. Richardson c.1879

    Leon Chechemian c.1890      

    Andrew Charles Albert McLagen c.1897  

    James Heard c.1922     

    William Bernard Crow c.1943

    W.W. Wallace 1945 

    J.W. Forrester 1979

    Michael Zulinke 2011

     

    Canterbury Line

    1   597 Augustine

    2   604 Laurentius

    3   619 Mellitus

    4   624 Justus

    5   627 Honorius

    6   655 Deusdedit

    7   668 Theodore

    8   693 Berhtwald

    9   731 Tatwine

    10  735 Nothelm

    11  740 Cuthbert

    12  761 Bregowine

    13  765 Jaenbert

    14  793 Ethelhard

    15  805 Wulfred

    16  832 Feologeld

    17  833 Ceolnoth

    18  870 Ethelred

    19  890 Plegmund

    20  914 Athelm

    21  923 Wulfhelm

    22  942 Oda

    23  959 Aelfsige

    24  959 Brithelm

    25  960 Dunstan

    26  988 Ethelgar

    27  990 Sigeric

    28  995 Aelfric

    29  1005 Alphege

    30  1013 Lyfing

    31  1020 Ethelnoth

    32  1038 Eadsige

    33  1051 Robert of Jumieges

    34  1052 Stigand

    35  1070 Lanfranc

    36  1093 Anselm

    37  1114  Ralph d'Escures

    38  112? William de Corbeil

    39  1139 Theobald

    40  1162  Thomas a Becket

    41  1174 Richard (of Dover)

    4   1184 Baldwin

    43  1193 Hubert Walter

    44  1207 Stephen Langton

    45  1229 Richard le Grant

    46  1234 Edmund of Abingdon

    47  1245 Boniface of Savoy

    48  1273 Robert Kilwardby

    49  1279 John Peckham

    50  1294 Robert Winchelsey

    51  1313 Walter Reynolds

    52  1328 Simon Meopham

    53  1333 John de Stratford

    54  1349 Simon Islip

    55  1349 Thomas Bradwardine

    56  1366 Simon Langham

    57  1368 William Whittlesey

    58  1375 Simon Sudbury

    59  1381  William Courtenay

    60  1396 Thomas Arundel

    61  1398 Roger Walden

        1399 Thomas Arundel (restored)

    62  1414 Henry Chichele

    63  1443 John Stafford

    64  1452 John Kempe

    65  1454 Thomas Bourchier

    66  1486 John Morton

    67  1501 Henry Deane

    68  1503 William Warham

    69  1533 Thomas Cranmer

    70  1556 Reginald Pole

    71  1559 Matthew Parker

    72  1576 Edmund Grindal

    73  1583 John Whitgift

    74  1604 Richard Bancroft

    75  1611 George Abbot

    76  1633 William Laud

    77  1660 William Juxon

    78  1663 Gilbert Sheldon

    79  1678 William Sancroft

     

     Thomas White consecrated Bishop of Peterborough on October 25, 1685

     George Hickes consecrated Bishop of Thetford Febuary 21, 1693

    James Gadderar consecrated Bishop at Large on Febuary 24, 1712

     Thomas Rattray consecrated on June 24, 1727

     William Falconar consecrated Bishop of Caithness on Sept 10, 1741

     Robert Kilgour consecrated on September 21, 1768

     Samuel Seabury consecrated at Aberdeen on November 14, 1784

     Thomas John Claggett consecrated on September 17, 1792

     Edward Bass consecrated on May 7, 1797

     Abraham Jarvis consecrated on October 18, 1797

    A.,V. Griswold c 1811

    1. H. Hopkins c.1832
    2. D. Cummins c.1866

    Charles E. Cheney c.1873     

    1. R. Nicholson c.1876
    2. S. Richardson c.1879

    Leon Chechemian c.1890      

    Andrew Charles Albert McLagen c.1897  

    James Heard c.1922     

    William Bernard Crow c.1943

     W.W. Wallace 1945 

     J.W. Forrester 1979

    Michael Zulinke 2011.

     

     

     

       Anglican Succession through the Communion of Anglican Churches

    Protestant Episcopal Church USA

    Robert Kilgour, after 1789 a non-juring Bishop, consecrated Samuel Seabury on November 14, 1784

    Seabury consecrated Thomas John Claggett, Bishop of Maryland on September 17, 1792

    Claggatt consecrated Edward Bass, Bishop of Massachusetts on May 7, 1797

    Bass consecrated Abraham Jarvis, Bishop of Connecticut on October 18, 1797

    Jarvis consecrated John Henry Hobart, Bishop Coadjutor of New York on May 29, 1811

    Hobart consecrated Henry Ustick Onderdonk, Bishop of Pennsylvania on October 25, 1827

    Ondedonk consecrated Allan M. McCroskey, Bishop of Michigan on July 7, 1836

    McCoskey consecrated William Edward McClaren, Bishop of Chicago on December 8, 1875

    McClaren consecrated William Montgomery Brown, Bishop of Arkansas on June 24, 1898

      Brown consecrated Wallace David de Ortega Maxey on January 2, 1927

     

    Maxey consecrated sub conditione Archbishop Leofric of Suthonia on January 2, 1927

     

    Leofric consecrated sub conditione Mar. Gegorious I, Patriarch of Glastonbury in 1945

     

    Mar. Georgius I consecrated Mar. Johannes, Archbishop of Karim on May 27, 1950

     

    Mar. Johannes consecrated Philip Stuart Singer in 1952

     

    Singer consecrated Ignatius Carolus, Archbishop of Danum of the Old Holy Catholic Church on November 14, 1954

