Ordinations and apostolic succession

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

John Moore

Place

Not recorded

The Northampton succession account gives the year and officiant; it does not specify the place or other participants.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

William White; Alexander Viets Griswold; Nathaniel Bowen

Place

St Paul’s Chapel, New York City, USA

Order

Presbyteral consecration

Officiating bishop or bishops

Joseph Gatchell; David Culp; Daniel Pickett

Place

Not recorded

The officiants were Methodist ministers. This is recorded as a presbyteral succession, not a consecration by already consecrated bishops.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

John Reynolds

Place

Not recorded

Methodist Episcopal Church of Canada line.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Philander Smith

Place

Not recorded

Methodist Episcopal Church of Canada line; distinct from Alfred Spencer Richardson.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Under the authority of the Syrian Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

John Henry Hopkins; Benjamin Bosworth Smith; Henry Washington Lee; Joseph Cruikshank Talbot; Charles Todd Quintard; Robert Harper Clarkson; John Barrett Kerfoot

Place

Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Order

Subdeacon

Officiating bishop or bishops

Not recorded

Place

Not recorded

The account describes “the four degrees of subdeacon”.

Order

Deacon

Officiating bishop or bishops

Not recorded

Place

Not recorded

The account calls this “the degree of high deacon”.

Order

Priest

Officiating bishop or bishops

Leon (Ghevont) Chorchorunian

Place

Behesni

With the permission of Archbishop Nazarin and Patriarch Antonius Peter IX.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

George David Cummins

Place

Christ Church, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Raymond Ferrette

Place

Marholm, Northamptonshire, England

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

James Richardson

Place

Napanee, Ontario, Canada

Methodist Episcopal Church of Canada line.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Not recorded

Place

Not recorded

Listed in the Reformed Episcopal succession. The concise lineage does not explicitly identify the officiants for this ceremony.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Charles Edward Cheney; William Rufus Nicholson; Albert Carman

Place

Emmanuel Reformed Episcopal Church, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

The account places Cridge and Samuel Fallows in the same ceremony.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Charles Edward Cheney; William Rufus Nicholson; Albert Carman

Place

Emmanuel Reformed Episcopal Church, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Order

Claimed episcopal consecration

Officiating bishop or bishops

Leon (Ghevont) Chorchorunian

Place

Cathedral of Malatia

Disputed status: the accounts differ on whether this was episcopal consecration or the rank of vardapet. It is not presented here as an established episcopal link.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Richard Williams Morgan; Frederick George Lee and other bishops of the Order of Corporate Reunion

Place

Not recorded

The account does not name all co-consecrators.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

William Rufus Nicholson; Samuel Fallows

Place

St Paul’s Church, Philadelphia, USA

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Alfred Spencer Richardson

Place

London; possibly Christ Church, Carlton Hill (the precise church is uncertain)

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Charles Isaac Stevens; Alfred Spencer Richardson

Place

London; possibly Christ Church, Carlton Hill (the precise church is uncertain)

Other succession accounts give 8 May. The date is retained here with that discrepancy recorded.

Order

Conditional consecration

Officiating bishop or bishops

Leon Checkemian

Place

18 Hume Street, Dublin, Ireland

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

William Conyngham Plunket

Place

Not recorded

The Checkemian biography specifies September 1894.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Peter Fayssoux Stevens

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Leon Checkemian; Charles Isaac Stevens; James Martin; George Walter Lewis Maeers; Frederick William Boucher

Place

St Stephen’s Church, East Ham, London

Also named Andries Caarel Albertus McLaglen.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Leon Checkemian; Charles Isaac Stevens; James Martin

Place

St Stephen’s Church, East Ham, London

Further historical accounts record the legal surname as Baucher.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Leon Checkemian; Charles Isaac Stevens; James Martin

Place

St Stephen’s Church, East Ham, London

Name also appears as Maaers.

Order

Conditional consecration

Officiating bishop or bishops

Leon Checkemian; Charles Isaac Stevens; George Walter Lewis Maeers; Frederick William Boucher; Andrew Charles Albert McLaglen

Place

St Stephen’s Church, East Ham, London

Received the name Mar Jacobus I Antipas.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Andrew Charles Albert McLaglen

Place

Not recorded

Order

Conditional consecration

Officiating bishop or bishops

William Patterson Whitebrook

Place

Chapel of St Thomas of Canterbury, Bishopsthorpe, Stone Hill, Headley Down, Hampshire

Reciprocal ceremony. The account calls Whitebrook “Whitehead” in this sentence; that apparent name discrepancy is retained in the documentary note.

