Our identity and faith
OUR IDENTITY
The Episcopal Free Communion is a confederation of independent and autocephalous Denominations or Churches exercising identity in particularity resulting from the autonomy of every individual Church. Each Church :
- exists in harmony with one another and follows a spirituality and practice within an Anglican ethos.
- only accepts any form of centrality as part of a world-wide family of Churches
This ecclesial model is both catholic and protestant as understood in traditional terms
Each Province contains Churches or Denominations having their own jurisdiction and diocesan structures. Any Church having it’s own canonical organisation is named within that Province, the latter title being reserved to that of the Episcopal Free Communion itself.
Where there is no Denominational title it is assumed that the Provinces are not only those of the Episcopal Free Communion (a confederation or family of Churches) but are of the Episcopal Free Church. Some of these may also prefer to use the original title; the Free Protestant Episcopal Church or the Free Protestant Episcopal Church of England
The Episcopal Free Communion - The Episcopal Free Church :
- is a group of Christians on pilgrimage to and in Jesus Christ
- possesses a spirituality which is inclusive, equitable and ecumenical
- rejoices in our freedom in Christ
- has an ecumenistic outlook
- possesses values of equity and inclusiveness
- promotes the Universal Human Rights Declaration
- seeks the promotion of a just society
- strives to make present the Reign of God - in present-time
- has an “Anglican ethos” as reflected in our diverse forms of worship
- our identities include : Anglo-Catholic, Charismatic, Evangelical, Latitudinarian and Liberal
- was founded as The Free Protestant Episcopal Church
- is a self-governing independent Anglican episcopal community worldwide
- consists of autonomous Provinces, comprising self-governing churches and families of churches
- respects all primates and leaders of the Christian world
- believes the Word of God (Hebrew and Christian Scriptures) contains all necessary for Salvation
- holds Apostolic and Sacramental Traditions as defined in the first four church councils
- accepts as symbols of the faith the Apostolic, Nicene and Athanasius Creeds
- holds Apostolic Succession
- is not subject to any primate beyond our jurisdiction or any European monarch
- rejects imperialism and violence (physical, economic, psychological or other)
THE FREE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH
THE EPISCOPAL FREE CHURCH
THE EPISCOPAL FREE COMMUNION
The FPEC has also used the names "Episcopal Apostolic Church of England" and "Ecumenical Church Foundation"
1689
Non-jurors became independent of the Church of England, maintaining their allegiance to the Royal House of Stuart
1726
Non-juroring bishop Dr Timothy Newmarsh consecrated
1804
Non-jurors identified as the Ancient British Church and as the Orthodox British Church, after developing relations with Eastern Orthodox Churches
1805
Non-jurors ceased when the last of their bishops died without a successor
1866
The Ancient British Church founded by Charles Isaac Stevens
1866
Jules (Raymond) Ferrette , cons. on 02 June, with a mission to initiate an indigenous and autonomous Orthodox Church in England as a step towards reunion between western and eastern Christians. Formerly a French Roman Catholic missionary priest
Mutran Boutros (solus), later the SYRIAN ORTHODOX PATRIARCH OF ANTIOCH, IGNATIUS PETER IV , at Homs, Emesa
1866
Francis George Widdows, previously a Roman Catholic Franciscan monk, became a non-conformist minister at the Church of Martin Luther, 26 Speldhurst Road, South Hackney
1866
Leon Checkemian priested by Leon Chorchorunian (1822–97), the Armenian Catholic archbishop of Malatia, on 27 November. In this capacity, Checkemian served at Besui (1866–8), Aintab (1868), Gurum (1868–77) and then moved to Malatia
1873
The Nazarene Episcopal Ecclesia founded by James Martin
1874
Richard Williams Morgan cons. at Marholm, Northamptonshire on 06 March. Morgan was a Church of England cleric and historian
Jules (Raymond) Ferrette
1874
Ancient British Church founded by Richard Williams Morgan (Mar Pelagius I)
1877
Lee and Seccombe, together with Thomas Mossman were the three founders and leaders of the Order Of Corporate Reunion . The three of them claimed to have been secretly consecrated as bishops, circa 1877. There has been much speculation and conjecture as to who their consecrators were. Owing to the secrecy that long surrounded these consecrations, it may be difficult definitively to establish the facts. However, the website of the Order of Corporate Reunion (currently, as at 2015, led by Peter Paul Brennan) asserts that the consecrators were Dominicus Agostina (cardinal patriarch of Venice), Luigi Nazari di Caliana (archbishop of Milan), Vincentius Moretti (a cardinal), and Ignatios Ghiurekian (a Byzantine archbishop and abbot-general of Ordo Mechitaristarum Venetiarum from the island of St Lazarus near Venice), and that they acted with the authority of Pope Pius IX