     

    Carolus consecrated Andre Barbeau, Archbishop, Primate of the Province of Quebec of the Old Holy catholic Church on December 21, 1969

     

    Barbeau, Andre Lettellier and Jean Marie Breault consecrated Walter G. Allard on October 22, 1983

     

    Allard, James F. Mondok and Ray Rensville consecrated Michael F. Hembre in Concord, Michigan on January 17, 1988

     

    Hembre, James F. Mondok and Walter C. Allard consecrated Donald C. Locke in Euclid, Ohio on February 14, 1988

     

    Locke consecrated Robert James Cash on November 12, 1989

     

    Cash, Max Broussard and William Oldring consecrated George T Smith on November 7, 1992

     

    Smith, Max Broussard and Willam Oldring consecrated Gregory A. Francisco on November 12, 1994

     

    Francisco, Max Broussard and George T. Smith consecrated Peter William Riola on November 4, 1995 to be Auxiliary Bishop in the Provincial Diocese of the Holy Spirit of the United Catholic Church

     

    ++ John D. Keliher, ++ Peter Riola, together with letters of consent from + Jay Bunting, + T.J. Gentry, + Douglas Halverson and +John of India consecrated + John L. Simons  whom in 2013 incardinated +Michael Zulinke to HOB  and  Elected to Arch Bishop 2017

     

     

    Anglican Succession –Church of England

    Anglican-Episcopal Churches

    +Samuel Seabury’s consecration at the hands of non-juring Bishops in Scotland made him the unintended heir of Archbishop William Laud and his allegiance to those Bishops, remnant of those deposed for refusing to support William of Orange rather than James II, caused the fledgling Protestant Episcopal Church USA to modify the theological framework of its Book of Common Prayer to accommodate Seabury.. However, the United Kingdom has been host to a number of curious situations in which Apostolic Succession was validly conveyed with unintended consequences.

     

    The Holy See developed a plan for an Uniate movement in England which ultimately failed to develop the intended Roman Catholic English Church but it did create three canonical bishops named Lees, Mossman and Seecombe to whom Bishop Stevens could trace his consecration. Stevens, in collaboration with the son in law of the Archbishop of Dublin, Leon Chechemain, an Armenian Bishop, and Alfred Richardson, a Reformed Episcopal Church Bishop, created a number of Bishops in an attempt to proselytize nominally Roman Catholic parts of Europe. Richardson, of course, derived his Apostolic orders through the Bishops who withdrew from the Episcopal Church USA in protest against the Oxford Movement.

     

    During the reign of James I, Marco-Antonio Dominis, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Spaiato and Primate of Damatia, became a member of, and bishop in, the Church of England. On December 14, 1617, he participated in the consecration of George Monteigne.

    Monteigne consecrated William Laud, later Archbishop of Canterbury, on November 18, 1621.

    Laud consecrated Brian Duppa on June 16, 1638

    Duppa consecrated Gilbert Sheldon on October 18, 1660

    Sheldon consecrated Henry Compton on December 6, 1674

    Compton consecrated William Sancraft, later Archbishop of Canterbury, on January 27, 1677

    Sancraft consecrated Thomas White on October 25, 1685

    White consecrated George Hickes on February 24, 1685

    Hickes consecrated James Gadderar on February 24, 1712

    Gadderar consecrated Thomas Rattray, Bishop of Dunkeld, on June 4, 1727, later Bishop Primus of Scotland

    Rattray consecrated William Falconar, date uncertain

    Falconar consecrated Robert Kilgour on September 28, 1768; Kilgour, subsequent to 1689, was deposed for failing to swear allegiance to William III and became a non-juring Bishop in Scotland

    Kilgour consecrated Samuel Seabury on November 14, 1784 as Bishop of Connecticut

    Seabury consecrated Thomas John Claggett on September 17, 1792 as Bishop of Maryland

    Claggett consecrated Edward Bass on May 7, 1797 as Bishop of Massachusetts

    Bass consecrated Abraham Jarvis on October 17, 1797 as Bishop of Connecticut

    Jarvis consecrated A. V. Criswold on May 29, 1811 as Bishop of the Eastern Diocese

    Criswold consecrated John Henry Hopkins on October 31, 1832 as Bishop of Vermont

    Hopkins consecrated C. D. Cummins in November of 1866 as Assistant Bishop of Kentucky

    Cummins consecrated Charles Edward Cheney on December 14, 1873 as a Bishop in the Reformed Episcopal Church

    Cheney consecrated William Rufus Nicholson on February 24, 1879

    Nicholson consecrated Alfred Spencer Richardson on June 22, 1879

    Richardson consecrated Leon Chechemain on May 4, 1890

    Chechemain consecrated Andrew Charles Albert McLaglen on November 2, 1897

    McLaglen consecrated Herbert James Monzani-Herd on June 4, 1922

    Monzani-Herd consecrated William Bernard Crow on June 13, 1943

    Crow consecrated Hugh George de Willmont Newman on April 10, 1944

    Newman consecrated Wallace David de Ortega Maxey on June 6, 1946

    Maxey consecrated C. David Luther on September 25, 1977

    Luther consecrated Patrick Michael Richard Cronin on June 4, 1988

    Cronin consecrated David Lionel Jones on February 26, 1989

    Jones consecrated William J. Oldring on November 17, 1991

    Oldring consecrated George T. Smith on November 7 1992

    Smith consecrated Gregory A. Francisco on November 12, 1994

    Francisco consecrated Peter William Riola on November 4, 1995

    ++ John D. Keliher, ++ Peter Riola, together with letters of consent from + Jay Bunting, + T.J. Gentry, + Douglas Halverson and +John of India consecrated + John L. Simons  whom in 2013 incardinated +Michael Zulinke to HOB  and  Elected to Arch Bishop 2017

     

     

     

    The Vicariate of the Holy Spirit of United Catholic Church

    Which Subsequently Became

    The Province of St. Alcuin

    The Communion of Anglican Churches

    The United Catholic Church derived its orders from an interesting blend of sources: the Old Catholic Church of Utrecht, The Old Catholic Church of Poland ( Polish National Catholic Church), the Coptic (Orthodox) Church, the Greek Orthodox Patriarchal See of Antioch, the Patriarchate of Constantinople, and the Uniate Greek Melkhite Church of Antioch.