Order

Conditional consecration

Officiating bishop or bishops

Paulo Miraglia Gulotti

Place

Chapel of St Thomas of Canterbury, Bishopsthorpe, Stone Hill, Headley Down, Hampshire

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Paulo Miraglia Gulotti

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Samuel Fallows; Charles Edward Cheney; Robert Livingston Rudolph

Place

Church of the Atonement, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Order

Deacon

Officiating bishop or bishops

Charles Isaac Stevens

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Paulo Miraglia Gulotti

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Paulo Miraglia Gulotti

Place

Not recorded

Order

Priest

Officiating bishop or bishops

James Martin

Place

Not recorded

Order

Priest

Officiating bishop or bishops

James Martin

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Joseph Rene Vilatte; Paolo Miraglia Gulotti

Place

St David’s Church, 536 E. 36th Street, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

James Martin

Place

Church of Martin Luther, 26 Speldhurst Road, South Hackney, London

James Martin was assisted by presbyters William Hall and Ernest Albert Asquith; they are not described here as co-consecrating bishops.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

James Martin

Place

Church of Martin Luther, 26 Speldhurst Road, South Hackney, London

James Martin was assisted by presbyters William Hall and Ernest Albert Asquith; they are not described here as co-consecrating bishops.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Manuel Ferrando

Place

Saint John’s Masonic Lodge, Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, USA

Order

Reported consecration

Officiating bishop or bishops

Andrew Charles Albert McLaglen

Place

St Andrew’s Church, Retreat Place, London

The historical account explicitly records disagreement over whether the consecration occurred.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Andrew Charles Albert McLaglen

Place

St Andrew’s Church, Retreat Place, London

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Frederick Ebenezer John Lloyd

Place

St David’s Church, 536 E. 36th Street, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Arthur Edward Leighton; George Winslow Plummer

Place

Not recorded

Order

Presbyteral consecration

Officiating bishop or bishops

Presbyters (not named)

Place

Not recorded

Distinguished from the later episcopal succession received in 1944.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Herbert James Monzani Heard

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Samuel Gregory Lines; William Albert Nichols; George S. A. Brookes

Place

St Illuminator’s Armenian Apostolic Cathedral, 221 East 27th Street, New York City, USA

Order

Presbyteral succession

Officiating bishop or bishops

William Newton

Place

Not recorded

Order

Presbyteral succession

Officiating bishop or bishops

William Newton

Place

Not recorded

Order

Presbyteral succession

Officiating bishop or bishops

Gordon Pinder; Charles Leslie Saul

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Herbert James Monzani Heard

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Herbert James Monzani Heard

Place

St Andrew’s Church, Stonebridge Road, Tottenham, London

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Herbert James Monzani Heard

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Herbert James Monzani Heard

Place

Not recorded

Order

Conditional consecration

Officiating bishop or bishops

Benjamin Charles Harris; Hugh George de Willmott Newman

Place

St Paul’s Evangelical Church of England, Outwood

Order

Conditional consecration

Officiating bishop or bishops

Benjamin Charles Harris; Hugh George de Willmott Newman

Place

St Paul’s Evangelical Church of England, Outwood

The historical account expressly corrects a reported November date to September.

Order

Conditional consecration

Officiating bishop or bishops

Benjamin Charles Harris; Hugh George de Willmott Newman

Place

St Paul’s Evangelical Church of England, Outwood

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Hugh George de Willmott Newman

Place

Not recorded

The Boltwood biography says that the officiant and precise date are unknown; the general history names Newman.

Order

Deacon

Officiating bishop or bishops

William Hall

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Earl Anglin Lawrence James

Place

North America (precise location not recorded)

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Charles Dennis Boltwood

Place

Not recorded

Order

Conditional priestly ordination

Officiating bishop or bishops

William Hall

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

William Hall

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

William Hall

Place

St Andrew’s Church, Stonebridge Road, Tottenham, London N15

Palm Sunday.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Hugh George de Willmott Newman

Place

Not recorded

Easter Sunday; a further consecration recorded in the history.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Hugh George de Willmott Newman

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Hugh George de Willmott Newman

Place

Not recorded

Further consecration.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Charles Dennis Boltwood

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Charles Dennis Boltwood

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Charles Dennis Boltwood

Place

St Andrew’s Collegiate Church, Tottenham, London

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Charles Dennis Boltwood

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Charles Dennis Boltwood

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Charles Dennis Boltwood

Place

Not recorded

Order

Priest

Officiating bishop or bishops

Emmet Neil Enochs

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Charles Dennis Boltwood

Place

New York City, USA

Also spelled Benjamin Charles Eckardt in the biographical account.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Charles Dennis Boltwood; Emmet Neil Enochs

