The Apostolic Succession in the Abbey-Principality of San Luigi

The Abbey-Principality of San Luigi has received the Apostolic Succession through the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches, and is heir to a number of different episcopal lineages. This page contains a summary of the main successions. Except where necessary for the purposes of exemplification of a specific descent, they are traced from the nearest bishop who is recorded in standard references as part of the Roman Catholic hierarchy or the hierarchy of the Orthodox churches.

1. Succession of the British Patriarchate from the Syrian Orthodox Church and the Order of Corporate Reunion

Moran Mor Ignatius XXXII Elias II
Syrian Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch (1838-47)
The Patriarch consecrated in 1846:

Boutros ibn Salmo Mesko (Mar Julius) (1799-1894)
Bishop of Taifat Alsrien Al-Qadima in the Syrian Orthodox Church, and Metropolitan of Syria with his seat at Homs (Emesa) (1846-72)
Julius, Metropolitan of the World in the Syrian Orthodox Church
Superior-General of The Orthodox-Catholic Guild of S. Columba of Iona (1850-75)
(Syrian Orthodox Patriarch as Moran Mor Ignatius XXXIV Peter III/IV (1872-94))
Mar Julius consecrated on 2 June (old style)/6 June (new style) 1866:

Raimond Ferrette (Mar Julius) (1828-1904)[1]
Bishop of Iona and its Dependencies (1866)
Patriarchal Legate for Western Europe (1866)
Mar Julius consecrated on 6 March 1867:

Richard Williams Morgan (Mar Pelagius) (1815-89)[2]
Hierarch of Caerleon-upon Usk, The Ancient British Church (1874-89)[3].
Assisted by Bishops Frederick George Lee, Thomas Wimberley Mossman, and John Thomas Seccombe, all bishops of the Order of Corporate Reunion, Mar Pelagius consecrated on 6 March 1879:

Charles Isaac Stevens (Mar Theophilus) (1835-1917)
Ecumenical Patriarch in the Church of God,[4] and Archbishop of Caerleon-upon-Usk, Caertroia and Verulam, The Ancient British Church (1889-1917)
Primus, The Free Protestant Episcopal Church (1900-17)

a. Assisted by Bishop Alfred Spencer Richardson of the Reformed Episcopal Church, Mar Theophilus consecrated on 8 May 1890:
Leon Checkemian [Khekemian] (Mar Leon) (1848-1920)[5]
Archbishop of Selsey and Patriarch in Armenia, The Ancient British Church (1890-1900)
Primate, The United Armenian Catholic Church in the British Isles (1890-1900)
Archbishop-Primus, The Free Protestant Episcopal Church (1897-1900)
b. Assisted by Mar Theophilus and Bishop James Martin of the Free Protestant Episcopal Church, Mar Leon consecrated on 2 November 1897[6]:

Andrew Charles Albert [Andries Caarel Albertus] McLaglen (Mar Andries) (1851-1928)
Titular Bishop of Claremont (1897); Patriarch and Archbishop, The Ancient British Church (1919-22)
Primate, The United Armenian Catholic Church in the British Isles (1919-22)[7]
Primus, The Free Protestant Episcopal Church (1919-28)
Assisted by four priests, Frs. William Hall, Frederick William Titford, Thomas Edward Rimmington, and Thomas de Ros van den Bergh, Mar Andries consecrated on 2 June 1922[8]:

Herbert James Monzani-Heard (Mar Jacobus II) (1866-1947)
Patriarch and Hierarch of Caerleon-upon-Usk, and Archbishop of Selsey, The Ancient British Church (1922-45)
Primate, The United Armenian Catholic Church in the British Isles (1922-45)
Primus, The Free Protestant Episcopal Church (1930-39)
Primate, The Episcopal Apostolic Church (1930-45)
Senior Archbishop and Vicar General (1938-42), Primate (1942-44[9]), The British Orthodox Catholic Church
Assisted by two priests, Frs. Alfred Kaufmann and Leonard J. Emery, Mar Jacobus II consecrated on 13 June 1943[10]:

William Bernard Crow (Mar Bernard (1943-44); Mar Basilius Abdullah III (1944-76)) (1895-1976)
Patriarch of Antioch, The Ancient Orthodox Catholic Church (1943-76)
Patriarch, The Western Orthodox Catholic Church (1944)
Bishop of Santa Sophia (1943) Grand Master of the Order of the Holy Wisdom (1939-76)
Assisted by two priests, Frs. Leonard J. Emery and Frank Ernest Langhelt, Mar Basilius Abdullah III consecrated on 10 April 1944[11]:

Hugh George de Willmott Newman (Mar Georgius I) (1905-79)
Prince-Catholicos (1944-53), Archbishop and Metropolitan of Glastonbury (1944-45), Catholic Apostolic Church (Catholicate of the West) etc.
Patriarch of Glastonbury, The Ancient British Church (1945-53)
Prince-Catholicos and Patriarch of Glastonbury, Catholic Apostolic Church (United Orthodox Catholicate) (renamed Catholicate of the West between 1959-68) (1953-70)
Patriarch of Glastonbury, Catholic Apostolic Church (Metropolis of Glastonbury)/Orthodox Church of the British Isles (1970-79)
Bishop of the British Isles, Apostolic Episcopal Church (1945-79)
Assisted by John Sebastian Marlow Ward, Archbishop of Olivet, Charles Leslie Saul (Mar Leofric), Archbishop of Suthronia, Richard Kenneth Hurgon (Mar Benignus), Titular Bishop of Mere, John Syer (Mar John), Bishop of Verulam, and Frank Ernest Langhelt (Mar Francis), Bishop of Minster, all of The Catholicate of the West, Mar Georgius I consecrated on 6 June 1946[12]:
[instrument of consecration]
[photograph of consecration]

Wallace de Ortega Maxey (Mar David I) (1902-92)
Archbishop-Primate, The Apostolic Episcopal Church (1948-86)
Patriarch of Malaga, Apostolic Primate of all the Iberians, and Supreme Hierarch of the Americas (1946-51); Archbishop ad personam (1951-65); Catholicos of the West etc. (1965-86; Patriarch of Malaga 1965-77)
Assisted by Archbishop-Primate Ronald R. Ramm (1929-2000), Patriarchal-Archbishop, The Apostolic Episcopal Catholic Church, The Catholicate of the West, and the Ancient Christian Fellowship, Archbishop-Primate Jürgen W. Bless (1942-2010), The German Old Catholic Church in America, Archbishop-Primate Emile F. R. Fairfield (1912-2005), Iglesia Ortodóxa Católica Apostólica Méxicana, Archbishop-Primate Arthur Garrow (1928-), The Tridentine Old Catholic Church of the Americas, Bishop Daniel N. McCarty (1936-), The Apostolic Catholic Church of the Americas, Bishop Paul G. W. Schultz (1931-95), Iglesia Ortodóxa Apostólica Méxicana and Apostolic Administrator of the USA of The Apostolic Episcopal Church, Mar David I consecrated and enthroned as the third Archbishop-Primate of the AEC on 7 November 1986[13]:
[instrument of consecration]

Nils Bertil Alexander Persson (Mar Alexander) (1941-)
Archbishop-Primate, The Apostolic Episcopal Church etc. (1986-98)
Assisted by Metropolitan-Archbishop-Primate Phillip Lewis, the Ethiopian Orthodox Coptic Church of North & South America & Europe, and Archbishop Paget E.J. Mack, AEC (acting as Commissary for the Primate, Archbishop Francis C. Spataro (Mar Timotheos III)), Mar Alexander consecrated and enthroned as AEC Archbishop of Great Britain on 23 November 2008[14]:
[instrument of consecration]
[photograph of consecration]

John Kersey (Mar Joannes Edmundus) (1972-)
Prince-Abbot, Mukungu and Archbishop of San Luigi (2011-)
Primate, The Old Catholic Church of Great Britain (2012-)
Archbishop-Primate, The Apostolic Episcopal Church, Prince-Catholicos of the Catholicate of the West and British Patriarch, etc. (2015-)
Prelate and Rector Pro-Provincial of Canterbury, The Order of Corporate Reunion (2015-)
Grand Master of the Apostolate of the Holy Wisdom, Ecclesiast of the Byelorussian Patriarchate of St Andrew the First-Called Apostle, etc. (2015-)