     

    Francisco, Broussard, Smith, with the assent of Riola, consecrated Jay Bunting in 1996.

     

    + Peter W. Riola consecrated + Dan Thornhill as Bishop – Abbot Maumell, Arkansas April 12, 1997

     

    + Peter W. Riola consecrated + David Sigvertsen Bishop-Abbot Minneapolis, Minnesota on August 15, 1997

     

    + Peter Riola and + Pat McKay consecrated + Alfred Beach Abbot with Apostolic Order Glendale, Arizona; on July 18, 1998

     

    + Peter Riola and + Jacob Perna consecrated + John Dee Czaplewiski, Bishop, Vicariate of the Holy Spirit, Province of Christ the Good Shepherd on June 28, 1997

     

    Francisco, Broussard, Smith, with the assent of Riola, consecrated Jay Bunting on December 6, 2003.

     

    ++ Max Broussard, + George T. Smith, + Randy DeHart, + Peter Riola, and + James Young consecrated Josep Rossello on December 6, 2003; + John Dee Czaplewiski added his Apostolic Blessing on June 15, 2004 and + Douglas Halverson and + Jay Bunting added their Apostolic Blessing on June 19, 2004

     

    + Peter Riola, +John Dee Czaplewiski, + James Young, together with letters of consent from + Jay Bunting, consecrated + Douglas Halverson, Order of St. Benedict, as Bishop Ordinary and Abbot, in Coon River, Minnesota on June 19, 2004

     

    ++ Max Broussard, ++ James Meola, ++ Peter W. Riola, + Douglas Halverson, + Jay Bunting, + James Young, + Charles Erskine consecrated Jose Aparecido Peracoli Moreno on December 11, 2004

     

    ++ Peter W. Riola, ++ James Meola, + Jay Bunting and James Young consecrated Thomas J. Gentry for the Diocese of St. Paul on January 9, 2005

     

    ++ Peter W. Riola, + David Sigversten, John Dee Czaplewiski, + Douglas Halverson, together with letters of consent from + Thomas J. Gentry, + Jay Bunting , and + James Young consecrated + John D. Keliher for the Diocese of the Holy Trinity (Washington State and the Pacific Northwest) on September 25, 2005

     

    ++ John D. Keliher, ++ Peter Riola, together with letters of consent from + Jay Bunting, + T.J. Gentry, + Douglas Halverson and +John of India consecrated + John L. Simons  whom in 2013 incardinated +Michael Zulinke to HOB  and  Elected to Arch Bishop 2017

     

     

     

    Roman Catholic Succession

    Roman Catholic – Mexico

    In the 1890’s, Msgr Eduardo Sanchez Camecho, Bishop of Tamaulipas, consecrated Msgr. Benedict Donkin, Bishop of the Holy Cross, who, in 1905, in London, England, consecrated others to the episcopate, from whom some of the present clergy can trace their orders in line.

     

    Roman Catholic – Brazil

    Dom Carlos Duarte Costa, who served as the Roman Catholic Bishop of Sao Paulo, Brazil, became the Patriarch of the Brazilian Apostolic Church. + Duarte traced his orders through twenty Cardinals and four Popes and he passed his legacy to Bishops Locke and Cronin, who subsequently appear in these lists.

     

     

    + Scipion Cardinal Rebiba consecrated + Santorio at St. Peter’s in Rome on March 12, 1566

     

    +Santorio, Archbishop of St. Severine, as Cardinal, consecrated + Bernerio at St. Peter’s in Rome on September 7, 1586

     

    + Bernerio, as a Cardinal, consecrated + Sanvitale as Archbishop of Bari on April 4, 1604

     

    + Sanvitale, as Cardinal, consecrated + Ludovisi on May 2, 1621

     

    + Ludovisi, as Cardinal, consecrated + Caetani at St. Peter’s in Rome on June 12, 1622

     

    + Caetani, as Cardinal, consecrated + Carpegna at St. Peter’s in Rome on October 7, 1630

     

    + Carpegna, as Cardinal consecrated + Altieri at St. Peter’s in Rome on May 2, 1666

     

    + Altieri, as Cardinal, consecrated + Orsini at St. Peter’s at st. Peter’s in Rome on February 3, 1675

     

    + Orsini, as Pope Benedict XIII, consecrated + Lambertini at St. Peter’s in Rome on

    July 16, 1723

     

    + Lambertini, as Pope Benedict XIV, consecrated + Rezzonico at St. Peter’s in Rome on March 19, 1743

     

    + Rezzonico, as Pope Clement XIII, consecrated + Giraud at St. Peter’s in Rome on April 15, 1767

     

    + Giraud, as Cardinal, consecrated + Mattei at St. Peter’s in Rome on February 23, 1977

     

