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International Free Protestant Episcopal Church (FPEC)
Most Rev. Horst-Karl Block,DD,LLD,PhD - Xth Bishop Primus.
The General Synod on October 7th 2001 has adopted INTERNATIONAL to its name as counterpart of The International Free Protestant Episcopal University 1897. We want to be separated from every possible counterfeit, that has, or shall have, usurped its name from The Free Protestant Episcopal Church."
From their website: "This church was established in England on 2 November 1897 by a union of several small British episcopates that had been established in the 1870s in reaction to the rising Anglo-Catholicism of the mother Church of England. Our roots going back to the Armenian Catholic Church. The earliest accounts of the introduction of Christianity into Armenia date from the 1st century, when it was first preached by two Apostles of Jesus, St. Bartholomew and St. Thaddeus. The Armenian Apostolic Church has been in existence since the days of the apostles and therefore has a rightful claim as one of the oldest denominations in Christianity.
From their website: "This church was established in England on 2 November 1897 by a union of several small British episcopates that had been established in the 1870s in reaction to the rising Anglo-Catholicism of the mother Church of England. Our roots going back to the Armenian Catholic Church. The earliest accounts of the introduction of Christianity into Armenia date from the 1st century, when it was first preached by two Apostles of Jesus, St. Bartholomew and St. Thaddeus. The Armenian Apostolic Church has been in existence since the days of the apostles and therefore has a rightful claim as one of the oldest denominations in Christianity.
Apostolic Lineage Checkemian
The International Free Protestant Episcopal Church is an traditional Anglican church that follows the beliefs of the Church of England as defined by the Reformers of the Protestant Reformation in England starting with Thomas Cranmer, martyr, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1532 to 1556 and compiler of our Book of Common Prayer. Unlike some other Anglican jurisdictions, we explicitly accept the reform teaching of the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion in the sense that they were originally written. The historic expression of worship is preserved in the Book of Common Prayer. While changes have occurred over the past years, no changes could be made which changed the substance of the faith. Future revisions will also be subject to this provision. The Authorised King James Version of the Holy Bible is used in this Church. According to
Bishop Block in a contribution to this website (Nov. 10, 2001) the FPEC does ordain women.
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The Most Reverend Horst-Karl Friedrich Bishop Primus Block, DD, LLD, MCoT -
The Most Rev. Peter Leers,DD,LLD Bishop and Primate Coadjutor -
Diocese of the Ukrainian Christian Episcopal Church - Ukraine
The Most Rev. Alphonse Ndual, Yaounde, TIFPEC - Cameroon - Africa
Rt. Rev. A. Benjamin T.Towaye, BA, Christ Redemption Church, Clara Town, Monrovia-Liberia
with a membership about one hundred twenty presently...
Archbishop, Province of Rwanda
Col. C.D. Rev. Paul J. Tuz, Pastor & National Church Contact - Canada
Rt. Rev. C. E. Hubley, LLD, PhD, Saint John N.B. - Canada
Rt. Rev. M. Shaheen, DD,
Dioceses:- There are 13 Anglican Dioceses in India.
Amristar (Bishop Victor Somnath),
Kangazha (Bishop Lukose Varghese),
Maramon (Bishop John Thundukulam),
South Kerala (vacant),
High Range (Bishop Levy Jose Aikkara),
Travancore-Cochin Central (Bishop Kuruvilla C.Puthett),
North Tamil Nadu (Bishop Rajkumar),
South Tamil Nadu (vacant),
Delhi (Bishop Emmanuel Porter),
Haryana (Bishop D.E Singh),
Lucknow (Bishop Victor Kanam)
Secunderabad (Bishop Daniel Chelliah)
Chandigarh (Bishop Javed Masy).
All 12 bishops constitute the Synod of the Church which is the supreme body.
It was established in 1990
The Most Reverend Duraisingh James
International College of Archbishops
Archbishop for the Province and Diocese of INDIA
+Bishop Sumoward E. HARRIS, MONROVIA, Lutheran Church, Liberia
The Rt. Hon. Countess of Mayo, Edinburgh, Scotland
Nicholas Plunket-Checkemian, Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire UK
Earl Ralore-Oldham,Director Anglicans for Life,Queensborough Terrace, UK
Dr. Charles E. Stovall, National Christian University, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Texas, USA
Seine Exzellenz Bischof Riah Abu El-Assal, Bischöfliche Kirche in Jerusalem und dem Mittleren Osten
SeineExzellenz Bischof Munib Younan, Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche von Jordanien und Palästina
Archimandrit Mtanios Haddad, Griechisch-Katholisches (Melchitisches) Patriarchat, Jerusalem
Most Rev. Dr. Sebastião Mendes of Freitas, Bishop Primate Igreja Anglicana Reformada,
Sao Paulo, Brazil and TIFPEC Latin America
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STATE & US PROVINCES and Correspondent Members
Correspondent Members of TIFPEC
All the churches with the late Bishop Primus Dr Leon Checkemian and
Dr Charles Dennis Boltwood in their apostolic succession are consideret
as Correspondent Members of TIFPEC according to our Canon Law;
otherwise they should not mention my predecessors in their apostolic succession.
The Roman Catholic Church through the Order of Corporate Reunion (O.C.R.) (3)
+ Frederick George Lee, + Thomas Wimberley Mossman, and + John Thomas Seccombe:
to +Morgan, to +Stevens, to +Checkemian, to +MacLaglen, to +Herbert James Monzani-Heard, to +William Bernard Crow, to +Hugh George de Willmott Newman, to +Charles Dennis Boltwood, to +Horst-Karl Friedrich Xth Bishop Primus Block -TIFPEC
In our Ecumenical Church Foundation 1897, their should be a certain kind of diplomatic courtesy!
Each Communion recognizes the catholicity and independence of the other and maintains its own.
Each Communion agrees to admit members of the other Communion to participate in the Sacraments.
Full Communion does not require from either Communion the acceptance of all doctrinal opinion, sacramental devotion or liturgical practice characteristic of the other, but implies that each believes the other to hold all the essentials of the Christian faith.
NOTICE
Effective Immediately - April 13, 2006: All candidates for vocational incardination will submit to a thorough background investigation at their own expense.