Place

Church of St Joseph of Arimathea, Los Angeles, California, USA

Also named Charles Kennedy Samuel Stewart Moffatt.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Charles Dennis Boltwood

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Konstantin Jaroshevich

Place

Not recorded

Further consecration.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

William Hall

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Charles Dennis Boltwood; James Burrows Noble; Reginald Benjamin Millard

Place

London

Order

Conditional consecration

Officiating bishop or bishops

William Hall

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Charles Dennis Boltwood

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Charles Dennis Boltwood

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Charles Dennis Boltwood

Place

Not recorded

Order

Priest

Officiating bishop or bishops

Charles Kennedy Samuel Stewart Moffatt

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Charles Dennis Boltwood

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Archbishop Emmet Neil Enochs

Place

Not recorded

Consecrated on the authority of Primus Charles Dennis Boltwood.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Howard Ellsworth Mather; Cyrus Augustine Starkey

Place

Order of Antioch Chapel, Middletown, New York State, USA

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Archbishop Emmet Neil Enochs

Place

Not recorded

Consecrated on the authority of Primus Charles Dennis Boltwood.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Archbishop Emmanuel Samuel Yekorogha

Place

Not recorded

Consecrated on the authority of Primus Charles Dennis Boltwood.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Charles Dennis Boltwood; Francis Thomas; Albert Dunstan Bell

Place

St Andrew’s Collegiate Church, Tottenham, London

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Charles Dennis Boltwood

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Charles Dennis Boltwood

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Charles Dennis Boltwood

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Charles Dennis Boltwood

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Archbishop Albert John Fuge, Sr.

Place

Not recorded

Consecrated on the authority of Primus Charles Dennis Boltwood.

Order

Deacon

Officiating bishop or bishops

Not recorded

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Charles Dennis Boltwood (sole consecrator)

Place

Accounts differ: London; or Boltwood’s home chapel, 1 Aldborough Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex

The shorter history gives London. The fuller succession account specifies the Sussex home chapel. Both descriptions are retained.

Order

Priest

Officiating bishop or bishops

Not recorded

Place

Monrovia, Liberia

The biography gives an additional consecrator and a combined witness/co-consecrator list without clearly assigning each person to a ceremony. The full wording is retained in the record notes.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

William H. Green

Place

Not recorded

The decade alone is recorded.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Archbishop Albert John Fuge, Sr.

Place

Not recorded

Consecrated on the authority of Primus Charles Dennis Boltwood.

Order

Reported consecration

Officiating bishop or bishops

Eric Daenecke

Place

Not recorded

The historical account calls this probable, not certain.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Charles Dennis Boltwood; Benjamin Charles Eckardt; Charles K. S. S. Moffatt; Albert John Fuge Sr.; William Carson Thompson

Place

First Church of Christ, 430 Elizabeth Street, London, Ontario, Canada

The account says that all named bishops laid on hands, while the certificates assigned different chief and assisting roles. No single chief consecrator is inferred here.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Charles Dennis Boltwood; Benjamin Charles Eckardt; Charles K. S. S. Moffatt; Albert John Fuge Sr.; William Carson Thompson; Gordon Albert Da Costa

Place

First Church of Christ, 430 Elizabeth Street, London, Ontario, Canada

The account says that all named bishops laid on hands, while the certificates assigned different chief and assisting roles. No single chief consecrator is inferred here.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Charles Dennis Boltwood; Benjamin Charles Eckardt; Charles K. S. S. Moffatt; Albert John Fuge Sr.; William Carson Thompson; Gordon Albert Da Costa

Place

First Church of Christ, 430 Elizabeth Street, London, Ontario, Canada

The account says that all named bishops laid on hands, while the certificates assigned different chief and assisting roles. No single chief consecrator is inferred here.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Charles Dennis Boltwood

Place

London

The biography names additional participants without clearly distinguishing their roles in the different ceremonies; its wording is retained below.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Albert John Fuge Sr. (chief consecrator); Charles Dennis Boltwood; Benjamin Charles Eckhardt; William Carson Thompson; Ernest Percival Parris

Place

Boltwood Chapel, New York, USA

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Archbishop Albert John Fuge, Sr.