    + Mattei, as Cardinal consecrated + Galeffi at St. Peter’s on September 12, 1789

     

    + Galeffi, as Cardinal, consecrated + Fransoni at St. Peter’s in Rome on December 8, 1822

     

    + Fransoni, as Cardinal consecrated + Sacconi at St. Peter’s on June 8, 1851

     

    + Sacconi, a Cardinal, consecrated + Pecci at St. Peter’s in Rome on June 30, 1851

     

    + Pecci as Pope Leo XIII consebcrated + Rampolla Del Tindaro at St. Peter’s in Rome on December 8, 1882

     

    + Del Tindaro, as Cardinal and Secretary of State, consecrated + Joaquin Arcoverde de Albequerque-Cavalcanti at St. Peter’s on October 26, 1890

     

    + Albequerque-Cavalcanti, as Cardinal consecrated + Sebastian Lema de Silveria Cintra as Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro at St. Peter’s in Rome on June 4, 1911

     

    + de Silveria Cintra, as Cardinal, consecrated + Carlos Duarte Costa on December 8, 1924

     

    + Duarte Costa withdrew from communion with the Holy See on July 6, 1945 and founded the Brazilian National Catholic Church which was also known as the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church. . As Primate, he consecrated + Dom Salomon Ferrez for the Brazilian National Catholic Church on May 3, 1948. Subsequently, + Duarte Costa consecrated + Dom Luis Fernando Castillo Mendez

     

    + Dom Salomon Ferrez returned to communion with the Holy See under Pope John XXIII who assigned him titular Bishop of the see of Eleuterna and + Ferrez participated in Vatican II . Pope Paul VI appointed him Bishop Coadjutor Archbishop of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Before + Ferrez returned to Rome, as a Bishop of the Brazilian National Catholic Church he consecrated + Manuel Ceja Laranjeira who co founded the Patriarchate of the Independent Church of Brazil.

     

    + Laranjeira consecrated + Benedito Pereira Lima on August 15, 1965

     

    + Lima consecrated + Dom Jose M. Machado on August 1, 1966

     

    + Machado consecrated + Dom Oscar Oswaldo Cairoli Fernandez on December 2, 1967

     

    + Cairoli Fernadez consecrated + Michael Staffiero on April 19, 1973

     

    + Staffiero consecrated + Rainier Laufers in November 1976 for Canada

     

    + Laufers consecrated + C. R. McCarthy on April 30, 1977

     

    + McCarthy consecrated + C. David Luther on September 25, 1977

     

    + Luther, and + Dom Luis Fernando Castillo Mendez, Patriarch of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church consecrated + Patrick Michael Richard Cronin on June 4, 1988

     

    + Cronin consecrated David Lionel Jones as Presiding Bishop of the Unitred American Orthodox Catholic Church on February 26, 1989

     

    + Jones consecrated + William J. Oldring as the Bishop of the Diocese of North Florida for the United Catholic Church on November 17, 1991

     

    + Oldring consecrated + George T. Smith as Provincial of the Diocese of Christ the King for the United catholic Church on November 7, 1992

     

    + Smith consecrated + Gregory A. Francisco as Provincial of the Diocese of the Holy Spirit for the United catholic Chuirch on November 12, 1994

     

    + Francisco consecrated + Peter William Riola as Auxiliary for the Diocese of the Holy spirit for the United Catholic Church on November 4, 1995

     

    ++ John D. Keliher, ++ Peter Riola, together with letters of consent from + Jay Bunting, + T.J. Gentry, + Douglas Halverson and +John of India consecrated + John L. Simons  whom in 2013 incardinated +Michael Zulinke to HOB  and  Elected to Arch Bishop 2017

     

     

     

    Russian Orthodox of Moscow Succession

    Orthodox Church – Russian Orthodox Orthodox Church of Moscow

    Early in the history of the Christian Church five patriarchates emerged: Constantinople, Antioch, Alexandria, Jerusalem and Rome. Constantinople established the Moscow Patriarchate in order serve the Slavic people and the Scythian Churches. In turn, at a much later date, the Patriarch of Moscow created the exachate for the United States and Canada. The Russian Orthodox lines are derived from American Orthodox Catholic Church which was founded by Archbishop Aftimod Ofiesh as authorized by +Patriarch Tikon of Moscow and through the exarchate headed by + Tikon of the Russian Orthodox Church in America. In turn these trace their Apostolic Succession to Macarius of Moscow, and others.

     

    As World War I came to its end on the Eastern Front, emerges fled to the East and the West to escape the Russian Civil War between the White Armies and the Red Armies. Attempting to maintain stability in the midst of chaos and provide ministry for its Orthodox followers wherever they might be. Russian Orthodox Church Prelates Evdokim Merschersky, + Nemolosky and +Dzubai consecrated Aftimios Ofiesh on April 30, 1917

     

    Ofiesh, +Beshara and + Zuk consecrated William Albert Nichols who took the name Ignatius, on September 27, 1932

     

    Nichols and + Raines consecrated George Winslow Plummer on May 8, 1934

     

    Plummer and + Nichols consecrated Theodatus Stanislaus Witowski (De Witow) on November 29, 1936

     

    Witowski and + Joachim Souris consecrated Walter M. Propheta on October 3, 1964

     

    Propheta and Peter A. Zurawetzky consecrated Uladslau Ryzy-Ryski on September 20, 1965

     

    Ryzy-Ryski consecrated Emigidius J. Ryzy in 1976

     

    Ryzy consecrated Robert James Cash who took the name Ignatius on June 7, 1986

     