Notes:
[1] He was ordained priest in the Roman Catholic Church on 2 June 1855. A transcript of the Instrument of Consecration is reproduced in Mar Georgius The Man from Antioch, Catholic Apostolic Church (United Orthodox Catholicate), Glastonbury, 1958, pp. 27-28.
[2] Also known by his name of Môr Meirion as a Bard of the Gorsedd. He had been ordained priest in the Church of England on 2 October 1842.
[3] Mar Pelagius does not seem to have used the personal style of Patriarch, preferring that of Hierarch, but he does refer to the church over which he presided as “the Primitive Apostolic Patriarchal Church of the British Isles.” [Preface to Altar Service of the British Church, 1878]
[4] Also referred to as “Chief Patriarch”.
[5] He was ordained priest in the Armenian Catholic Church on 27 November 1866 and on 23 April 1878 was consecrated chorbishop of Malatia by Archbishop Leon Chorchorunian of Malatia. This consecration gave him the fullness of the episcopate but with limited faculties; he himself said that he was not authorized to confer Major Orders under it (Mar Georgius The Man from Antioch, p. 13).
[6] See report of the consecration in The Star, London, 2 November 1897.
[7] The Church Times of 28 August 1922, p. 415, states that Holy Orders “conferred through Chechemian, McLaglen and their co-adjutors are free from the objections alleged against Anglican Orders by Roman Catholic controversialists.”
[8] At St Andrew’s Church, Speldhurst Road, Hackney, London. A transcript of the Instrument of Consecration is reproduced in Mar Georgius The Man from Antioch, p. 32.
[9] At which point this body was absorbed into the Catholicate of the West.
[10] At Dr Crow’s private oratory of St. Sophia, 4, Broadmead Road, Woodford Green, Essex. A transcript of the Instrument of Consecration is reproduced in Mar Georgius The Man from Antioch, pp. 32-33.
[11] At St Andrew’s Collegiate Church, Stonebridge Road, Tottenham, London N15, then a church of the Free Protestant Episcopal Church. A transcript of the Instrument of Consecration is reproduced in Marianno Gervase A Notable Episode in Church History, Glastonbury, Patriarchal Press, 1961, pp. 16-18.
[12] At the Abbey Church of Christ the King, Barnet, according to the Armenian and Orthodox Catholic Rites. See report of the consecration in the Orthodox Catholic Review, vol. 2 no. 1, June 1946, p. 3.
[13] At the chapel of Archbishop Paul G.W. Schultz in Glendale, California.
[14] At Golders Green Unitarian Church, London.

2. Succession from the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church

Boutros ibn Salmo Mesko (Mar Julius/Moran Mor Ignatius XXXIV Peter [Boutros] III/IV), (1799-1894)[1]
Patriarch of the Syrian Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East (1872)
Assisted by Mar Gregorios Abd Allah of The Syrian Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East and Joseph Mar Dionysios V (Joseph Pulikottil) of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, Moran Mor Ignatius XXXIV Peter IV consecrated on 4 December 1876[2]:

Paulose Kadavil Kooran (St. Paulose Mar Athanasius[3]) (1833-1907)
Metropolitan of Kottayam, Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (1876-1907)
Assisted by Paulose Mar Ivanios (Paulose Murimattom) (1836-1913),[4] Metropolitan of Kandanad, Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, and St. Geevarghese Mar Gregorios[5] (Parumala Thirumeni, Geevarghese Chathurutil) (1848-1902), Metropolitan of Niranam and Thumpanou, Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, St. Paulose Mar Athanasius consecrated on 29 July 1889:
[consecration certificate page 1; 2]

Antonio Francisco Xavier Alvarez (Mar Julius I) (1836-1923)
Metropolitan of Ceylon, Goa and India, Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church[6] (1889-1923)
Assisted by Paulose Mar Athanasius (Kadavil Kooran) (1833-1907), Metropolitan of Angamaly, Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, and St. Geevarghese Mar Gregorios (see above), Mar Julius I consecrated on 29 May 1892:
[instrument of consecration]
[confirmation of Roman Catholic validity of this consecration issued by Bonaventura Cardinal Ceretti, ref. N5900, published in the “Bayerischer Kurier” no. 189, of 11 July 1925]

Joseph René Vilatte (Mar Timotheos I) (1854-1929)
Metropolitan of the Old Catholic Church of America (1892)
5th Prince-Abbot and Mukungu of San Luigi (as Joseph III) (1899-1929)
Mar Timotheos I consecrated on 1 June 1923:
[instrument of consecration]