Place

Not recorded

Consecrated on the authority of Primus Charles Dennis Boltwood.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Charles Dennis Boltwood

Place

London

The narrative names Boltwood for the Palm Sunday consecration. Its following list also names Emmanuel Samuel Yekorogha and several witnesses/co-consecrators without clearly distinguishing every person’s role; the full passage is preserved in the record notes.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

William Elliot Littlewood

Place

St Luke’s Chapel in the Hills, Los Altos Hills, California, USA

Order

Reciprocal consecration

Officiating bishop or bishops

Walter Hollis Adams

Place

Chapel of Miracles, Pacific Grove, California, USA

Order

Reciprocal consecration

Officiating bishop or bishops

Herman Adrian Spruit

Place

Chapel of Miracles, Pacific Grove, California, USA

Order

Deacon

Officiating bishop or bishops

Not recorded

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Russell Grant Fry, Jr

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Russell Grant Fry, Jr

Place

Not recorded

Order

Priest

Officiating bishop or bishops

Not recorded

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Russell Grant Fry, Jr

Place

Not recorded

Order

Conditional consecration

Officiating bishop or bishops

Gordon Albert Da Costa

Place

Not recorded

Order

Conditional consecration

Officiating bishop or bishops

Gordon Albert Da Costa

Place

Not recorded

Order

Conditional consecration

Officiating bishop or bishops

Gordon Albert Da Costa

Place

Not recorded

Order

Reciprocal consecration

Officiating bishop or bishops

Joseph Laverne Vredenburgh

Place

Chapel of Miracles, Mount View, California, USA

Order

Reciprocal consecration

Officiating bishop or bishops

Herman Adrian Spruit

Place

Chapel of Miracles, Mount View, California, USA

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

John Marion Stanley

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Joseph Laverne Vredenburgh; George Michael Zaharakis; James Abdul Mikhaelovitch Dennis

Place

Priory of St Thomas of India, 1546 Hayes Street, San Francisco, California, USA

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Morris Ludwick

Place

Chapel of Light, Hines, Oregon, USA

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Charles Kennedy Samuel Stewart Moffatt (chief consecrator)

Place

St Paul’s Reformed Episcopal Church, 628 Royal Avenue, New Westminster, British Columbia

Order

Priest

Officiating bishop or bishops

Charles Kennedy Samuel Stewart Moffatt

Place

Not recorded

Assisted by the Rev’d John D. Kelher and the Rev’d Jack M. Terry; these assistants are not described as bishops. The parish was Old St Peter’s, Tacoma, but the place of this ordination is not stated.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

John Allen Rifenbury (chief consecrator); Robert Randolph Rivette

Place

Not recorded

Troy Arnold Kaichen consented but was not present and is therefore not listed as a consecrator.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Robert Randolph Rivette

Place

Not recorded

Sole consecrator. A later list reverses Larson and Rivette in its wording; the explicit narrative records Rivette consecrating Larson, not a second consecration of Rivette.

Order

Priest

Officiating bishop or bishops

Lewis A. Short, under episcopal warrant of Robert Randolph Rivette

Place

Not recorded

The account describes Short as bishop-elect at this ceremony. He died before his planned episcopal consecration; this entry retains that distinction.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Robert Randolph Rivette

Place

Municipally owned church in east London, Ontario, Canada

Also spelled “Matthew John Carles Tuz” in a shorter list.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Wilbur W. Lyle (participant; other consecrators not specified)

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Wilbur W. Lyle (participant; other consecrators not specified)

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Wilbur W. Lyle (participant; other consecrators not specified)

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Not recorded

Place

London

Order

Deacon, priest and bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Ian H. Phillips

Place

St Matthias the Apostle Mission Chapel, Suite 9, 2174 McIntyre Street, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

Three orders received on the same date. The account records initial non-recognition by associated Old Catholic bodies and later recognition in Vredenburgh’s letter of 24 April 2001, received 2 May 2001.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Robert George Montanus

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Billy Winford Corn

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

William E. Connor

Place

Not recorded

Spelling Connor is retained from this account; it also uses Conner.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Horst Karl Frederick Block

Place

Not recorded

Order

Conditional consecration

Officiating bishop or bishops

Paul Victor Verhaeren; Wayne Moore Hay

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Horst Karl Frederick Block

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Horst Karl Frederick Block

Place

Not recorded

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Horst Karl Frederick Block; Muhammad Wolfgang Schmidt

Place

Peter Leers’s home chapel, Düsseldorf

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Horst Karl Frederick Block; Peter Leers

Place

Not recorded

Order

Deacon

Officiating bishop or bishops

Benjamin Charles Eckardt

Place

Not recorded

Order

Deacon and priest

Officiating bishop or bishops

Walter Hollis Adams

Place

Not recorded

These ordinations preceded his reception into FPEC.

Order

Bishop

Officiating bishop or bishops

Burnice Hoyle Webster

Place

Not recorded