19 April 1991
Melvin Frederick Larson
- 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.
Record notes
On 19 April 1991 +Rivette cons. (sola) the Rev'd Melvin Frederick Larson (born 1920) of Lynnwood, WA as FPEC Archbishop of the Pacific NW. +Larson had earlier been ordained a deacon and priest by +Walter Hollis Adams (1907 to 1991) of the Anglican Episcopal Church of North America before joining the FPEC. Since about 1997 +Rivette had been suffering with Alzheimer's Disease, leaving +Larson, +Dr. John Marion Stanley (born 1923) of Port Orchard, WA, +Dr. Harry Kenneth Means (born 1919) of Port Charlotte, FL, +Dr. Edwin Duane Follick (born 1935) of Woodland Hills, CA, +Dr. James Nicholas Meola (born 1938) of Tom's River, NJ, and +Dr. Ernest Percival Parris (born 1920) of Saint Albans, NY as the only FPEC bishops in the USA. +Stanley had been cons. on 3 May 1959 in London by +Boltwood, assisted by +James B. Noble and +Reginald Benjamin Millard. +Means had been cons. on 16 August 1964 in London by +Boltwood, assisted by +Francis Thomas and Old Catholic bishop +Albert Dunstan Bell of the USA. +Follick had been cons. on 28 August 1968 in London by +Boltwood (sola). +Meola had been cons. on 13 March 1988 by +John Allen Rifenbury (chief consecrator) and +Robert R. Rivette.
+Robert Randolph Rivette (1916 to 2004)
consecrated on 19 April 1991 by Melvin Frederick Larson