Francis John Edmond Basile Barwell-Walker (1881-1963)
6th Prince-Abbot and Mukungu of San Luigi (as Edmond I) (1929-61)
Archbishop of San Luigi (1946-61)
Titular Bishop of Caesarea, Byzantine Universal (Catholic) and Orthodox Church of the Americas (1946-63)
Archbishop Barwell-Walker together with Bishop Samuel Gregory Lines, The Apostolic Christian Church, assisted Bishop Edwin Wallace Hunter, Regionary Bishop of the United States and Canada, The North American Old Roman Catholic Church and consecrated on 24 March 1929:

Nils Bertil Alexander Persson (Mar Alexander) (1941-)
Archbishop-Primate, The Apostolic Episcopal Church etc. (1986-98)
Assisted by Metropolitan-Archbishop-Primate Phillip Lewis, the Ethiopian Orthodox Coptic Church of North & South America & Europe, and Archbishop Paget E.J. Mack, AEC (acting as Commissary for the Primate, Archbishop Francis C. Spataro (Mar Timotheos III)), Mar Alexander consecrated and enthroned as AEC Archbishop of Great Britain on 23 November 2008:
[instrument of consecration]
[photograph of consecration]

[1] See Table I.
[2] At St Thomas Church, North Paravur, India
[3] Canonised by the Syrian Orthodox Church.
[4] He was consecrated on 17 May 1877 by Patriarch Mor Ignatius XXXIV Peter. In 1912 he became the first Catholicos of the East in the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church.
[5] Canonised by the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church and the Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church. He was consecrated on 16 December 1876 by Patriarch Mor Ignatius XXXIV Peter.
[6] The name Independent Catholic Church of Ceylon, Goa and India was used by Mar Julius I for his mission, which had been founded independently under that name and joined the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church in 1886.
[7] A church established in 1926 by Archbishop Carmel Henry Carfora, Primate of the North American Old Roman Catholic Church, and in full communion with that body.

3. Succession from the Roman Catholic Church via the Old Catholic Church of Utrecht

Scipione Rebiba (1504-1577)
Assisted by Bishops Annibale Caracciolo and Giacomo de’Giacomelli, Cardinal Rebiba consecrated on 12 March 1566:

Giulio Antonio Santorio (1532-1602)
Assisted by Bishops Giulio Masetti and Ottaviano Paravicini, Cardinal Santorio consecrated on 7 September 1586:

Girolamo Bernerio (1540-1611)
Assisted by Bishops Claudio Rangoni and Giovanni Ambrogio Caccia, Cardinal Bernerio consecrated on 4 April 1604:

Galeazzo Sanvitale (1584-1622)
Assisted by Bishops Cosmo de Torres and Ottavio Ridolfi, Archbishop Emeritus Sanvitale consecrated on 2 May 1621:

Lodovico Ludovisi (1575-1632)
Assisted by Archbishops Emeriti Galeazzo Sanvitale and Vulpiano Volpi, Cardinal Ludovisi consecrated on 12 June 1622:

Luigi Caetani (1595-1642)
Assisted by Bishops Antonio Ricciulli and Benedetto Landi, Cardinal Caetani consecrated on 7 October 1630:

Giovanni Battista Scannarolo (ca 1600-1664)
Assisted by Bishop Marco Antonio Bottoni and Bishop Emeritus Laurenzio Gavotti, Bishop Scannarolo consecrated on 24 October 1655:

Antonio Barberini (1607-1671)
Assisted by Bishops Pierre de Cambout de Coislin and Michel Colbert de Saint-Pouange, Cardinal Barberini consecrated on 12 November 1668:

Charles-Maurice Le Tellier (1642-1710)
Assisted by Bishops Armand de Monchy and Gabriel de Roquette, Archbishop Le Tellier consecrated on 21 September 1670:

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627-1704)
Assisted by Bishops Gui de Sève de Rochechouart and Louis Marie Armand de Simiane de Gorde, Bishop Emeritus Bossuet consecrated on 16 April 1673:

Jacques de Goyon de Matignon (1643-1727)
Assisted by Bishops Louis-François Duplessis de Mornay and Jean-Baptiste Massillon, Bishop Emeritus de Matignon consecrated as Bishop of Ascalon in partibus infidelium on 10 February 1719:

Dominique Marie Varlet (1678-1742)
Bishop Varlet consecrated as Archbishop of Ütrecht on 17 October 1739:

Petrus Johannes Meindaerts (1678-1767)
Archbishop Meindaerts consecrated as Bishop of Haarlem on 11 July 1745:

Johannes van Stiphout (-1777)
Assisted by Bishop Johannes Byeveld, Bishop van Stiphout consecrated as Archbishop of Ütrecht on 7 February 1768:

Walter Michael van Nieuwenhuysen (-1797)
Archbishop van Nieuwenhuisen consecrated as Bishop of Haarlem on 21 June 1778:

Adrian Johannes Broekman (-1800)
Assisted by Bishop Nicolas Nellemans, Bishop Broekman consecrated as Archbishop of Ütrecht on 5 July 1797:

Johannes Jacobus van Rhijn (-1810)
Archbishop van Rhijn consecrated as Bishop of Deventer on 7 November 1805:

Gispert de Jong (-1824)
Bishop de Jong consecrated as Archbishop of Ütrecht on 24 April 1814:

Willibrord van Os (1744-1825)
Archbishop van Os consecrated as Bishop of Haarlem on 25 April 1819:

Johannes Bon (-1841)
Bishop Bon consecrated as Archbishop of Ütrecht on 13 November 1825:

Johannes van Santen (1772-1858)
Archbishop van Santen consecrated as Bishop of Deventer on 17 July 1853:

Hermann Heijkamp (-1892)
Bishop Heijkamp consecrated as Bishop of Haarlem on 11 August 1873:

Gaspart Johannes Rinkel (-1906)
Assisted by Bishops Cornelius Diependaal, Josef Hubert Reinkens and Eduard Herzog, Bishop Rinkel consecrated as Archbishop of Ütrecht on 11 May 1892:

Gerardus Gul (1847-1920)
Archbishop, The Union of Ütrecht of the Old Catholic Churches (1892)
Assisted by Bishops Johannes Jacobus van Thiel and Nicholas Bartholomaeus Petrus Spit, Oud-Katholieke Kerk van Nederland, and Bishop Josef Demmel, Alt-Katholische Kirche in Deutschland, Archbishop Gul consecrated on 28 April 1908:
[instrument of consecration]
[photograph of consecration]

Arnold Harris Mathew (1852-1919)
Old Catholic Bishop of Great Britain (1908)
Archbishop-Primate, The Old Catholic Church in Great Britain (1911)
Archbishop Mathew’s jurisdiction was received into full communion with the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and all the East on 5 August 1911.
[copy of Act of Union]
Archbishop Mathew consecrated as Bishop of Scotland on 29 June 1913:

Rudolf Franziskus Eduard, Prince de Landas Berghes et de Rache, Duc de St Winock (1873-1920)
Archbishop-Primate, The National Catholic Church in North America (1914)
Assisted by Bishop William Henry Francis Brothers, The National Catholic Church in North America, Archbishop de Landas Berghes et de Rache consecrated on 4 October 1916:
[instrument of consecration]

Carmel [Carmelo] Henry Carfora (1878-1958)
Archbishop-Primate, The North American Old Roman Catholic Church (1919)
Archbishop Carfora consecrated on 30 July 1942:

Hubert Augustus Rogers (1887-1976)
Archbishop-Primate, The North American Old Roman Catholic Church (1958)
Assisting Peter Andreas Zhurawetsky, Patriarch, The Orthodox Catholic Patriarchate of America, together with Archbishop James Hubert Rogers and Archbishop Julian L. Smith of The North American Old Roman Catholic Church, Archbishop Rogers consecrated on 1 July 1961:
[instrument of consecration]
[photograph of consecration]

Robert Gerald John Schuyler Zeiger (1929-1999)
Archbishop Metropolitan-Primate, The Apostolic Catholic Church of the Americas (1961)
While a member of the Roman Catholic Church, Archbishop Zeiger consecrated on 14 June 1994:
[confirmation of validity from a Roman Catholic diocesan newspaper]
[instrument of consecration]

Nils Bertil Alexander Persson (Mar Alexander) (1941-)
Archbishop-Primate, The Apostolic Episcopal Church etc. (1986-98)
Assisted by Metropolitan-Archbishop-Primate Phillip Lewis, the Ethiopian Orthodox Coptic Church of North & South America & Europe, and Archbishop Paget E.J. Mack, AEC (acting as Commissary for the Primate, Archbishop Francis C. Spataro (Mar Timotheos III)), Mar Alexander consecrated and enthroned as AEC Archbishop of Great Britain on 23 November 2008:
[instrument of consecration]
[photograph of consecration]