1878
Leon Checkemian cons. / made a vardapet by Armenian Catholic Archbishop Leon Korkorunian, on 23 April, as an assistant bishop for his ethnic group in Malatia (his birthplace), Asia Minor. A vardapet is a highly educated celibate priest, or archimandrite, who is a doctor of theology. A vardapet may hold rank similar to that of a bishop, though without the power to ordain priests. The Armenian Catholic Church is in communion with the Roman Catholic Church
1879
Charles Isaac Stevens cons. on 06 March
Richard Williams Morgan, Frederick George Lee & John Thomas Seccombe. co-consecrators were bishops in the Order of Corporate Reunion, Lee was descended from Timothy Newmarsh
1879
Reformed Episcopal Church of the UK founded by Charles Isaac Stevens
1879
The Ancient British Church, as the Non-jurors, opposed Anglo-Catholicism
1885
Leon Checkemian, through contacts with Anglicans, converted to Reform Protestantism & emigrated to England, thereafter studying at New College Presbyterian seminary
1888
Nazarene Episcopal Church founded by James Martin and located at Flaxman Road, London SE5
1888
James Martin cons. on 11 April
Alfred Spencer Richardson of the Reformed Episcopal Church of the UK
1889
The Free Protestant Church of England founded by Leon Checkemian, as a meeting place for all types of Protestant Christians
1889
United Armenian Catholic Church of the British Isles founded by Leon Checkemian on 15 August, to bring his fellow British Armenian refugees into a non-papal church
1889
Leon Checkemian preached in Presbyterian churches in Belfast, Ireland
1890
Nazarene College / seminary founded
1890
Leon Checkemian cons. on 04 May, to remove any doubts as to his episcopal status
Charles Isaac Stevens & Alfred Spencer Richardson
1890
Leon Checkemian licensed to officiate within the Church of Ireland by William C Plunket, fourth Baron Plunket, Archbishop of Dublin & Primate of the Church of Ireland
1890
Plunket opposed Anglo-Catholicism, which he viewed as a trojan horse for Papal re-establishment over the Church of England. He supported Reformed Episcopal churches, such as the United Armenian Catholic Church, in spheres of Roman Catholic influence
1894
Juan Bautista Cabrera cons. for the Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church
William C Plunket
1897
Leon Korkorunian 1822 – 1897
1897
William C Plunket 1828 – 1897
1897
THE FREE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF ENGLAND
Founded on 02 November at the Pro-Cathedral
of St Stephen’s Church, Shrewsburg Road, East Ham, London
Leon Checkemian : First Primus (Mar Leon)
After Checkemian had moved to London, it was decided evangelical Anglicanism would be enhanced by merging the resources of :
The Free Protestant Church : Leon Checkemian
The Ancient British Church : Charles Isaac Stevens
The Nazarene Episcopal Church : James Martin
A union of small British episcopates, established in the 1870s, with a mission to act as a reunion church among the various Protestant bodies, possessing valid Catholic sacraments. The FPEC contained lines from the Armenian Catholic Church, the Syrian Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Church of England. The FPEC adopted the Reformed Episcopal Church of the UK’s 1878 Constitution & Canons
1897
George Walter Lewis Maeers (b. 1855 in Kent) cons. on 02 November for the Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church
James Martin
1897
Frederick William Boucher cons. on 02 November, possibly for an independent ministry
James Martin
1897
Andrew Charles Albert McLaglen cons. as Bishop of Claremont and to be the FPEC Missionary Bishop for Cape Colony based in Cape Town
Leon Checkemian, Stevens, Martin, Maeers and Boucher
1897
James Martin cons. sub conditione as Archbishop of Caerleon-upon-Usk, immediately after the above consecrations
Leon Checkemian, Stevens, Martin, Maeers and Boucher
1897
St. Stephen's Church, Shrewsburg Road, East Ham, London was an iron building recently built in 1897
1898
Frederick William Boucher (legally spelled Baucher) was an engineer's foreman in a factory pattern maker's department in Liverpool. His probable employer was the Mersey Iron Foundry of Liverpool, who built the first cast iron church in the world in 1814. Boucher most likely had a hand in the design of St. Stephen's Church and the resulting contact with the bishops of the FPEC led to his consecration. By the time his daughter Bertha married Lance-Sergeant Arthur William Martin of the Second Battalion, Scottish Rifles on 17 March 1914, he apparently had retired from secular employment as Bertha stated on the marriage certificate that her father's occupation was that of " clergyman "
1899
Richard Williams Morgan 1815 – 1899
1900
FPEC 2 nd Primus : Charles Isaac Stevens
1901
Andrew Charles Albert McLaglen and his family were back in England, living in the Limehouse district of London. McLaglen was slightly mifed that his eldest son, Victor, had joined the British army in the Boer War, and after getting the son out of the forces, thought best for his family to move back to England.
