Francesco Reale

From 27 July 2001 to 5 January 2006 the Rt. Rev'd Aaron Robin Orr (1940 to 2010) of Hamilton, ON had been the bishop for all of Canada under Dr. Block's International Free Protestant Episcopal Church. (He had been consecrated by +Block on 19 August 2001.) In January 2006 he and most of +Block's bishops left his jurisdiction and formed the Christian Missionary Anglican Communion. Other former TIPEC bishops that left +Block included: Preston Bradley Carey (cons. 1 Aug. 1999 by + Robert George Montanus who was cons. 15 Dec. 1982 by +John M. Stanley), Joseph Spyridon Christopher Chaskos (cons. 15 Nov. 2004 by +Block), and Muhammad Wolfgang Schmidt (cons. 20 March 2005 by +Block). On 26 Nov. 2005 both +Block and +Schmidt had cons. Peter Leers at +Leers home chapel in Dusseldorf as Bishop for Germany. On 10 Aug. 2007 +Block and +Leers cons. Francesco Reale, a Lutheran pastor, as Bishop of Spain. On 12 February 2008 +Block died and +Leers succeeded him as the Primus of TIFPEC. In February of 2011 +Peers dissolved that jurisdiction, ending the schism.