A request for settlement by amicable arrangement should be standard in a christian church!
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St. Augustine was one of the early pillars of Christian philosophy. In his theology it is stated that because of the indelible character of a consecration, a validly consecrated Bishop permanently retains episcopal powers notwithstanding any schisms or ex-communications.
Hugh George de Willmott Newman, Mar Georgius I, Patriarch of Glastonbury, conducted extensive research and reconstructive history of the Church earlier this century, and published a work entitled “Successio Apostolica”. In this work he explains how he sought to discover, clarify, and reinstate many different lines of succession. Desiring to restore Orthodox Apostolic Catholicism of Undivided Christendom, he and those with him in the early days of his pontificate, became reconciled that all consecrations and ordinations of proven validity were equally efficacious regardless of any particular denomination or line of Apostolic Succession. He fortified the authenticity of Apostolic Succession by achieving Episcopal Consecrations in many authentic lines of succession. This brought into being an Ecumenical Apostolic Succession derived from every part of The One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.
I. SYRIAN - ANTIOCHENE
THE GOSPEL was first preached in Antioch in Syria by Jewish converts returning there from Jerusalem after the Day of Pentecost and afterwards by refugees who fled Jerusalem during the persecution at the time of the martyrdom of St. Stephen. Some years later, St. Barnabas fetched St. Paul from Tarsus and they went to Antioch, being called to the Apostleship: "And the disciples were called Christians first at Antioch" (Acts 11:26) then taking it to Rome and consecrated as his successor in Antioch, St. Evedius who was in turn succeeded by St. Ignatius, called "Theophoros." The 125th Patriarch of Antioch, counting from St. Peter, was Ignatius Jacobus II (1847-1872), upon whose instructions:
1. Mar Ignatius Peter in, Syrian-Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch, then Metropolitan of Emesa (Horns)on June 2, 1866, consecrated:
2. Raimond Ferrette, Mar Julius, Bishop of lona, who, on March 6, 1874, consecrated:
3. Richard Williams Morgan, Mar Pelagius I, First British Patriarch of the Patriarchate of Antioch, who on March 6, 1879, consecrated:
4. Charles Isaac Stevens, Mar Theophilus I, Second British Patriarch, who on May 4, 1890, consecrated:
5. Leon Checkemian, Mar Leon, Archbishop of Selsey, who on November 2, 1897, consecrated:
6. Andrew Charles Albert MacLaglen, Mar Andries, Fourth British Patriarch, who on June 4, 1922, consecrated:
7. Herbert James Monzani Heard, Mar Jacobus II, Fifth British Patriarch, who on June 13, 1943 consecrated:
8. William Bernard Crow, Mar Basilius Abdullah III, Patriarch of Antioch of the Ancient Orthodox Catholic Church, who on April 10, 1944, consecrated:
9. Hugh George de Willmott Newman, Mar Georgius I, Patriarch of Glastonbury, Catholicos of the West, Sixth British Patriarch, who on July 6, 1956, consecrated sub-condition by way of additional commission:
10. Charles Dennis Boltwood, who on March 26, 1972, consecrated:
11. Horst-Karl Friedrich Block, Diocesan Bishop of Liberia, W.A.
1980 Bishop Primus of THE INTERNATIONAL FREE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH
II. SYRIAN-MALABAR
THE APOSTLE St. Thomas and the indigenous Indian first preached Christianity in India Church was called "The Christians of St. Thomas." Being without a bishop, the St. Thomas Christians seceded in some numbers in 1665 and placed themselves under the jurisdiction of the Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch. The origin of which is given in Table I, from which See they received a hierarchy and were thereafter called the Syrian-Orthodox Church of Malabar, being under the jurisdiction of those Patriarchs of Antioch:
1. Moran Mar Ignatius Yacob II, Syrian Patriarch of Antioch, who on February 12, 1865, consecrated:
2. Joseph Pulikottil, Mar Dionysios V, Metropolitan of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, who on July 29, 1889, consecrated:
3. Antonio Francisco Xavenda Alvarez, Mar Julius, Archbishop of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church in Ceylon, Goa and India, who on May 29, 1892, consecrated:
4. Joseph Rene Vilatte, Mar Timotheos, Archbishop-Exarch of North America, who on December 29, 1915, consecrated:
5. Frederick Ebenezer John Lloyd, Bishop of Illinois, afterward Primate of the American Catholic Church, who on September 8, 1929, consecrated:
6. John Churchill Sibley, Missionary Archbishop for England, who on October 6, 1935, consecrated:
7. John Sebastian Marlow Ward, Archbishop of Olivet, who in August 25, 1945, consecrated:
8. Hugh George de Willmott Newman, Mar Georgius I, who on July 6, 1956, consecrated:
9. Charles Dennis Boltwood, who on March 26, consecrated:
10. Horst-Karl Friedrich Block, Diocesan Bishop of Liberia, W.A.
1980 Bishop Primus of THE INTERNATIONAL FREE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH
III. SYRIAN-GALLICAN
IN THE DISPUTE between Frances Third Republic and the Roman Catholic Church, Archbishop Villatte arrived at an understanding- with the French politicians in an attempt to rally the Gallican school of Roman Catholic thought and institute the Catholic Apostolic Gallican Church in opposition to Rome. Though that church did not thrive in France, it did survive.
1. Joseph Rene Vilatte, Mar Timotheos, on May 6, 1900, consecrated:
2. Paulo Miraglia Gullotti, Bishop of Piacenza, who on December 4, 1904, consecrated:
3. Ernest Louis Rene Houssay, Mar Julius, Metropolitan of the Gallican Catholic Church, who on June 21, 1911, consecrated:
4. Louis Marie Francois Giraud, Archbishop of Almyra, Gallican Patriarch, who on December 28, 1921, consecrated:
5. Pierre Gaston Vigue, who on June 3, 1924, consecrated:
6. Aloysius Stumpfl, Mar Timotheos II, Regionary Bishop of Aquileia, who on June 28, 1947, consecrated:
7. Charles Leslie Saul, Archbishop of Suthronia, Mar Leofric, who on July 14, 1947, consecrated:
8. Hugh George de Willmott Newman, Mar Georgius I, who on July 6, 1956, consecrated:
9. Charles Dennis Boltwood , who on March 26, 1972, consecrated:
10. Horst-Karl Friedrich Block, Diocesan Bishop of Liberia, W.A.
1980 Bishop Primus of THE INTERNATIONAL FREE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH
IV. SYRO-CHALDEAN
(Called Nestorian)
EAST SYRIA, Assyria, Persia and Mesopotamia were evangelized by St. Thomas the Apostle, assisted by St. Adai, one of the Seventy sent by Christ (Luke 10:1) and one of their disciples. Proceeding- from Palestine, they preached in those lands, and St. Thomas eventually reached India. The Metropolitan of Seleucia-Ctesiphon governed the Persian Church from its earliest days, the twin capitols of the Persian Empire, who was subject to the Patriarch of Antioch and of the East, but owing to difficulties of communication, the Patriarchal jurisdiction was delegated to the Metropolitan who was designated, "Catholicos of the East" (i.e. "holder of all") and Patriarch. The Syro-Chaldean Church (the official designation of the Catholicate of the East) at one time became the largest body of Christians in the world, extending throughout all Persia, Mesopotamia, India and China. It was eventually reduced to small numbers by the barbarian invaders. The Indian branch remained in communion with the Catholics until the Synod of Diamper in 1599, when the Latin missionaries forced the Indian Christians to sever their connection with the See of Seleucia- Ctesiphon and submit to Rome. As stated in Table II, a number of them effected a union with the Syrian-Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch in 1665 and were constituted as the Syrian Orthodox Church of Malabar. For some 250 years, though cut off from their historic center of jurisdiction, a faithful remnant was perpetuated, and it was not until 1862 that the Syro-Chaldean jurisdiction in India was restored; and in this manner:
1. His Sacred Beatitude, Maram Mar Rowell Shimun XVIII, Reuben, Patriarch of Seleucia-Ctesiphon and Catholicos of the East, who on December 17, 1862, consecrated:
2. Anthony Thondanatt, Mar Abd Ishu, Metropolitan of Trichur, who on Jul 24,1899, consecrated:
3. Luis Mariano Scares, Mar Basileus, Metropolitan of India, Ceylon, Mylapore, Socotra and Messina, who on November 30, 1902, consecrated:
4. Ulric Vemon Herford, Mar Jacobus, Bishop of Mercia and Middlesex, who on February 28, 1925, consecrated:
5. William Stanley McBean Knight, Mar Paulus, Bishop of Kent, who on October 18, 1931, consecrated:
6. Hedley Coward Bartlett, Bishop of Siluria, who on May 20, 1945, consecrated:
7. Hugh George de Willmott Newman, Mar Georgius I, who on July 6, 1956, consecrated:
8. Charles Dennis Boltwood, who on who on March 26, 1972, consecrated:
9. Horst-Karl Friedrich Block, Diocesan Bishop of Liberia, W.A.
1980 Bishop Primus of THE INTERNATIONAL FREE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH
V. CHALDEAN-UNITIATE
IN 1445, A SECTION of the Syro-Chaldean Church (Table IV) resident in Cyprus entered into union with Rome and Pope Eugenius IV threatened with ex-communion anyone who dared to continue to call them "Nestorienas." In 1552, owing to a contested patriarchal election, a division took place in the main body in their homelands and part seceded to Rome. Pope Julius VI invested their leader, John Sulaka, as Uniate Patriarch on April 20, 1553. However, his eventual successor. Mar Shimun XIII repudiated the union with Rome in 1662 and is the predecessor of the Syro- Chaldean Patriarchs from then until the present time. A group remaining in communion with Rome were for some years governed by a line of Patriarchs all bearing the name of Joseph, but on July 5, 1830, Pope Pius VIII suppressed the Josephite line and declared John VIII Homez to be Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans and as such, head of the Chaldean-Uniate Rite, of which:
1. Petrus Elia XIV, Abu-Al-Yunan, Patriarch of Babylon for the Chaldean Catholic Church, on July 24, 1892, consecrated:
2. Yosif Khayatt, Maran Mar Yosif Emmanuel II Thomas, Patriarch of Babylon for the Chaldean Catholic Church on May 27. 1917, consecrated:
3. Antoine Lefbeme, Special Commissariat (Legate), who on May 4, 1925, consecrated:
4. Albert Wolfert Brooks, Mar John Emmanuel, Titular Bishop of Sardis, afterwards Titular Archbishop of Ebbsfleet and Administrator of the Metropolitan Synod of the Apostolic Episcopal Church of the USA, who on November 16, 1934, consecrated:
5. Charles William Keller, who on April 29, 1945, consecrated:
6. Hugh George de Willmott Newman, Mar Georgius I, who on July 6, 1956, consecrated:
7. Charles Dennis Boltwood, who on March 26, 1972, consecrated:
8. Horst-Karl Friedrich Block, Diocesan Bishop of Liberia, W.A.
1980 Bishop Primus of THE INTERNATIONAL FREE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH
VI. COPTIC-ORTHODOX
ANCIENT TRADITION points to Alexandria, where there was a large colony of Jews as the scene of the Missionary activities of St. Mark the Evangelist. The APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTIONS (VIII, 46) tells us that he consecrated one Anienus as the first Bishop of Alexandria and that St. Luke the Evangelist consecrated the second of that See, Abilios. The Gospel spread rapidly throughout Egypt of which Alexandria became the Primatial See, being subsequently raised to the dignity of a Patriarchate, ranking third in order next after Rome and Constantinople. Despite severe Moslem persecutions, and today sadly shorn of its former strength, the Coptic-Orthodox Church has managed to continue its existence down to our own times and owing to the presence of numerous Africans in the USA, established a mission there, under:
1. Archbishop St. John-the-Divine Hickersayon, who on May 27, 1947, consecrated:
2. Davison Quartey Arthur, Mar Lukos, Bishop of Lagos, Accra and Trinidad. who on February 19, 1951, consecrated:
3. Hugh George de Willmott Newman, Mar Georgius I, who on July 6, 1956, consecrated:
4. Charles Dennis Boltwood, who on March 26, 1972, consecrated:
5. Horst-Karl Friedrich Block, Diocesan Bishop of Liberia, W.A.
1980 Bishop Primus of THE INTERNATIONAL FREE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH
VII. ARMENIAN-UNIATE
THE ORIGINAL FOUNDATION of the Holy Apostolic Church of Armenia may be traced to Sts. Thaddeus and Eustatius (two of the Seventy). The honor of converting the Armenians, as a nation, to Christ, was gained by St. Gregory the Diuminator, who is 302 was consecrated Archbishop of Etchmiadzme by St. Leontius Exarch of Caesarea in Cappadocia, originally within the Patriarchate of Antioch, and afterward within that of Constantinople. In 364, the Armenian church was granted full autonomy as an autocephalous catholicate within the One Holy and Apostolic Church under the Patriarch of Etchmiadzine, Supreme Catholicos of all the Armenians. In the 12th century, some of the Armenians began to contemplate union with Rome and the Catholicos was present as a guest of honor at the Latin Council of Antioch C1141) and later, at the Council of Florence (1439), formal union was proclaimed; but it remained a dead letter. From 1701 attempts were made to found a Uniate body and in 1712, a line of Patriarchs of Cihcia of the Armenians was inaugurated by Rome in the person of Peter Abraham I, from which time the Armenian-Uniate Church has continued to this day. During the reign of the Patriarch, Antonios Peter DC (Hassun):
1. Archbishop Chorchorunian on April 23, 1878. consecrated:
2. Leon Checkemian, Mar Leon, who on November 2, 1987, consecrated:
3. Andrew Charles Albert MacLaglan, Mar Andries, Fourth British Patriarch, who on June 4, 1922, consecrated:
4. Herbert James Monzani Heard, Mar Jacobus II, Fifth British Patriarch, who on June 13, 1943, consecrated:
5. William Bernard Crow, Mar Basilius Abdullah III. Patriarch of Antioch of the Ancient Orthodox Catholic Church, who on April 10, 1944, consecrated:
6. Hugh George de Willmott Newman, Mar Georgius I, who on July 6, 1956, consecrated:
7. Charles Dennis Boltwood, who on March 26, 1972, consecrated:
8. Horst-Karl Friedrich Block, Diocesan Bishop of Liberia, W.A.
1980 Bishop Primus of THE INTERNATIONAL FREE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH
VIII. GREEK MELKITE UNIATE CHURCH
THE WORD "Melkite" is derived from the Semitic word "meiek," meaning, "king" and literally means "royalists." Those known by that name are so called because in the disputes around the time of the council of Chalcedon (451) they followed the Emperor in repudiating the Monophysite heresy, and in denouncing the occupants of the Antiochene and Alexandrian Patriarchates as Monophysites. In most cases this is a matter of grave doubt. However, the cause of the Melkites was espoused by the Byzantine Patriarchate. They attached themselves loyally, and in the Great Schism of 1054 remained among the eastern churches. In 1686, under their Patriarch Athanasius IV of Antioch, they submitted to Rome and have since continued as the Greek Melkite Uniate Church. In the twentieth century, quite a number fled from Turkish persecution and from the troubles of the two World Wars to the United States. In the meantime, (c 1911) whose who had already migrated here were visited by:
1. Athanasios Sawoya, Greek Melkite Archbishop of Beyrouth and Gebeil in Syria, who on October 9, 1911, consecrated:
2. Antoine Joseph Aneed, Exarch of the Greek Melkite Rite in the USA. Both bishops were in full communion with Rome. Bishop Aneed, thereafter, on July 28, 1946, consecrated:
3. Odo Acheson Barry, Mar Columba, Titular Archbishop of Canada, who on July 17, 1955, consecrated:
4. Hugh George de Willmott Newman, Mar Georgius I, who on July 6, 1956, consecrated:
5. Charles Dennis Boltwood, who on March 26, 1972, consecrated:
6. Horst-Karl Friedrich Block, Diocesan Bishop of Liberia, W.A.
1980 Bishop Primus of THE INTERNATIONAL FREE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH
IX. RUSSIAN ORTHODOX
ACCORDING TO ancient tradition, the Apostle St. Andrew first preached the Gospel in Russia and planted a cross at Kiev. Missionaries from Constantinople, however, accomplished the actual conversion of the Russian people. In 867 and in 988 St. Vladimir, Grand Prince of Kiev, ordered the nation to become Christian. In 1589, Jeremiah H, Patriarch of Constantinople, raised Job, Metropolitan of Moscow, to the Patriarchal dignity and thus the Patriarchate of Moscow came into being. This authority was suppressed by Peter the Great, Czar of Russia, in 1721 (with the consent of the Oriental Patriarchs) and restored again in 1917 by Patriarch Aikkon, who was afterward imprisoned by the Bolsheviks and was for some years represented by:
1. Ivan Nikolaevich Stragorodskij, Metropolitan of Nizhni-Novgorod, afterward Sergij, Patriarch of Moscow. In 1918, at Harbin, Russia, (or Irkutsk, in 1917) under a "Canon of Necessity," he consecrated:
2. Henry Joseph Kleefish, who on July 29, 1946, consecrated:
3. Odo Acheson Barry, Mar Columba, who on July 17, 1955, consecrated:
4. Hugh George de Willmott Newman, Mar Georgius I, who on July 6, 1956, consecrated:
5. Charles Dennis Boltwood, who on March 26, 1972, consecrated:
6. Horst-Karl Friedrich Block, Diocesan Bishop of Liberia, W.A.
1980 Bishop Primus of THE INTERNATIONAL FREE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH
X. OLD CATHOLIC
(ENGLISH LINE)
SHORTLY AFTER the outbreak of World War I, RUDOLPHE Francois Edouard de Gramant Hamilton de Brabant, His Serene Highness, Prince de Landas Berghes et de Rache et Duc de St. Winnock, Archbishop of the Old Roman Catholic Church decided that it was necessary to make arrangements for the safeguarding of the succession and called upon his priests to elect a suitable candidate for the Episcopate. They elected the Reverend Frederick Willoughby, a former Anglican Clergyman, who was duly consecrated as recorded below, but whose connection with the Old Catholic Church in Great Britain was formally terminated on May 19, 1915 and he eventually submitted to Rome. Archbishop Mathew died on December 20, 1919, by which time the movement had become known as The Old Roman Catholic Church in Great Britain. Thereafter a more pro-Roman policy was adopted. In 1914 a decision was made to restore the original Old Catholic as distinct from Old Roman Catholic basis and the following line of succession came into being:
1. Arnold Harris Mathew, who on October 28, 1914, consecrated:
2. Frederick Samuel Willoughby, who on July 9, 1922, consecrated:
3. James Bartholomew Banks, James I. Sovereign Primate and Primate of The Service Church, who on May 28,1940 consecrated:
4. Sidney Ernest Page Needham, who on January 4, 1945, consecrated:
5. Hugh George de Willmott Newman, Mar Georgius I, who on July 6, 1956, consecrated:
6. Charles Dennis Boltwood, who on March 26, 1972, consecrated:
7. Horst-Karl Friedrich Block, Diocesan Bishop of Liberia, W.A.
1980 Bishop Primus of THE INTERNATIONAL FREE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH
XI. NON - JURORING
IN 1688, AT THE TIME of the Glorious Revolution in England, there was a group of clergymen who refused to break their oath of allegiance to James II in order to take the oath to William III. Thereby they earned for themselves the name of Non-jurors. They upheld the principles of hereditary succession and the divine right of kings, and their refusal to recognize William as king led to their removal from office. In 1690 they were joined by a number of Scottish clergymen who were unwilling to accept the establishment of Presbyterianism in Scotland. Ultimately, their numbers dwindled, and the Non-jurors faded from the scene in the early 19th century. Their succession continues most notably through Samuel Seabury, first bishop in the Protestant Episcopal Church.
1. Mario Antonio de Dominis, Archbishop of Spalato, on December 14, 1617, consecrated:
2. George Monteig-ne, Bishop of Lincoln, afterwards Bishop of London, who on November 18, 1621, consecrated:
3. William Laud, Bishop of St. Davids, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, who on June 17, 1638, consecrated:
4. Brian Duppa, Bishop of Chichester, who on October 18, 1660, consecrated:
5. Gilbert Sheldon, Bishop of London, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, who on December 6, 1674, consecrated:
6. Henry Compton, Bishop of Oxford, later of London, who on January 27, 1677, consecrated:
7. William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury, who on October 25, 1685, consecrated:
8. Thomas White, Bishop of Peterborough, who on January 24, 1693, consecrated:
9. George Hickes, Suffragan Bishop of Thetford, later Primus of the English Non-jurors, who on February 24, 1712, consecrated:
10. Thomas Rattray, Bishop of Dunkeld, who on September 10, 1784, consecrated:
11. William Falconer, Bishop of Caithness, who on September 21. 1712, consecrated:
12. Robert Kilgour, Bishop of Aberdeen, who on November 14, 1768, consecrated:
13. Samuel Seabury, Bishop of Connecticut, who on September 17, 1792, consecrated:
14. Thomas J. Claggett, Bishop of Maryland, who on May 7, 1797, consecrated:
15. Edward Bass, Bishop of Massachusetts, who on May 7, 1797. consecrated:
16. Abraham Jarvis, Bishop of Connecticut, who on May 29. 1811, consecrated:
17. John H. Hopkins, Bishop co-adjutor of New York, who on October 25. 1827, consecrated:
18. Henry U. Onderdonk, Bishop of Pennsylvania, who on July 7, 1836, consecrated:
19. Samuel A. McCoskry, Bishop of Michigan, who on December 8, 1875. consecrated:
20. William E. McLaren, Bishop of Chicago, who on June 24. 1898, consecrated:
21. William Montgomery Brown, Bishop of Arkansas, who on January 2, 1927, consecrated:
22. Wallace David de Ortega Maxey, who on June 5, 1946, consecrated sub- conditione by way of additional commission:
23. Charles Leslie Saul, who on August 1,1946, consecrated sub-conditione by way of additional commission:
24. Hugh George de Willmott Newman, Mar Georgius I. who on July 6, 1956, consecrated:
25. Charles Dennis Boltwood, who on March 26, 1972, consecrated:
26. Horst-Karl Friedrich Block, Diocesan Bishop of Liberia, W.A.
1980 BishopPrimus of THE INTERNATIONAL FREE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH
XII. ROMAN CATHOLIC, SYRO-CHALDEAN RITE
WHEN Anthony Thondanatt accepted consecration from the Nestorian Patriarch Maram Mar Rowell Shimun XVIII, (Table IV) his action severed him from communion with Rome. However, after three years his relationship with Rome was restored. Ultimately, he was re-consecrated, as follows:
1. Hanna Sahhar, Mar Elia Johannan Mellus, of the Chaldean Catholic Church, on March 5, 1882, consecrated:
2. Anthony Thondanatt, Mar Abd Ishu, Metropolitan of Trichur, who on July 24, 1899, consecrated:
3. Luis Mariano Soares, Mar Basileus, who on November 30, 1902, consecrated:
4. Ulric Vernon Herford, Mar Jacobus, who on February 28, 1925, consecrated:
5. William Stanley McBean Knight, Mar Paulus, who on October 18,1931, consecrated:
6. Hedley Coward Bartlett, who on May 20, 1945, consecrated:
7. Hugh George de Willmott Newman, Mar Georgius I, who on July 6, 1956, consecrated:
8. Charles Dennis Boltwood, who on March 26, 1972, consecrated:
9. Horst-Karl Friedrich Block, Diocesan Bishop of Liberia, W.A.
1980 BishopPrimus of THE INTERNATIONAL FREE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH
XIII. ROMAN CATHOLIC / CORPORATE REUNION
THE DISPUTE over the validity of Anglican orders produced a desire among some in the Church of England for orders that Rome would be compelled to acknowledge as valid. This desire led to a clandestine attempt to secure indisputable orders for the English clergy. Two priests from the Church of England and one Englishman from the Syrian Patriachate were consecrated in a service that was kept secret, apparently to protect the consecrator. They were Frederick George Lee and Thomas Wimberley Mossman, both Anglican priests, and John Thomas Seccombe, who had been ordained by Ferrette. Subsequently, the three reportedly re-ordained a number of Anglican priests. They called their effort the Order of Corporate Reunion. However, because the effort did not bear the official sanction of the Church of England, and because it seemed intended to manipulate the Roman Church into giving recognition to Anglican orders, the movement failed. The orders conferred, however, were recognized as valid:
1. Ugo Pietro Spinola, a Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church, on June 6,1847, consecrated:
2. Luigi Nazari, subsequently Archbishop of Milano, who in the summer of 1877 consecrated:
3. Frederick George Lee, Thomas Wimberley Mossman and John Thomas Seccombe, for the Order of Corporate Reunion; who, with Richard Williams Morgan, on March 6, 1879, consecrated:
4. Charles Isaac Stevens, Mar Theophilus I, Second British Patriarch of the Patriarchate of Antioch, who on May 4, 1890, consecrated:
5. Leon Checkemian, Mar Leon, who on November 2, 1897, consecrated:
6. Andrew Charles Albert McLaglen, Mar Andries, who on June 4, 1922, consecrated:
7. Herbert James Monzani Heard, Mar Jacobus, who on June 13, 1943, consecrated:
8. William Bernard Crow, Mar Basilius Abdullah III, who on April 10, 1944, consecrated:
9. Hugh George de Willmott Newman, Mar Georgius I, who on July 6, 1956, consecrated:
10. Charles Dennis Boltwood, who on March 26, 1972, consecrated:
11. Horst-Karl Friedrich Block, Diocesan Bishop of Liberia, W.A.
1980 BishopPrimus of THE INTERNATIONAL FREE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH
XIV. ANGLICAN/REFORMED EPISCOPAL
THE REFORMED EPISCOPAL CHURCH was founded in Philadelphia on December 2, 1873, by Bishop George David Cummins, formerly the Assistant Bishop of Kentucky in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the USA. On December 14, 1873, Cummins consecrated:
1. Charles Edward Cheney, who on June 22, 1879, consecrated:
2. Alfred Spencer Richardson, who on May 4, 1890, consecrated:
3. Leon Checkemian, who on November 2, 1897, consecrated:
4. Andrew Charles Albert MacLaglen, Mar Andries, who on June 4, 1922, consecrated:
5. Herbert James Monzani Heard, Mar Jacobus, who on June 13, 1943, consecrated:
6. William Bernard Crow, Mar Basilius Abdullah III, who on April 10, 1944, consecrated:
7. Hugh George de Willmott Newman, Mar Georgius I, who on July 6, 1956, consecrated:
8. Charles Dennis Boltwood, who on March 26, 1972, consecrated:
9. Horst-Karl Friedrich Block, Diocesan Bishop of Liberia, W.A.
1980 BishopPrimus of THE INTERNATIONAL FREE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Note: the orders and succession of De Willmott-Newman were investigated in 1954 by a panel of Catholic scholars chaired by the late Yves Congar.
( Yves-Marie- Joseph Kardinal Congar OP (* 8. April 1904 in Sedan, Frankreich; † 22. Juni 1995 in Paris) war ein Theologe und Kardinal der römisch-katholischen Kirche. )
They were pronounced a "valid succession of orders". The panel found that the Apostolic Succession had been sustained.
In 1712 a line of Patriarchs arose in Cilicia and was inaugurated by Rome in the person of Peter Abraham I, from which time the Armenian Uniate Church continues to this day.
During the reign of Patriarch Antonios Peter IX (Hassun), Archbishop Leon Chorchorunian was consecrated to the Armenian Uniate Patriarchate and the Alexandrine Patriarchates of the Monophysites. He consecrated Leon Checkemian, First Archbishop of The Free Protestant Church of England, 2 November 1897 .
Several churches worldwide mention our first Bishop Primus Leon Checkemian, and the eight Bishop Primus Charles Dennis Boltwood in their apostolic succession, but they lack religious and diplomatic courtesies to extend some cordial greetings to the Xth Bishop Primus of THE INTERNATIONAL FREE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
We will consider them all as Correspondent Members of TIFPEC.
The high point of the FPEC was when it obtained recognition by the British Government as a legally constiuted denomination. The officiating magistrate gave his decision that the Clergy are lawfully ordained minister of a legally constituted Episcopal Church, and therefore in Holy Orders within the meaning of the Act. His Worship arrived at this conclusion after investigating the origin of the Orders of the Church and the services used for ordinations and consecrations which are based on the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.
Board of the Lindisfarne Community:
The Abbot,The Rt. Rev. Andrew Fitz-Gibbon, PhD, LC
The Abbess, The Rt. Rev Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon, LC
The Prioress, The Rev. Christine Davie, LC
The Prior, The Rev. John Finn, MS, LC
The Rev. Christine Davie, LC
The Rev. Marian Parker, LC
The Warden, Kenneth J. Parker, LC
Council of Elders:
The Board and all presbyter/priests
Advisers:
The Most Rev. Wayne Boosahda, The Communion of Convergence Churches
The Most Rev. Joseph Grenier, The Celtic Christian Church
Most Rev. Edwin Duane Follick, DD,PhD,Th.D., La Puente
Rev. F.C. King,DD,PhD, Hollywood
Rev. K. King,DD,PhD, Hollywood
NEW
The Most Reverend Robert Wise
International College of Archbishops
Archbishop for theProvince of St. Joseph of Arimathea (Canada, U.K. Eastern Europe)
and Diocese of St. Joseph of Arimathea
Okahoma City, OK, USA
The Most Reverend Michael Owen
International College of Archbishops
Chaplain for The International College of Archbishops
Archbishop for theProvince of Christ the King
Okahoma City, OK, USA
The Most Reverend Russell McClanahan
Presiding Archbishop of the CEEC
Archbishop for the Extra-Territorial Province of St. Peter
and Archdiocese of the Holy CrossMemphis, TN, USA
Dr. Charles E. Stovall, National Christian University, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Texas, USA
Rev.E. Coulter,DST, Hopewell
GLOBAL PROVINCES
The Rt. Rev. Alphonse Ndual, Yaounde, Cameroon - Africa
Rev. A. Gordon Bennett, M.Th.
Dr. R.A. Patterson, D. Ps.,
Most Revd Matthew J.C. Tuz,D.D., Toronto, ON M5P 2W6 - Metropolitan Canada
Col. C.D. Rev. Dr. Paul J. Tuz, Pastor & National Church Contact - Canada
Dr. Paul J. Tuz, Honorary Consul General,Consulate General of the Republic of Mali
Rt. Rev. C. E. Hubley, LLD, PhD, Saint John N.B.