1904
Jules (Raymond) Ferrette 1828 – 1904. He died on 10 October
1909
Church of Martin Luther affiliated with the FPEC
1909
St. Stephen's Church, Shrewsburg Road, East Ham, London was sold to a group of Spiritualists
1909
The Church of Martin Luther, located at 26 Speldhurst Road, South Hackney became the Pro-Cathedral of the FPEC
1916
Juan Bautista Cabrera 1837 – 1916
1916
Benjamin Charles Harris cons. on 25 July as FPEC bishop of Essex
James Martin
1916
Ernest Mumby cons. as FPEC Bishop of Caer-Leirion
James Martin
1917
The British Government recognised the FPEC when it exempted from military service the Venerable Ernest Albert Asquith PhD, as a lawfully ordained minister / in Holy Orders of a legally constituted Episcopal Church, under the Military Service Act 1916.
The Worshipful Magistrate arrived at this conclusion after investigating the origin of the Orders of the Church and the services used for ordinations and consecrations which were based on the 1662 Book of Common Prayer
1917
Charles Isaac Stevens 1835 – 1917. He died on 02 February
1917
FPEC 3 rd Primus : James Martin
1917
The General Synod of the FPEC as of 21 April 1917 consisted of : James Martin, Ernest Mumby, Benjamin Charles Harris, William Hall, Surridge, E.P. Woodcock & Ernest A. Asquith
1917
FPEC possessed its own Canons Ecclesiastical. Legislative and administrative authority of the Church was vested in the General Synod, composed of Bishops and Clergy, together with not more than two lay representatives (Synodsmen) from each organised congregation. This Synod met quarterly, and for the due transaction of its business appointed annually a Treasurer, Registrar, and such other officers or sub-committees as it deemed necessary. It also had the power to add to the General Standing Committee
1919
James Martin 1843 – 1919. He died on 20 October
1919
FPEC 4 th Primus : Andrew Charles Albert McLaglen
1919
The mission church of St. Andrew's at Retreat Place, Hackney served as the Pro-Cathedral until 1936 when it was demolished as part of a city redevelopment project
1920
LEON CHECKEMIAN 1848 - 1920. He died on 03 December
1922
Francis George Widdows cons. on 04 June at St. Andrew's Church, Retreat Place, London as Bishop of Hackney (Ignatius)
Andrew Charles Albert McLaglen
1922
Herbert James Monzani Heard cons. on 04 June at St. Andrew's Church, Retreat Place, London. He was headmaster of Raleigh College
Andrew Charles Albert McLaglen
1922
"The Church Times", of 28th April, devotes practically a whole page to an article, "A Chapter of Secret History". It gives a somewhat detailed account of the background of the Order of Corporate Reunion and the bishops consecrated for that organisation, which was in the episcopal lineage of Charles Isaac Stevens and the passing on of that succession to the FPEC. The Author of this article adds the following: "It is interesting, and may be of future importance to note that the orders possessed by these Protestant bodies conferred through Checkemian, MacLaglen (sic) and their co-adjutors are free from the objections alleged against Anglican Orders by the Roman Catholic Controversialists".
