The Apostolic Episcopal Church has entered into a mutual treaty of partnership with the Proto Arcieparcato Ortodosso Orientale Assiro-Caldeo-Siriano-Antiocheno-Bielorusso-Slavo-Gnostico Maddalenita under its primate Prince-Archbishop Orazio Mezzetti of Campania, Italy. This agreement recalls the former ancestral links between these two churches through the succession of the Catholicate of the West. The partnership also extends to the universities under our aegis, of which the principal affiliated university of the AEC is the Western Orthodox University in Hawaii, USA.