Rt. Rev. M. Shaheen, DD,
Rt. Rev. J. T. Fernandez Jane,Havana
1960- 65, St. Andrews Correspondence College Tottenham Ltd, London GB
Bishop Primus TIFPEC Horst-Karl Friedrich Block,DD,LLD, 1980 de jure -
The Rt. Rev. Peter Leers, DD, Bishop Primus Coadjutor
Adviser to the Bishop Primus: Wolfgang Wesemann
Public Relation: Hans Robert Neber, Viersen
Legal Adviser: RA Horst Peter Grossmann, Nettetal
T.K. Adams,B.Sc., Hamburg
Dr. H.P. Sauerwald, D.Litt., Hamburg
G.S. Bridgewater, B.Sc., M.Ps., Erlangen
Rev. S. A. Oduwale, DD,PhD, Ilorin
Baber Chowk, Faisalabad 38090
SIERRA LEONE
Apostolic Delegate Bishop Nickolay Troyan
Diocese of the Ukrainian Christian Episcopal Church
ZAMBIA- Central Africa
Rt.Rev. Able Mwambela,10101 Kitwe
The General Synod on October 7th 2001 has adopted INTERNATIONAL to its name as counterpart of The International Free Protestant Episcopal University 1897. We want to be separated from every possible counterfeit, that has, or shall have, usurped its name from
From their website: "This church was established in England on 2 November 1897 by a union of several small British episcopates that had been established in the 1870s in reaction to the rising Anglo-Catholicism of the mother Church of England. ... The International Free Protestant Episcopal Church is an traditional Anglican church that follows the beliefs of the Church of England as defined by the Reformers of the Protestant Reformation in England starting with Thomas Cranmer, martyr, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1532 to 1556 and compiler of our Book of Common Prayer. Unlike some other Anglican jurisdictions, we explicitly accept the reform teaching of the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion in the sense that they were originally written. The historic expression of worship is preserved in the Book of Common Prayer. While changes have occurred over the past years, no changes could be made which changed the substance of the faith. Future revisions will also be subject to this provision. The Authorised King James Version of the Holy Bible is used in this Church." According to Bishop Primus Block in a contribution to this website (Nov. 10, 2001) the FPEC does ordain women.
The Episcopal Church in Jerusalem & the Middle East
Bishop Riah, the Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem, on the current crisis in the Middle East
Dear Friends,
For the past forty years we have been largely alone on this desert fighting a predator that not only has robbed us of all but a small piece of our historic homeland, but threatens the traditions and holy sites of Christianity. We are tired, weary, sick, and wounded. We need your help.
We have seen and we have been the recipients of the generosity of our American and British friends. We cherish the support of everyone throughout the world who stands with us in solidarity. Daily, I hear from many of them who express outrage at the arrogant and aggressive positions of President Bush, Secretary Rice, Senator Clinton, and Prime Minister Blair. I am saddened to realise just how much the deserved prestige of the United States and Britain has declined as a result of politicians who seem to devalue human life and suffering. And, I am disturbed that the Zionist Christian community is damaging America’s image as never before.
Little more than a week ago, we were focused on the plight of the Palestinian people. In Gaza, four and five generations have been victims of Israeli racism, hate crimes, terror, violence, and murder. Garbage and sewage have created a likely outbreak of cholera as Israeli strategies create the collapse of infrastructures. There is no milk. Drinking water, food, and medicine are in serious short supply. Innocents are being killed and dying from lack of available emergency care. Children are paying the ultimate price. Even for those whose lives are spared, many of them are traumatised and will not grow to live useful lives. Commerce between the West Bank and Gaza has been halted and humanitarian aid barely trickles into some of the neediest in the world.
Movement of residents of the West Bank is difficult or impossible as “security measures” are heightened to break the backs of the Palestinian people and cut them off from their place of work, schools, hospitals, and families. It is family and community that has sustained these people during these hopeless times. For some, it is all that they had, but that too has been taken away with the continued building of the wall and check points. The strategy of ethnic cleansing on the part of the State of Israel continues.
This week, war broke out on the Lebanon-Israeli border (near Banyas where Jesus gave St. Peter the keys to heaven and earth). The Israeli government’s disproportionate reaction to provocation was consistent with their opportunistic responses in which they destroy their perceived enemy.
In her recent article, “The Insane Brutality of the State of Israel,” American, Kathleen Christison, a former CIA analyst says, “The state lashes out in a crazed effort, lacking any sense of proportion, to reassure itself of its strength.” She continues, “A society that can brush off as unimportant an army officer’s brutal murder of a thirteen year old girl on the claim that she threatened soldiers at a military post (one of nearly seven hundred Palestinian children murdered by Israelis since the Intifada began) is not a society with a conscience.” The “situation” as it has come to be called, has deteriorated into a war without boundaries or limitations. It is a war with deadly potential beyond the imaginations of most civilized people.
As I write to you, I am preparing to leave with other bishops for Nablus with medical and other emergency supplies for five hundred families, and a pledge for one thousand families more.
On Saturday we will attempt to enter Gaza with medical aid for doctors and nurses in our hospital there who struggle to serve the injured, the sick, and the dying.
My plan is that I will be able to go to Lebanon next week - where we are presently without a resident priest - to bury the dead, and comfort the victims of war. Perhaps as others have you will ask, “What can I do?” Certainly we encourage and appreciate your prayers. That is important, but it is not enough. If you find that you can no longer look away, take up your cross. It takes courage as we were promised.
Write every elected official you know. Write to your news media. Speak to your congregation, friends, and colleagues about injustice and the threat of global war. If Syria, Iran, the United States, Great Britain, China and others enter into this war - the consequence is incalculable. Participate in rallies and forums. Find ways that you and your churches can participate in humanitarian relief efforts for the region. Contact us and
let us know if you stand with us. I urge you not to be like a disciple watching from afar.
2 Corinthians 6.11
“ We have spoken frankly to you Corinthians, our heart is wide open to you. There is no restriction in our affections, but only in yours. In return - I speak as to children - open wide your hearts also.”