1922
Five northern diocese churches of the Reformed Episcopal Church of England, along with several independent Anglican congregations, formed the Evangelical Church of England with John Pownal Hodgkinson and Charles Edmund Wincott as it’s first bishops
1927
Benjamin Charles Harris was pastor for Romford Evangelical Free Church in Romford, Essex
1928
Frederick William Boucher 1855 – 1928. He was born in St. Helens, Lancashire and died at Ormskirk, Lancashire
1928
Andrew Charles Albert McLaglen 1851 – 1928
1928
FPEC 5 th Primus : Herbert James Monzani Heard
1929
Benjamin Charles Harris, moved to Hertfordshire when he became minister for New Barnet Baptist Church
1930
Herbert James Monzani Heard consecrated bishops for other independent church groups
1930
Victor Alexander Palmer Hayman cons. on 20 April for own jurisdiction
Herbert James Monzani Heard
1930
William Newton cons. For the Evangelical Church of England by presbyters
1936
Francis George Widdows 1850 – 1936. He ministered for many years to his extremely loyal congregation. He was a known homosexual, in an age when it was illegal in the UK to be so, and imprisoned several times on moral charges. Herbert James Monzani Heard subsequently had any mention of Widdows stricken from the official records
1936
Stonebridge Road Methodist Church in South Tottenham was acquired by the Rev'd Hall for the FPEC. This red brick chapel was built in 1882 and was re-dedicated as St. Andrew's Church. In 1954 it was registered as St Andrew's Collegiate Church. It served as the Pro-Cathedral until 1967 when it was sold to the Church of God congregation and later became part of a housing development
1936
Charles Leslie Saul & Gordon Pinder presbyterially cons. by Newton
1937
Between 1937 - 1941, using the pseudonym "Crusader", Boltwood published six "spirit revealed" books supposedly by the Victorian social reformer Charles Kingsley. These books were printed at a small press in the town of Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex, which was probably also the residence of the Boltwoods during those years
1938
Frederick Charles Aloysius Harrington cons. on 13 June for his own jurisdiction
Herbert James Monzani Heard
1938
Herbert James Monzani Heard disliked the name FPEC and introduced “The Episcopal Apostolic Church of England” as an alternative title for the jurisdiction
1939
William Hall cons. on 18 May in St. Andrew's Church, Stonebridge Road, Tottenham, London, N.15
Herbert James Monzani Heard
1939
FPEC 6 th Primus : William Hall
1939
Ernest Mumby died on 12 September in Blackpool, Lancashire at the age of 53. He had worked in the hotel industry for many years and appears not to have exercised much of a ministry
1940
James Dominic Mary O'Gavigan cons. on 20 May for own jurisdiction
Herbert James Monzani Heard
1942
Ernest Albert Asquith 1884 - 1942 One time resident at 26 Speldhurst Road, South Hackney, London and Archdeacon of the FPEC
1942
Boltwood founded the College of Spiritual Science, a correspondence school with courses for the training of "Spiritual Healers, Psychotherapists, and Thalamopathists"
1943
William Bernard Crow cons. on 13 June for own jurisdiction
Herbert James Monzani Heard
1944
Hugh George de Willmott Newman cons. on 10 April
William Bernard Crow
1944
Hugh George de Willmott Newman granted primacy of the United Armenian Catholic Church, on 30 September, by Herbert James Monzani Heard
1944
Gordon Pinder cons. on 17 September for the Evangelical Church of England
Benjamin Charles Harris & Hugh George de Willmott Newman
1944
Charles Leslie Saul cons. on 17 September for the Evangelical Church of England
Benjamin Charles Harris & Hugh George de Willmott Newman
1944
Joseph K C Pillai cons. on 17 September for the Evangelical Church of England
Benjamin Charles Harris & Hugh George de Willmott Newman
1944
Charles Leslie Saul cons. on 17 September
Benjamin Charles Harris
1944
Gordon Pinder cons. on 17 September
Benjamin Charles Harris
1944
Joseph K C Pillai cons. on 17 September
