Walter Hollis Adams

This register brings together the Church’s ordination and consecration records. Dates, officiating bishops and places are given wherever recorded. Conditional consecrations and disputed details are identified in their entries.

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22 October 1972

Walter Hollis Adams

Order
Bishop
Officiating bishop or bishops
William Elliot Littlewood
Place
St Luke’s Chapel in the Hills, Los Altos Hills, California, USA
Record notes

From +Littlewood: On 22 October 1972 he consecrated in his home church, St. Luke's Chapel in the Hills, Los Altos Hills, CA, USA, the Rt. Rev'd Dr Walter Hollis Adams (1907 to 1991), founder of the "Anglican Episcopal Church of North America". The next day, in the Chapel of Miracles, at that time located in Pacific Grove, CA, +Adams exchanged consecrations with +Herman Adrian Spruit of the Church of Antioch - Malabar Rite. On 3 July 1981 +Spruit and +Joseph Laverne Vredenburgh, Archbishop of the Federation of St. Thomas Christians, exchanged consecrations in the Chapel of Miracles, Mount View, CA, USA. Many church bodies are derived from Bishops Spruit and Vredenburgh.

23 October 1972

Walter Hollis Adams

Order
Reciprocal consecration
Officiating bishop or bishops
Herman Adrian Spruit
Place
Chapel of Miracles, Pacific Grove, California, USA
Record notes

From +Littlewood: On 22 October 1972 he consecrated in his home church, St. Luke's Chapel in the Hills, Los Altos Hills, CA, USA, the Rt. Rev'd Dr Walter Hollis Adams (1907 to 1991), founder of the "Anglican Episcopal Church of North America". The next day, in the Chapel of Miracles, at that time located in Pacific Grove, CA, +Adams exchanged consecrations with +Herman Adrian Spruit of the Church of Antioch - Malabar Rite. On 3 July 1981 +Spruit and +Joseph Laverne Vredenburgh, Archbishop of the Federation of St. Thomas Christians, exchanged consecrations in the Chapel of Miracles, Mount View, CA, USA. Many church bodies are derived from Bishops Spruit and Vredenburgh.

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