4. Succession from the Russian Orthodox Church

Sergij Vladimirovich Simanskij (Aleksij I, 1877-1970)
Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia (1945)
Assisted by Metropolitan Nikolaj (Boris Dorofeevic´ Jaruševic´), Archbishops Makarij (Sergej Konstantinovic´ Daev) and Gurij (Vjaéslav Michaijlovic´ Egorov) and Bishops Aleksij (Viktor Aleksandrovic´ Konoplev) and Pimen (Sergij Izvekov), Patriarch Aleksij I consecrated on 28 December 1958:

Konstantin Nikolaevich Wendland (Ioann/John) (1909-89)
Patriarchal Exarch, The Russian Orthodox Church in America (1963)
Assisted by Bishop Dositheus (Michail Ivanchenko), The Russian Orthodox Church in America, Exarch John consecrated on 17 April 1966:

Joseph John Skureth (1908-92)
Exarch, The Western Orthodox Catholic Church in America (1966)
Assisted by Archbishop Francisco de Jesus Pagtakhan and Bishop Larry L. Shaver, both of Iglesia Filipina Independiente of USA, Exarch Joseph consecrated on 28 February 1989:
[instrument of consecration]
[photograph taken after consecration]

Nils Bertil Alexander Persson (Mar Alexander) (1941-)
Archbishop-Primate, The Apostolic Episcopal Church etc. (1986-98)
Assisted by Metropolitan-Archbishop-Primate Phillip Lewis, the Ethiopian Orthodox Coptic Church of North & South America & Europe, and Archbishop Paget E.J. Mack, AEC (acting as Commissary for the Primate, Archbishop Francis C. Spataro (Mar Timotheos III)), Mar Alexander consecrated and enthroned as AEC Archbishop of Great Britain on 23 November 2008:
[instrument of consecration]
[photograph of consecration]

5. Succession from the Albanian Orthodox Church

Antoniadis [Andon] Yahon (Hierotheos [Jerotheu])
Metropolitan of Korca, The Albanian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (1923)
Assisted by Metropolitan of Berat Kristofor (Sotirios Kisi), The Albanian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Hierotheos consecrated on 21 November/4 December 1923:

Theophanes [Fan] Stylian Noli (1882-1965)
Archbishop, The Albanian Orthodox Church in America (1919)
Assisted by Bishop Christopher Contogeorge, The Holy Eastern Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church in North America, Archbishop Noli consecrated on 30 June 1934:

William Henry Francis Brothers (1887-1979)
Archbishop-Metropolitan, The Old Catholic Church in America-The Western Orthodox Catholic Church in America (1962)
Assisted by Bishop Joseph A. MacCormack, The Old Catholic Church in America-The Western Orthodox Catholic Church in America, Archbishop Brothers consecrated on 14 April 1966:

Nils Bertil Alexander Persson (Mar Alexander) (1941-)
Archbishop-Primate, The Apostolic Episcopal Church etc. (1986-98)
Assisted by Metropolitan-Archbishop-Primate Phillip Lewis, the Ethiopian Orthodox Coptic Church of North & South America & Europe, and Archbishop Paget E.J. Mack, AEC (acting as Commissary for the Primate, Archbishop Francis C. Spataro (Mar Timotheos III)), Mar Alexander consecrated and enthroned as AEC Archbishop of Great Britain on 23 November 2008:
[instrument of consecration]
[photograph of consecration]

6. Succession from the Roman Catholic Church via the Chaldean Catholic Church

Yosif Khayatt (Maran Mar Yosif Emmanuel II Thoma) (1852-1947)
Patriarch, The Chaldean Catholic Church (1900)
Assisted by Bishop of Salmas and Patriarchal Vicar Pierre Aziz, Maran Mar Yosif Emmanuel II Thoma consecrated on 27 May 1917:

Antoine Lefebvre [Lefberne] (Mar Antoine) (1862-1953)
Member, Ordo Antonianus S. Hormisdae Chaldaeorum
Patriarchal Exarch of Western Europe (1917)
Delegate and Special Commissary in the USA (1917)
Assisted by Mar James (Fernand Portal) and Mar Evodius (Edward Robert Smith), Bishops of The Chaldean Catholic Church, Mar Antoine consecrated on 4 May 1925:
[notarized copy of instrument of consecration]