Benjamin Charles Harris
1945
Hugh George de Willmott Newman granted primacy of the Ancient British Church, on 29 January by Herbert James Monzani Heard, and then merged it into his Catholicate of the West jurisdiction
1945
Joseph K C Pillai, ECC bishop for India
1945
The Evangelical Church of England Primus : Gordon Pinder
1945
English Episcopal Church Primus : Charles Leslie Saul (separated from The Evangelical Church of England)
1946
Charles Dennis Boltwood cons. for the Catholicate of the West, sometime between 1946-9
Hugh George De Willmott Newman
1946
Benjamin Charles Harris 1884 – 1946. He was born in Essex and died in Abbots Langley, Herts. Throughout his ministerial career he served as a minister for various non-conformist churches and was, for a long time, nonconformist chaplain at a mental hospital in Abbots Langley
1947
Herbert James Monzani Heard 1866 – 1947
1949
Rev'd Frederick C King (1917-85) and his wife the Rev'd Karla King (deaconess) (1920-99) incorporated in California, on 15 July, The Anglican Apostolic Church Of England as a USA affiliate to the EAC/FPEC with its headquarters in Sunland, California
1949
The FPEC had almost ceased to function
1949
William Hall invited Charles Dennis Boltwood to join the FPEC while maintaining his connection to de Wilmot Newman's organisation, but re-consecrated him in 1952 rather than accept him as a bishop in the eyes of the FPEC
1950
Charles Dennis Boltwood cons. on 25 December, in Canada
Earl Anglin Lawrence James of the Old Roman Catholic Church
1950
Gordon Pinder died
1950
Grant Timothy Billet cons. on 25 December
Charles Dennis Boltwood
1951
Charles Dennis Boltwood joined the FPEC and ordained, sub conditione on 3 May, a presbyter by William Hall
1952
William Hall continued the practice of consecrating bishops who did not serve in the FPEC
1952
John Leslie Baines cons.
William Hall
1952
John Leslie Baines (b.1883), a non-parochial priest in the Church of England
1952
Charles Dennis Boltwood cons. on 06 April for FPEC
William Hall
1952
Charles Dennis Boltwood cons. on 13 April (2 nd time)
Hugh George De Willmott Newman
1953
Ronald Powell (Richard, Duc de Palatine) cons. on 25 October
Herbert James Monzani Heard
1953
Ronald Powell incorporated the Nazarene College as part of his newly established Pre-Nicene Catholic Church
1954
William Hall appointed Charles Dennis Boltwood his successor as primus on 25 March prior to undergoing an operation for colon cancer. Boltwood became the Principal of Nazarene College, continuing to train by post, people around the world in Philosophy and Theology
1955
Nazarene College was merged with St. Andrew's Correspondence College (Tottenham) Ltd. when that organisation was incorporated on 5 July
1956
Charles Dennis Boltwood cons. on 06 July (3 rd time)
Hugh George De Willmott Newman
1956
Nestor Joseph Emile Antoine Frippiat cons. on 02 Sept
Charles Dennis Boltwood
1956
Walter Joseph Hendrik Van Den Berghe cons. on 02 Sept
Charles Dennis Boltwood
1957
Emmet Neil Enochscons cons. in California as Archbishop of the FPEC in the USA
Charles Dennis Boltwood
1957
Emmet Neil Enochs cons. on 02 June (1st cons)
Charles Dennis Boltwood
1957
James Burrows Noble cons. on 04 Sept
Charles Dennis Boltwood
1958
Charles Dennis Boltwood cons. on 19 September
Konstantin Jaroshevich of the Holy Orthodox Church of Christ
1958
Charles Dennis Boltwood consecrated bishops for West Africa and Canada
1958
Emmet Neil Enochs cons. on 31 Aug (2nd cons)
Charles Dennis Boltwood
1958
Reginald Benjamin Millard cons. on 15 Apr
Charles Dennis Boltwood
1958
Emmanuel Samuel Yekorogha cons. on 06 June
Charles Dennis Boltwood
1958
Benjamin Charles Eckhardt cons. on 16 Aug
Charles Dennis Boltwood
1958
Charles Kennedy Samuel Moffatt cons. on 24 Aug
Charles Dennis Boltwood
1959
FPEC 7 th Primus : Charles Dennis Boltwood (previously elected in 1954)
1959
William Hall 1890 – 1959. He was one time chaplain at Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, Stamford Hill
1959
Terence Hope Davenport cons.