    Cash, + Broussard, + Turnage and + Cronin consecrated David Lionel Jones on February 26, 1989

     

    Jones, +Broussard and + Justin Foster consecrated William J. Oldring on November 17, 1991

     

    Oldring, +Broussard and + Cash consecrated George T. Smith on November 7, 1992

     

    Smith, + Broussard and + Oldring consecrated Gregory A. Francisco on November 4, 1994

     

    Francisco, + Broussard and + Smith consecrated Peter William Riota on November 4, 1995

     

    ++ John D. Keliher, ++ Peter Riola, together with letters of consent from + Jay Bunting, + T.J. Gentry, + Douglas Halverson and +John of India consecrated + John L. Simons  whom in 2013 incardinated +Michael Zulinke to HOB  and  Elected to Arch Bishop 2017

     

    Syrio Chaldean Succession

    Two Centuries before the rise of Islam prevented the Patriarch of Constantinople from exercising total control over the scattered Orthodox communities of faith in the Levant, separatists had established themselves claiming the ancient privileges derived from the Patriarch of Antioch. The Nestorian controversy added a further dimension since, at a safe distance from Constantinople, the Emperor and the Patriarch, Nestorius was viewed as a hero and his theology was adopted throughout the Persian Empire. Theoretically, the Patriarch of this branch of Orthodoxy had his See in Antioch, he was generally styled as the Bishop of Babylon and he frequently held court in Damascus. To compound the historical confusion, this form of Orthodoxy reached India where, in time, it became the Malabar Rite. Parts of this Church were occasionally affiliated with Rome, parts were accepted as Orthodox by Constantinople and in and for itself it metamorphosed into several distinct branches. To begin with Mar Shimum XVIII Reuben, Patriarch of Seleucia-Ctesiphon is an admittedly arbitrary beginning point for tracing is appearance in the West, however, most lines of subsequent Apostolic Succession trace to this source.

     

    Mar Shimun XVIII Reuben consecrated Mar Abdeso Antonios as Metropolitan of Malabar on December 17, 1862

     

    Mar Abdeso Antonios consecrated Mar Basilius as Metropolitan of India, Ceylon, Mylapore, Socotara and Messina on July 24, 1899

     

    Mar Basilius consecrated Ulric Vernon Herford as Bishop of Mercia and Middlesex on November 30, 1902

     

    Herford consecrated Mar Paulus, Bishop of Kent on February 28, 1925

     

    Mar Paulus consecrated Mar Hedley, Bishop of Siluria on October 18, 1931

     

    Mar Headly consecrated Hugh George de Willmott Newman on May 20, 1945

     

    Newman consecrated Wallace David de Ortega Maxey on June 6, 1946

     

    Maxey consecrated C. David Luther on September 25, 1977

     

    Luther consecrated Patrick Michael Richard Cronin on June 4, 1988

     

    Cronin consecrated David Lionel Jones Presiding Bishop of the United American Orthodox Catholic Church on February 26, 1989

     

    Jones consecrated William J, Oldring for the Diocese of North Florida of the united Catholic Church on November 17, 1991

     

    Oldring consecrated George T. Smith for the Provincial Diocese of Christ the King of the United Catholic Church on November 7, 1992

     

    Smith consecrated Gregory A. Francisco for the Provincial Diocese of the Holy Spirit of the United Catholic Church on November 12, 1994

     

    Francisco consecrated Peter William Riola as Auxiliary to the Provincial of the Diocese of the Holy Spirit of the United Catholic Church on November 4, 1995

     

    ++ John D. Keliher, ++ Peter Riola, together with letters of consent from + Jay Bunting, + T.J. Gentry, + Douglas Halverson and +John of India consecrated + John L. Simons  whom in 2013 incardinated +Michael Zulinke to HOB  and  Elected to Arch Bishop 2017

     

     

    Old Catholic Church – Europe

    The Old Catholic Church of Utrecht is often thought to include several essentially autonomous Roman Catholic diocese in Northern Germany and the Lowlands and the Polish National Catholic Church, all of whom left the Roman Catholic Church after Vatican I. In general, the term Old Catholic, may be applied as a generic description of all of these despite their singular and separate governance. However, when the Old Catholic movement reached the United States only the Polish National Catholic Church maintained it direct links to the European source of its Apostolic Succession and governance. The United Catholic Church derived part of its Apostolic Succession from the Polish National Catholic Church. In consequence, then, some lineage within the Communion of Episcopal Churches is derived from one or more of these sources.

     

    Cardinal Antonio Barerini, Archbishop of Rheims, consecrated Charles Maurice LeTellier in the Church of the Sorbonne, Paris in 1657. LeTellier became Barerini’s successor as Archbishop of Rheims.

     

    LeTellier consecrated James Benigne Bissuet (The Illustrious) (The Eagle of Meaux) as Bishop of Condon on November 12, 1668. Pope Clement XI translated Bissuet from Condon to the See of Meaux on September 21, 1670

     

    Bissuet consecrated James Goyan de Matignon, Bishop of Condon in 1671

     

    Matignon, at the direction of Pope Clement XI, consecrated Dominic of Varlet as Bishop of Ascalon (in Partibus) and as Bishop Coadjutor to the Bishop of Babylon in the Kingdom of Persia.. This was accomplished in Paris in 1693

     

    Dominic of Varlet consecrated Peter John Meindaerts as Bishop of Utrecht on February 12, 1739, at the request of the Cathedral Chapter of Utrecht. Meindaerts had previously been ordained in Ireland by + Luke Fagen, Bishop of Meath, who was later Archbishop of Dublin. Fagen’s intent was to strengthen the Church in the Netherlands that had been founded by St. Willibrod and had long enjoyed the privilege of electing its own to the local episcopate.