Arthur Wolfort Brooks (Mar John Emmanuel) (1889-1948)
Archbishop-Primate, The Apostolic Episcopal Church (1930)
Assisted by Rev. David Leonarides and Rev. Stanatios Jongsoudis, both of The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Archbishop Brooks consecrated on 13 July 1946:

Nils Bertil Alexander Persson (Mar Alexander) (1941-)
Archbishop-Primate, The Apostolic Episcopal Church etc. (1986-98)
Assisted by Metropolitan-Archbishop-Primate Phillip Lewis, the Ethiopian Orthodox Coptic Church of North & South America & Europe, and Archbishop Paget E.J. Mack, AEC (acting as Commissary for the Primate, Archbishop Francis C. Spataro (Mar Timotheos III)), Mar Alexander consecrated and enthroned as AEC Archbishop of Great Britain on 23 November 2008:
[instrument of consecration]
[photograph of consecration]

7. Succession from the Roman Catholic Church and the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church

Scipione Rebiba (1504-1577)
Assisted by Bishops Annibale Caracciolo and Giacomo de’Giacomelli, Cardinal Rebiba consecrated on 12 March 1566:

Giulio Antonio Santorio (1532-1602)
Assisted by Bishops Giulio Masetti and Ottaviano Paravicini, Cardinal Santorio consecrated on 7 September 1586:

Girolamo Bernerio (1540-1611)
Assisted by Bishops Claudio Rangoni and Giovanni Ambrogio Caccia, Cardinal Bernerio consecrated on 4 April 1604:

Galeazzo Sanvitale (1584-1622)
Assisted by Bishops Cosmo de Torres and Ottavio Ridolfi, Archbishop Emeritus Sanvitale consecrated on 2 May 1621:

Lodovico Ludovisi (1575-1632)
Assisted by Archbishops Emeriti Galeazzo Sanvitale and Vulpiano Volpi, Cardinal Ludovisi consecrated on 12 June 1622:

Luigi Caetani (1595-1642)
Assisted by Bishops Antonio Ricciulli and Benedetto Landi, Cardinal Caetani consecrated on 7 October 1630:

Ulderico Carpegna (1595-1679)
Assisted by Archbishop Stefano Ugolini and Bishop Giovanni Tommaso Pinelli, Cardinal Carpegna consecrated on 2 May 1666:

Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni (1623-98)
Assisted by Archbishop Stefano Brancaccio and Bishop Costanzo Zani, Cardinal Paluzzi consecrated on 3 February 1675:

Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina (Pope Benedict XIII) (1649-1730)
Vicarius Christi (1724)
Assisted by Giuseppe Cardinal Accoramboni and Antonio Saverio Cardinal Gentili, Benedictus PP XIII consecrated on 16 July 1714:

Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini (Pope Benedict XIV) (1675-1758)
Vicarius Christi (1740)
Benedictus PP XIV consecrated on 19 March 1743:

Carlo della Torre Rezzoni (Pope Clement XIII) (1693-1769)
Vicarius Christi (1758)
Assisted by Archbishops Scipio Borghese and Ignatius Reali, Clemens PP XIII consecrated on 26 April 1767:

Bernardinus Giraud (1721-1777)
Cardinal (1771)
Assisted by Archbishop Marcus Antonius Conti and Bishop Iosefus Maria Carafa, Cardinal Giraud consecrated on 23 February 1777:

Alexander Matthaeus [Mattei] (1744-1820)
Cardinal (1779)
Assisted by Bishops Geraldus Macioti and Franciscus Albertini, Cardinal Matthaeus consecrated on 12 September 1819:

Petrus Franciscus Galeffi [Galleffi] (1770-1837)
Cardinal (1803)
Assisted by Archbishop Ioannes Franciscus Falzacappa and Iosephus della Porta Rodini, Cardinal Galeffi consecrated on 8 December 1822:

Iacobus Philippus Fransoni (1775-1856)
Cardinal (1826)
Assisted by Patriarch Joseph Valerga and Bishop Rudesindus Salvado, Cardinal Fransoni consecrated on 8 June 1851:

Carolus Sacconi (1808-1889)
Cardinal (1861)
Assisted by Archbishops Salvator Nobili Vitelleschi and Franciscus Xaverius Fredericus de Merode, Cardinal Sacconi consecrated on 30 June 1872:

Edward Henry Howard (1829-1892)
Cardinal (1877)
Assisted by Archbishop Alessandro Sanminiatelli Zabarella and Bishop Giulio Lenti, Cardinal Howard consecrated on 8 December 1882:

Mariano Rampolla, Marchese del Tindaro (1843-1913)
Cardinal (1887)
Assisted by Archbishops Antonio de Macedo Costa and Domingos Ferrata, Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro consecrated on 26 October 1890:

Joaquin Arcoverde de Albuquerque-Cavalcanti (1850-1930)
Cardinal (1905)
Assisted by Archbishop Francisco do Rêgo Maia and Bishop Juan Nepomucens Terrero y Escalada, Cardinal de Albuquerque-Cavalcanti consecrated on 4 June 1911:

Sebastião Leme da Silveira Cintra (1882-1942)
Titular Archbishop of Brazil (1921)
Assisted by Dom Alberto Jose Goncalves and Dom Benedito Paulo Alves de Souza, Dom da Silveira Cintra consecrated on 8 December 1924:

Carlos Duarte Costa (1888-1961)
Patriarch, Igreja Católica Apostólica Nacionais (1945)
Dom Carlos consecrated on 3 May 1948:
[certificate of consecration]
[photograph of consecration]

Luís Fernando Castillo Méndez (1922-2009)
Patriarch, Igreja Católica Apostólica Nacionais (1961)
Assisted by Dom Melquiades Rosa Garcia and Dom Bartolomeu Sebastião Vilela, both of Igreja Católica Apostólica Brasileira, Dom Castillo Méndez consecrated on 30 January 1985:

Forest Ernest Barber (1922-1992)
Bishop-Primate, Igreja Católica Apostólica Dominicana (1985)
Assisted by Archbishop-Primate Emile F. R. Fairfield, Iglesia Ortodóxa Católica Apostólica Méxicana, Bishop Paul G. W. Schultz, Iglesia Ortodóxa Católica Apostólica Méxicana and The Apostolic Episcopal Church, Dom Forest consecrated on 14 June 1987:
[instrument of consecration]

Nils Bertil Alexander Persson (Mar Alexander) (1941-)
Archbishop-Primate, The Apostolic Episcopal Church etc. (1986-98)
Assisted by Metropolitan-Archbishop-Primate Phillip Lewis, the Ethiopian Orthodox Coptic Church of North & South America & Europe, and Archbishop Paget E.J. Mack, AEC (acting as Commissary for the Primate, Archbishop Francis C. Spataro (Mar Timotheos III)), Mar Alexander consecrated and enthroned as AEC Archbishop of Great Britain on 23 November 2008:
[instrument of consecration]
[photograph of consecration]

8. Succession from the Roman Catholic Church via the Melkite Greek Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East

Petros Géha [Djaha] [Jeha] (Cyrillos VIII Géha) (1840-1916)
Patriarch, The Melkite-Greek Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East (1902)
Patriarch Cyrillos VIII consecrated on 5 February 1905:

Méléce Saouaya (Athanasios Sawoya, 1870-1919)
Archbishop, The Melkite-Greek Catholic Archdiocese of Beyrouth and Gebeil (1904)
Archbishop Sawoya consecrated on 9 October 1911:
[instrument of consecration]

Antoun Anid [Anthony Joseph Aneed] (Antonius Joseph I) (1879-1970)
Patriarch, The Byzantine Universal (Catholic) and Orthodox Church of the Americas (1945)
Assisted by Bishop Charles H. Hampton, former Bishop of The Liberal Catholic Church-Province of The United States of America, Archbishop-Primate Henry J. Kleefisch, The Byzantine Universal Orthodox Church and Archbishop-Primate Lowell P. Wadle, The American Catholic Church, Patriarch Aneed consecrated on 23 August 1945:

Nils Bertil Alexander Persson (Mar Alexander) (1941-)
Archbishop-Primate, The Apostolic Episcopal Church etc. (1986-98)
Assisted by Metropolitan-Archbishop-Primate Phillip Lewis, the Ethiopian Orthodox Coptic Church of North & South America & Europe, and Archbishop Paget E.J. Mack, AEC (acting as Commissary for the Primate, Archbishop Francis C. Spataro (Mar Timotheos III)), Mar Alexander consecrated and enthroned as AEC Archbishop of Great Britain on 23 November 2008:
[instrument of consecration]
[photograph of consecration]