Born in 1900, he was a non-parochial priest in the Church of England
William Hall
1959
Baines & Davenport did not establish their own denominations because for the rest of their lives they remained ministers in good standing within the Church of England. It appears they just wanted to quietly hold independent episcopal rank without functioning as a bishop - a not uncommon practice amongst ordinary Anglican clergy.
1959
John Marion Stanley cons. on 03 May, in London
Boltwood, James B Noble and Reginald Benjamin Millard
1959
James Ormerod cons. on 24 July as Primus of the continuing ECofE
Wiliam Hall
1959
John Marion Stanley cons. on 03 May
Charles Dennis Boltwood
1960
Charles Dennis Boltwood resigned from the Catholicate of the West in favour of his FPEC work. Unfortunately Boltwood allowed his bishops and clergy such a free hand in their ministries that the original purpose of the FPEC was forgotten about and most of them viewed the FPEC as a 'starter church' and quickly founded/joined other Anglican/Independent Catholic or Orthodox jurisdictions. (Dr Boltwood's continuing practice of theosophy, in addition to presenting himself as an old fashion evangelical Anglican, did not help matters also)
1960
Eric Daenecke cons. on 12 December
Charles Dennis Boltwood
1961
Dr Francis Thomas cons. in London
Charles Dennis Boltwood
1961
John Trollnas cons. early in the year
Charles Dennis Boltwood
1961
Francis Thomas cons. on 04 July
Charles Dennis Boltwood
1962
William Charles Cato-Symonds cons. on 15 Apr
Charles Dennis Boltwood
1963
F C King cons. as FPEC Archbishop of the USA
Emmet Neil Enochs
1963
Frederick Charles King cons. on 19 May, on the authority of Boltwood
Emmet Neil Enochs
1964
Harry Kenneth Means and his wife Rita travelled to Europe on church business and to research on church history in the British Museum Reading Rooms and at the Ashmolean in Oxford, between March and October
1964
Harry Kenneth Means cons. on 16 August at St. Andrew's Collegiate Church, London
Charles Dennis Boltwood, Francis Thomas, and Albert Dunstan Bell (Old Catholic) of the USA
1964
Harry Kenneth Means, via friends in the North American College at Rome and by virtue of his FPEC episcopal standing, was granted open access to the Vatican Library
1964
POPE PAUL VI blessed Harry Kenneth Means’ Episcopal ring and Pectoral Cross during a Papal Audience, Means attended, held at 5pm on 14 October in St. Peter's, Rome
1964
Harry Kenneth Means was given VIP seating at St. Peter's when he was present for the Canonization Service of the Ugandan Martyrs on 18 October. This service featured the use of the Coptic liturgy and the release of white doves
1964
Donald Jay Foard cons. on the authority of Boltwood
Emmet Neil Enochs
1964
Samuel Richard Acquah cons. on 19 July on the authority of Boltwood
Emmanuel Samuel Yekorogha
1966
Albert John Fuge cons. as the new bishop of the FPEC in New York State
Charles Dennis Boltwood
1966
The final graduation dinner for St. Andrew's Correspondence College was held at the Bonnington Hotel, London, when the College was closed down and its records lodged at Somerset House in anticipation of the sale of the pro-cathedral, in the following year, on 27 August
1966
James Everard Thornhill cons. on 24 Apr
Charles Dennis Boltwood
1966
Arthur Olawale Nelson-Cole cons. on 29 May
Charles Dennis Boltwood
1966
Albert John Fuge cons. on 16 Oct
Charles Dennis Boltwood
1968
Joseph K C Pillai : first bishop of the American Episcopal Church now known as the Anglican Province of America
1968
Albert John Fuge became Archbishop of New York and Metropolitan of the USA on 8 September, replacing Dr Enochs. Dr Enochs had become an Old Roman Catholic bishop
1968
Albert John Fuge was based at the Boltwood Chapel, 177 West Broadway, New York City
1968
Edwin Duane Follick cons. in London on 28 August
Charles Dennis Boltwood (sola)
1968
E J Evans cons. during the summer
Charles Dennis Boltwood (sola)
1968
William Carson Thompson cons. between September 1968 & June 1971, on the authority of Boltwood
Albert John Fuge
1970
Joseph K C Pillai 1901 – 1970
1970
Ernest Percival Parris cons. in the spring, on the authority of Boltwood
Albert John Fuge (sola)
1970
The Free Protestant Episcopal Christian Church, Inc. was incorporated in New Jersey with Willard D Mayo of East Orange, NJ as its Primus on 02 March
1970
Willard D Mayo may have been cons. in January
Eric Daenecke
