Paul A. R. Markiewicz

The episcopal succession of the FPEC arrived early in the USA and Canada through a curious manner. On or before 19 February 1905 William Patterson Whitebrook (1871 - 1915) of Lambeth, England was consecrated by +McLaglen. In 1908 Bishop Paulo Miraglia Gulotti (1852 - 1918) of the Italian National Episcopal Church travelled to England in order to conditionally consecrate +Whitebrook into the line of Archbishop Rene Joseph Vilatte as +Whitebrook had joined the English branch of +Vilatte's church. This occured on 27 December 1908 in +Whitebrook's domestic chapel of St. Thomas of Canterbury, Bishopsthorpe, Stone Hill, Headley Down, Hampshire and in turn Bishop Whitehead sub conditional consecrated +Gulotti bestowing the FPEC and Order of Corporate Reunion lines of succession on him. In North America Bishop Gulotti consecrated the following bishops - Carmel Henry Carfora (1911), Paul A R Markiewicz (16 Nov. 1913), Josef Zielonka (16 Nov. 1913), and assisted at the consecration of Frederick Ebenezer John Lloyd (29 Dec. 1915) - bringing an Anglican episcopal line into Vilatte's jurisdiction.