     

    Meindaerts consecrated John Van Spitout as Bishop of Haarlem on October 17, 1739.

     

    Van Spitout consecrated Walter Michael van Niewenbuizen as Archbishop of Utrecht on July 11, 1745.

     

    Van Niewenbuizen consecrated John James van Rhijn to be his successor as Archbishop of Utrecht on February 7, 1768

     

    Van Rhijn consecrated Gisbert de Jong as Bishop of Deventor on July 5, 1797

     

    De Jong consecrated Willibrod van Os as Archbishop of Utrecht on November 7, 1805

     

    Van Os consecrated Jon Bon as Bishop of Haarlem on April 24, 1814

     

    Bon consecrated John van Santen as bishop of Utrecht on April 22, 1819

     

    van Santen consecrated Herman Heykamp as Bishop of Deventor on June 14, 1825

     

    Heykamp consecrated Casparus Johannes Rinkel as the Bishop of Haarlem on July 17, 1854. Rinkel withdrew from communion with the Holy See following Vatican I and became the Old Catholic Bishop of Haarlem.

     

    Rinkel consecrated Gerald Gul as Archbishop of Utrecht on May 11, 1892

     

    Gul consecrated Arnold Harris Matthew as Old Catholic Bishop of Great Britain on April 28, 1913

     

    Matthew consecrated Prince de Landes Berghes on June 29, 108

     

    de Landes Berghes consecrated Carmel Henry Carfora on October 4, 1916

     

    Carfora consecrated Frederick Littler Pyman on August 15, 1943

     

    Pyman consecrated John L. Schaffer on June 9, 1972

     

    Schaffer consecrated M. Joseph Turnage on May 4, 1982

     

    Turnage consecrated Max Broussard as Presiding bishop of the United Catholic Church on June 14, 1988

     

    ++ Max Broussard, ++ James Meola, ++ Peter W. Riola, + Douglas Halverson, + Jay Bunting, + James Young, + Charles Erskine consecrated Jose Aparecido Peracoli Moreno on December 11, 2004

     

    ++ Peter W. Riola, ++ James Meola, + Jay Bunting and James Young consecrated Thomas J. Gentry for the Diocese of St. Paul on January 9, 2005

     

    ++ Peter W. Riola, + David Sigversten, John Dee Czaplewiski, + Douglas Halverson, together with letters of consent from + Thomas J. Gentry, + Jay Bunting , and + James Young consecrated + John D. Keliher for the Diocese of the Holy Trinity (Washington State and the Pacific Northwest) on September 25, 2005

     

    ++ John D. Keliher, ++ Peter Riola, together with letters of consent from + Jay Bunting, + T.J. Gentry, + Douglas Halverson and +John of India consecrated + John L. Simons  whom in 2013 incardinated +Michael Zulinke to HOB  and  Elected to Arch Bishop 2017

     

     

    Order of Corporate Reunion

    Frederick George Lee, under instruction from the Holy See to found the basis for an English Uniate Church, consecrated Mar Theophiluis, Archbishop of Caerleon –upon-Usk in 1879

     

    Mar Theophilius consecrated sub conditione Mar + Leon, titular Archbishop of Malatia in 1890

     

    Mar + Leon consecrated Mar + Andries, Archbishop of Claremont on November 2, 1897

     

    Mar + Andries consecrated Mar + Jacobus, Archbishop of Selsey on June 4, 1922

     

    Mar + Jacobus consecrated Mar + Basilius Abdullah III, Patriarch of Antioch of the ancient Orthodox Church on June 13, 1943

     

    Mar + Basilius Abdullah III consecrated Hugh George de Willmott Newman on April 10, 1946

    Newman consecrated Wallace David de Ortega Maxey on June 6, 1946

     

    Maxey consecrated C. David Luther on September 25, 1977

     

    Luther consecrated Patrick Michael Richard Cronin on June 4, 1988

     

    Cronin consecrated David Lionel Jones as the Presiding Bishop of the United American Orthodox Catholic Church on February 26, 1989

     

    Jones consecrated William J. Oldring for the diocese of North Florida of the United Catholic Church on November 17, 1991

     

    Oldring consecrated George T. Smith for the Provincial Diocese of Christ the King in the united Catholic Church on November 7, 1992

     

    Smith consecrated Gregory A. Francisco for the Provincial Diocese of the Holy Spirit of the United Catholic Church on November 12, 1994

     

    Francisco consecrated Peter William Riola as Auxilliary to the Provincial Diocese of the Holy Spirit in the united Catholic Church on November 4, 1995

     

    ++ John D. Keliher, ++ Peter Riola, together with letters of consent from + Jay Bunting, + T.J. Gentry, + Douglas Halverson and +John of India consecrated + John L. Simons  whom in 2013 incardinated +Michael Zulinke to HOB  and  Elected to Arch Bishop 2017

     

     

     

     Coptic Orthodox Succession

    The Coptic Orthodox Church derives its founding to a legendary missionary effort of St. Mark but its historic roots are much shallower. It arose as a reaction to the Byzantine bureaucracy in the Orthodox Church in Empty and as an attempt to provide the Orthodox Divine Liturgy in a native tongue of the Egyptian people rather than in Greek. It maintained its independence from at least 400 A.D. through the period of Turkish domination and when the Turks were replaced as overseers of the government of Egypt by the British, the Coptic grew Church rather astonishingly. With the withdrawal of the colonial powers from the Middle East, a mini migration of Egyptians of the Coptic faith ensued because these families had often been civil servants and middle managers for the British in Egypt and the Italians in Ethiopia. The Coptic Pope and the hierarchy of the Coptic Church in Egypt authorized the extension of its ministry to overseas believers, An effective datum point for this expansion Westward begins with Archbishop St. John the Divine Hickersaon who consecrated Mar Lukos as Archbishop of the West indies on May 27, 1947.