1971
Robert Randolph Rivette cons. on 19 October in the Boltwood Chapel
Albert John Fuge
1971
Gordon Albert Da Costa cons. on 18 June
Charles Dennis Boltwood
1971
William Elliot Littlewood cons. on 19 June
Charles Dennis Boltwood
1971
Russell Grant Fry, Jr cons. on 19 June
Charles Dennis Boltwood
1971
Horst Karl Frederick Block cons. on 09 Aug (1 st cons)
Charles Dennis Boltwood
1971
Robert Randolph Rivette cons. on 19 Oct
Charles Dennis Boltwood
1972
Horst Karl Frederick Block cons. 26 March (2 nd cons)
Charles Dennis Boltwood
1972
John Lawrence Brown cons. on 21 May, on the authority of Boltwood
Albert John Fuge
1972
FPEC’s Diocese of Texas was incorporated in the State of Texas on 25 April by Robert Randolph Rivette, the only example of the official FPEC ever being incorporated in the USA. This charter is in good standing
1974
The Boltwood Chapel was consecrated on 27 October by Dr Fuge, Dr Boltwood, Benjamin C Eckardt, William C Thompson, and Ernest P Parris
1974
The Convocation of the FPEC passed a new Constitution and adopted policies for greater co-ordination between the work of the USA and Canada
1978
FPEC 8 th Primus : Albert John Fuge - nominated, with Deed of Succession, by Charles Dennis Boltwood at the Park Road Methodist Church, New York City on 17 October and witnessed by Dr Ernest P. Parris (assistant FPEC bishop of New York) and Dr Samuel Lewis (chaplain to Dr Fuge)
1978
Horst K F Block, missionary FPEC bishop for Germany & France, and Emmanuel Samuel Yekorogha (d. 1983) FPEC archbishop of West Africa, disagreed with the Primatial succession
1978
Dr Block became International Primus of a schismatic FPEC (TIFPEC)
1982
Albert John Fuge 1911 – 1982. He died on 30 April and had been a Lutheran pastor, of New York City
1982
Robert Randolph Rivette, FPEC bishop for Texas, succeeded Albert John Fuge as FPEC Archbishop of the USA
1982
FPEC 9 th Primus : Charles Kennedy Stewart Moffatt of Canada on 07 July, nominated by Dr Boltwood
1982
Dr Boltwood directed Dr Francis Thomas to wind down FPEC operations in the UK, sending it’s original church records to Dr Moffatt in Canada
1982
Robert George Montanus cons. on 15 December
John M Stanley
1985
Charles Dennis Boltwood 1889 - 1985. He was born in Essex and died on 03 July. A noted spiritualist in the 1930s & 40s
1988
James Nicholas Meola cons. on 13 March
John Allen Rifenbury and Robert Randolph Rivette
Troy Arnold Kaichen of Virginia is listed in some histories as one of Meola's consecrators but he only gave his consent to the consecration and was not present at it
1989
Charles Kennedy Stewart Moffatt 1907 – 1989. He died without designating a successor as Primus
1991
Charles Leslie Saul 1947 – 1991. He died on 07 June and was the last Primus of the Protestant Episcopal Reformed Church
1991
Melvin Frederick Larson (b. 1920) of Lynnwood, WA, as FPEC Archbishop of the Pacific NW on 19 April. Larson had earlier been ordained deacon and priest by Walter Hollis Adams (1907-91) of the Anglican Episcopal Church of North America, before joining the FPEC
Robert Randolph Rivette
1993
Matthew John Carles Tuz cons. on 03 July. (b. 1951, London, ON)
Robert Randolph Rivette
1994
FPEC 10 th Primus : Edwin Duane Follick. On 07 November he was accorded the Primacy from 1989, as he had been the most senior FPEC cleric since July 1958
1994
Eric Daenecke 1914 – 1994. He was the FPEC bishop of New York from 1960-6 and in 1969 was resident in New Jersey
1997
The Protestant Episcopal Reformed Church, previously the Evangelical Church of England, was formally dissolved on 23 August
1997
The FPEC bishops in the USA were :
Melvin Frederick Larson
Dr John Marion Stanley (b. 1923) of Port Orchard, WA
Dr Harry Kenneth Means (b. 1919) of Port Charlotte, FL,
Dr Edwin Duane Follick (b. 1935) of Woodland Hills, CA
Dr James Nicholas Meola (b. 1938) of Tom's River, NJ
Dr Ernest Percival Parris (b. 1920) of Saint Albans, NY
1997
Willard D Mayo died. There are no records of the Free Protestant Episcopal Christian Church, Inc. after this date
1999
Preston Bradley Carey cons. on 01 Aug
Robert George Montanus
2001
Block’s Church became known as the International Free Protestant Episcopal Church on 07 October
2001
Aaron Robin Orr (1940-2010) of Hamilton, ON, TIFPEC Bishop for Canada on 27 July
2001
Aaron Robin Orr cons. on 19 August
Horst K F Block
2003
Rev'd Cecil G Cobran , BTh., of London, England 1915 – 2003.
