Successione apostolica
Il registro riunisce le ordinazioni e consacrazioni della Chiesa, con date, vescovi e luoghi documentati. Le consacrazioni condizionali e le informazioni controverse sono indicate.
Testo storico consolidato in inglese, traducibile dal browser.
Apostolic succession concerns the transmission of episcopal ministry through consecration. The Church’s records bring together several lines through the jurisdictions united in 1897. Succession to the office of Primus is a separate matter from episcopal consecration.
The connected names below are a guide to the principal lineages. The register provides the individual ceremonies, dates and co-consecrators. A place of ministry is not treated as the place of an ordination unless the record says so.
Syriac and Ancient British line
Reformed Episcopal line
Armenian connection
- Leon (Ghevont) Chorchorunian
- Leon Checkemian
Canadian Methodist connection — originating with presbyteral consecration
Understanding the lines
The Reformed Episcopal connection enters through Richardson’s consecration of James Martin and his participation with Stevens in Checkemian’s 1890 consecration. These are distinct ceremonies, not a claim that Martin consecrated Checkemian in 1890.
The Armenian connection requires particular care. Checkemian’s priestly ordination in 1866 is recorded. Whether the rank received in 1878 constituted episcopal consecration or the scholarly rank of vardapet is disputed. The Armenian connection is therefore retained as part of the Church’s history without presenting an unbroken episcopal line as established.
The Roman Catholic connection described in the historical succession chart runs through the Order of Corporate Reunion and its participation in the consecration of Stevens. The chart names Dominicus Agostina, Luigi Nazari di Caliana, Vincentius Moretti and Ignatios Ghiurekian, followed by Frederick George Lee, John Thomas Seccombe and Thomas Mossman in 1877. These historical attributions should be read with the documented accounts rather than treated as a new certification of orders.
Consacrazione episcopale
Monsignor Ricardo Lorite de Lima è stato consacrato vescovo il 15 gennaio 2006 presso il CEMUR (Centro municipale per la ricreazione e la cultura / Teatro Carlos Drummond de Andrade), a Taboão da Serra, nello Stato di São Paulo, in Brasile. Il consacrante è stato il Vescovo Barry Frank Peachey, vescovo in Anglia, Inghilterra, e Cancelliere metropolitano della Anglican Independent Communion Worldwide.
The historical succession chart in full
1890 CONSECRATION OF LEON CHECKEMIAN
Syrian Orthodox Roman Catholic Church of England Notes
1678 William Sancroft Archbishop of Canterbury
1694 George Hickes Asst Bp of Thetford, UK
1712 James Gadderar Aberdeen, Scotland
1727 Thomas Rattray Dunkeld, Scotland
1741 William Falconer/Falconar Caithness, Scotland
1768 Robert Kilgour Aberdeen, Scotland
1784 Samuel Seabury Connecticut, USA
1792 Thomas Clagett Maryland
1797 Edward Bass Massachusetts
1797 Abraham Jarvis Connecticut
1811 Alexander Viets Griswold Eastern Diocese, USA
1832 John Henry Hopkins
Patriarch Ignatius Elias II 1838–47
1846 Mutran Boutros Patriarch of Antioch,
Ignatius Peter IV 1872-94
1866 Jules (Raymond) Ferrette George David Cummins
1873 Charles Edward Cheney
1874 Richard Williams Morgan
1876 William Rufus Nicholson
Dominicus Agostina Card. Archbishop of Venice
Luigi Nazari di Caliana Card. Archbishop of Milan
Vincentius Moretti Card. Archbishop
Ignatios Ghiurekian Archbishop
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1877 Frederick George Lee
John Thomas Seccombe
Thomas Mossman
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1879 Charles Isaac Stevens Alfred Spencer Richardson Reformed Episcopal Church,
Philadelphia, USA
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1890 Leon Checkemian
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Note editoriali e documentarie
This register consolidates the Church’s preserved histories, episcopal biographies and succession chart. Documentary passages are retained in the individual record notes and in the complete historical accounts. Dates with only a year, season or range retain that precision. Missing fields are marked rather than inferred.
The Wikipedia articles on the Free Protestant Episcopal Church and Leon Chechemian were checked on 24 October 2026 for comparison. They contain conflicting dates and historical assertions; those have not been silently substituted for the Church’s records.