     

    Lukos consecrated sub conditione Mar Johannes, Archbishop of Karim on February 19, 1951

     

    Mar Johannes consecrated Philip Stuart Singer in 1952

     

    Singer consecrated Ignatius Carolus, Archbishop of Danum of the Old Holy Catholic Church

     

    Carolus consecrated Andre Barbeau, Archbishop and Primate of the Province of Quebec of the old Holy Catholic Church on December 21, 1969

     

    Barbeau, Andre Letellier and Jean Marie Breault consecrated Walter G. Allard on October 22, 1983

     

    Allard, James F. Mondok and Ray Rensville consecrated Michael F. Hembre in Concord, Michigan on January 17, 1988

     

    Hembre, James F. Mondok and Walter G. Allard consecrated Donald L. Locke in Euclid, Ohio on February 14, 1988

     

    Locke consecrated Robert James Cash on November 12, 1989

     

    Cash, Max Broussard and William Oldring consecrated George T. Smith on November 7, 1992

     

    Smith, Max Broussard and William Oldring consecrated Gregory A. Francisco on November 12, 1994

     

    Franciso, Max Broussard and George T. Smith consecrated Peter William Riola for the United Catholic Church on November 4, 1995

     

    ++ John D. Keliher, ++ Peter Riola, together with letters of consent from + Jay Bunting, + T.J. Gentry, + Douglas Halverson and +John of India consecrated + John L. Simons  whom in 2013 incardinated +Michael Zulinke to HOB  and  Elected to Arch Bishop 2017

     

     

     

    Chaldean Uniate Succession

    Under the Ottoman Empire Christian communities of faith were often assigned to the cure of bishops, archbishops, metropolitans and patriarchs at hand so that some Orthodox Churches found a refuge under the mantle of Rome while some Roman Catholic monasteries were assigned to Orthodox prelates. The Chaldean Uniate Church arose out of this policy in Mesopotamia and the extension of the British Mandate following World War I provided a vehicle for its extension in the West. A convenient, if arbitrary, point from which to trace this transfer begins with Yusip Ummanu’il (Maran Yosef Emanuel II), Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans who consecrated Antoine Lefberner on May 27, 1917.

     

    Lefberner consecrated Arthur Wolfort Brooks as titular Bishop of Sardis on May 4, 1925

     

    Brooks consecrated Charles William Keller as titular Bishop of Amesbury on August 16, 1934

     

    Keller consecrated sub conditione Hugh George de Willmott Newman on April; 29, 1947

     

    Newman consecrated Mar Johannes, Archbishop of Karim, on May 27, 1950

     

    Mar Johannes consecrated Philip Stuart Singer in 1952

     

    Singer consecrated Ignatius Carolus, Archbishop of Danum of the Old Holy catholic Church on November 14, 1954

     

    Carolus consecrated Andre Barbeau, Archbishop and Primate of the Province of Quebec of the Old Holy Catholic Church on December 29, 1969

     

    Barbeau, Andre Letellier and Jean Marie Breault consecrated Walter G. Allard on October 22, 1983

     

    Allard, James Mondok and Ray Rensville consecrated Michael F. Hembre in Concord, Michigan on January 17, 1988

     

    Hembre, James F. Mondok and Walter G. Allard consecrated Donald L. Locke on February 14, 1988

     

    Locke consecrated Robert James Cash on November 12, 1989

     

    Cash, Max Broussard and William Oldruing consecrated George T. Smith on November 7, 1992

     

    Smith, Max Broussard and William Oldring consecrated Gregory A. Francisco on November 12, 1994

     

    Franciso, Max Broussard and George T. Smith consecrated Peter William Riola on November 4, 1995

     

    ++ John D. Keliher, ++ Peter Riola, together with letters of consent from + Jay Bunting, + T.J. Gentry, + Douglas Halverson and +John of India consecrated + John L. Simons  whom in 2013 incardinated +Michael Zulinke to HOB  and  Elected to Arch Bishop 2017

     

    Antioch Orthodox Succession

    The ancient Eastern Patriarchate of Antioch lists 126 Patriarch in succession from A.D. 35 to 1876 when it developed a Western compliment. The list of Eastern Patriarchs follows:

     

    AD 35 Peter the Apostle                                AD 500 Phiadius

    • Eyodius 509 Serverius the Great
    • Ignatius the Martyr 544 Sergius

    Earon                                                          547 Domnus III                                             

    • Comelius 560 Anastasius

    142  Eados                                                 564 Gregory I

    • Theophilus 567 Paul II
    • Maximinus 571 Patra
    • Serahim 586 Domnus IV
    • Asclepiades the Martyr 591 Julianus
    • Philip 595 Athanasius II
    • Zebinus 636 John II
    • Babylos the Martyr 649 Theodorus I
    • Fabius 668 Severus
    • Demeirius 684 Athanasius II
    • Paul I 687 Julianus II
    • Domnus I 709 Elias I
    • Timotheus 724 Athanasius III
    • Cyrilus                        740 Evanius I
    • Tyrantus 759 Gervasius I
    • Vitalius 790 Joseph
    • Philogonius 793 Cyriacus
    • Eustachius 818 Dionysius I
    • Paulinus 847 John III
    • Philabianus 877 Ignatius II
    • Evagrius 887 Theodosius
    • Phosporius 897 Dionysius II
    • Alexander 910 John IV
    • John I 922 Basilius
    • Theodotus 936 John V
    • Domnus II 954 Evanius II
    • Maximus 958 Dionysius III
    • Accacius 962 Abraham I
    • Martyrius 965 John VI
    • Peter II 987 Athanasius IV