He died on 08 March and was one of the last of the (old) FPEC English ministers
2004
Robert Randolph Rivette 1916 – 2004. He died on 25 April and had been a lawyer and an USAF officer. He suffered with Alzheimer's Disease since 1997
2004
Harry Kenneth Means 1919 – 2004. He was born on 27 November and died on 19 April
He had been a Universalist minister who was the leader of a group of 14 parishes in the Christian Universalist Church of America
2004
Joseph Spyridon Christopher Chaskos cons. on 15 November
Horst K F Block
2005
Muhammad Wolfgang Schmidt cons. on 20 March
Horst K F Block
2005
Peter Leers cons. on 26 November at Leers home chapel in Dusseldorf as Bishop for Germany
Horst K F Block, Muhammad Wolfgang Schmidt
2006
The following Bishops left Block's jurisdiction :
Aaron Robin Orr
Preston Bradley Carey
Joseph Spyridon Christopher Chaskos
Muhammad Wolfgang Schmidt
These formed the Christian Missionary Anglican Communion in January
2007
Francesco Reale cons. on 10 August as Bishop of Spain. He had been a Lutheran pastor
Horst K F Block, Peter Leers
2008
Horst K F Block 1936 – 2008. He died on 12 February
2008
Ernest Percival Parris died on 24 September
2008
Peter Leers succeeded Block as Primus of TIFPEC
2011
Peter Leers dissolved TIFPEC, ending the schism
2012
The FPEC General Synod in Bolivia issued a mission statement : “No matter who you are or where you are on your spiritual journey you are welcome to our table. The Gifts of God are free!”
2012
The FPEC now also known as : The Episcopal Free Church Of The Anglican Free Communion
2012
During Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee the Church became established in England. In the year of Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee the FPEC returned home, 30 years after operations in England ended, with the creation of the Province of the UK headed by Dr Palmer
2015
AFC 11 th Primus : Richard Arthur Palmer , on 05 February
2016
Pre-Nicene Catholic Church founded by George William Boyer of London
2016
The Ancient British Church continues today in several bodies, including the British Orthodox Church (a canonical local church within the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria since 1994), and the Celtic Orthodox Church (now united with the French Orthodox Church and the Orthodox Church of the Gauls, forming the Communion of Western Orthodox Churches (CWOC))
2016
Wikipedia : There are many hundreds, perhaps thousands, of bishops deriving lines of succession through Leon Checkemian
2020
The FPEC now also known as : THE EPISCOPAL FREE CHURCH OF THE EPISCOPAL FREE COMMUNION
1890 Consecration of Leon Checkemian
1678
William Sancroft
Archbishop of Canterbury
1694
George Hickes
Asst Bp of Thetford, England
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, Ignatius Peter IV, Syrian Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch (1872-94)
1866
Jules (Raymond) Ferrette
George David Cummins
1873
Charles Edward Cheney
1874
Richard Williams Morgan
1876
William Rufus Nicholson
1879
Charles Isaac Stevens co-cons’d by Frederick George Lee & John Thomas Seccombe
Alfred Spencer Richardson
Reformed Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, USA
1890
Leon Checkemian co-cons’d by Alfred Spencer Richardson