    AD 1004 John VII                                       

     AD      1640    Ignatius Simeon

    • Dionysius IV 1653    Ignatius Jesus II
    • Theodorus II 1661    Ignatius A. Massiah I
    • Athanasius V 1686    Ignatius Cabeed
    • John VIII 1687    Ignatius Gervasius II
    • Basilius II 1708    Ignatius Isaac
    • Abdoone 1722    Ignatius Siccarablak
    • Dionysius V 1746    Ignatius Gevasiuis III
    • Evanius III 1768    Ignatius Gervasius IV
    • Dionysius VI 1781    Ignatius Mathias
    • Athanasius VI 1810    Ignatius Bahanam II
    • John IX 1817    Ignatius Jonas
    • Athanasius VII 1818    Ignatius Gervasius V
    • Michael I The Great 1839    Ignatius Elias II
    • Anathasius VIII 1847    Ignatius Jacob II
    • Michael II 1872    Ignatius Peter III
    • John X
    • Ignatius III
    • Dionysius VII
    • John XI
    • Ignatius IV
    • Philanus
    • Ignatius Baruhid
    • Ignatius Ishmael
    • Ignatius Basilius III
    • Ignatius Abraham II
    • Ignatius Basilius IV

    1415    Ignatius Bahanam I

    • Ignatius Kalejih
    • Ignatius John XII
    • Ignatius Noah
    • Ignatius Jesus I
    • Ignatius Jacob I
    • Ignatius David I
    • Ignatius Abdullah I
    • Ignatius Naamathalak
    • Ignatius David II
    • Ignatius Philathus
    • Ignatius Abdullah II
    • Ignatius Cadhai

     

     

     

     

    Antioch Orthodox Succession

    (Western Development)

    Ignatius Peter III, Syrian Jacobite Patriarch of Antioch and the East, as Boutos Lbn Salmo Mesko-Mar Ingnatius Peter III is occasionalluy numbered as Ignatius Peter IV. In any case, on December 4, 1876 he consecrated Kadril Kooran-Mar Paul Athanasius as Bishop of Kottayan and appointed him as the representative of the Patriarch of Antioch.

     

    Under the authority of the Patriarchal Bull of Ignatius Peter III the Patriarch of Antioch, Bishop Kadril Kooran-Mar Paul Athanasius, Metrolpolitan Archbishops George Gegorius and Paul Evenius consecrated Antonio Francis Xavier Alvarez as Mar Julius I, Archbishop of Ceylon on July 28, 1879

     

    Under the authority of the Patriarchal Bull of Ignatius Peter III, the Patriarch of Antioch, dated December 29, 1891, Alvarez, Syrian Archbishops Gregorius and Athanasius consecrated Joseph Rene Vilatte in the Church of Notre Dame de Bonne-Mort in Colombo, Brazil on May 29, 1892 as the Archbishop Metropolitan of all the Orthodox Catholics of the Americas.

     

    Vilatte, Archbishop Alvarez (Julius I), Mar Athanasius of Kittayan, and Mar Geogius, Bishop of Niranum consecrated Paolo Miraglia Gulotti as Bishop of Piacenza on May 6, 1900

     

    Gulotti consecrated Jules Houssaye Bishop of the Gallican Church on December 4, 1904

     

    Houssaye consecrated Louis Marie-Francois Giraud Archbishop of Almyre and Gallican Patriarch on June 21, 1911

     

    Giraud consecrated Jean Bricaud on June 21, 1913

     

    Bricaud consecrated Mar Leon Chechemain, who, as a Uniate Bishop in 1897 had consecrated Mar Andrew Charles Albert McLaglen

     

    McLaglen consecrated Mar Bernard Gullaume Bernard Crow on June 4, 1922

     

    Crow consecrated Victor Blanchard on April 10, 1944

     

    Blanchard consecrated Herbert Jacques Monza Heard, who took the name Mar Jacques II, on January 7, 1945

     

     Heard (Mar Jacques II) consecrated Roger Menard on June 13, 1945

     

     Menard consecrated Hugh George de Willmott Newman on June 10, 1946

     

     Newman consecrated Wallace David de Ortega Maxey on July 6, 1946

    Maxey consecrated C. David Luther on September 25, 1997

     

    Luther consecrated Patrick Michael Richard Cronin on June 4, 1988

     

    Cronin consecrated David Lionel Jones on February 26, 1989

     

    Jones consecrated William J. Oldring on November 17, 1991 for the United Catholic Church

     

    Oldring consecrated George T. Smith on November 7, 1992 for the United Catholic Church

     

    Smith consecrated Gregory A. Francisco on November 12, 1994 for the United Catholic Church

     

    Francisco consecrated Peter William Riola as Auxiliary Bishop on November 4, 1995

     

    ++ John D. Keliher, ++ Peter Riola, together with letters of consent from + Jay Bunting, + T.J. Gentry, + Douglas Halverson and +John of India consecrated + John L. Simons  whom in 2013 incardinated +Michael Zulinke to HOB  and  Elected to Arch Bishop 2017