In, with, and through Christ,
The Rt. Rev. Riah H. Abu El-Assal
Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem
My heart aches. I say why are our memories so short. Have our
Jewish sisters and brothers forgotten their humiliation? Have they forgotten the collective punishment, the home demolitions, in their own history so soon? Have they turned their backs on their profound and noble religious traditions? Have they forgotten that God cares deeply about the downtrodden?"We control America"
"Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Dont worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it."
- Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, October 3, 2001.
Oberhäupter einiger christlicher Konfessionen
| Oberhäupter einiger christlicher Konfessionen | |||||
| Konfession | Oberhaupt | Erstes Oberhaupt | Aktuelles Oberhaupt | Anzahl | Apost. Sukzession |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Katholische Kirche | Papst | Simon Petrus | Benedikt XVI. | 265 | Ja |
| Orthodoxe Kirchen | Patriarch von Konstantinopel (nur Ehrenvorsitz) | Apostel Andreas | Bartholomäus I. | 273 | Ja |
| Anglikanische Kirchengemeinschaft | Erzbischof von Canterbury | Thomas Cranmer | Rowan Douglas Williams | 35 | Umstritten |
| Koptische Kirche | Papst | Johannes Markus | Shenouda III. | 116 | Ja |
| Syrisch-Orthodoxe Kirche | Patriarch | Simon Petrus | Ignatius Zakka I. Iwas | 122 | Ja |
| Armenische Apostolische Kirche | Patriarch | Judas Thaddäus | Karekin II. | 152 | Ja |
| Assyrische Kirche | Patriarch | Apostel Thomas | Dinkha IV. Khanania | 115 | Ja |
| Neuapostolische Kirche | Stammapostel | Friedrich Krebs | Wilhelm Leber | 8 | Nein |
| Kirche Jesu Christi der Heiligen der Letzten Tage | Präsident | Joseph Smith | Gordon B. Hinckley | 15 | Nein |
Apostolicae Curae
aus Wikipedia, der freien Enzyklopädie
In dem Apostolischen Schreiben Apostolicae Curae vom 13. September 1896 analysiert Papst Leo XIII. die Riten der Anglikanischen Kirche für die Bischofs- und Priesterweihe. In seiner Entscheidung stellt er die Ungültigkeit der Weihen aus römisch-katholischer Sicht fest und behauptet damit die Unterbrechung der apostolischen Sukzession innerhalb der anglikanischen Kirche. Dieses Schreiben wurde von den Erzbischöfen von Canterbury und York mit dem Schreiben "Saepius Officio" vom 19. Februar 1897 beantwortet. Darin weisen sie auf frühchristlichen Liturgien hin, die ebenfalls die gleichen vermeintlichen Mängel aufweisen, die von Leo XIII. beanstandet werden, und weisen seine Behauptung in Bezug auf die Ungültigkeit ihrer Weihen zurück.
Additional information and Comments
His Eminence Archbishop and Bishop Primus Horst-Karl Friedrich Block (October 23, 1936, Ruppertsgrün, Bavaria, Germany-Alive). Archbishop and 10th Bishop Primus, International Free Protestant Episcopal Church. Psychotherapist, 1992. Deacon, International Free Protestant Episcopal Church, March, 1968. Ordained Priest, December, 1968. Titular Bishop of Edessa and Melitene, 1971. Bishop for the Diocese of West Africa, March 26, 1972. Presiding bishop of France and Germany. Archbishop and 10th Bishop Primus, 1980-Current. The Free Protestant Episcopal Church was founded on November 2, 1897, by several small British episcopates seeking to sustain traditional Anglicanism against Anglo-Catholicism. Archbishop Block was elected Bishop Primus to replace the designated successor of the 8th Bishop Primus, who presided over the church for a brief period in 1979.
Beginnings to 1922 As most church historians know, the first group of episcopal governed Anglicans to separate from the Church of England were the Non-jurors who existed from 1689 to 1805 when the last of their bishops died without a successor. These very devout people initially left the mother church over maintaining their allegiance to the Royal House of Stuart after the Glorious Revolution of 1688. They were traditional High Churchmen, but over time became interested in the Eastern Orthodox Churches and adopted several practices of those churches. Indeed, towards the end of the Non-jurors existence they had started to refer to themselves as the remnant of the Ancient British Church or the Orthodox British Church. On 6 June 1866 a former French Roman Catholic missionary priest, Raymond Ferrette (1828 to 1904), was consecrated a bishop, with the religious name of Mar Julius, under the authority of the Syrian Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and was sent to England to initiate an indigenous and autonomous Orthodox Church as a step towards reunion between western and eastern Christians. On 6 March 1874 at Marholm, Northants, England he consecrated the Revd Richard Williams Morgan (1815 to 1899), a clergyman in the Church of England, as the native British bishop in this plan. Bishop Morgan, taking the religious name of Mar Pelagius I, re-established the Ancient British Church, while continuing his duties as an Anglican clergyman and as a historian of note. Exactly five years later, on 6 March 1879 he consecrated his successor as head of this church, the Revd Charles Isaac Stevens (1835 to 1917), a former presbyter of the Reformed Episcopal Church in the United States of America who had moved to England. Bishop Stevens took the religious name of Mar Theophilus I. It is interesting to note that Bishop Stevens co-consecrators were bishops in the Order of Corporate Reunion - a body of independent clergy who wanted the Church of England to reunite with the Roman Catholic Church! One of the co-consecrators was Dr. Frederick George Lee, who was a literal descendant of the Non-juroring bishop Dr. Timothy Newmarsh who had been consecrated in 1726. This Ancient British Church was to revive the high church and liturgical principles of the former Non-jurors in opposition to the Anglo-Catholicism that was sparked within the Church of England by the beginnings of the Oxford Movement in 1833. Meantime, in 1873 the Nazarene Episcopal Church was founded by the Revd James Martin (1843 to 1919) who established his headquarters at Flaxman Road, Loughborough Junction, London, S.E.5. This church body followed a Methodist piety tradition. Sometime between 1879 and 1888 it received episcopal succession when Bishop Alfred Spencer Richardson of the Reformed Episcopal Church of England consecrated Dr. Martin. In 1890 Bishop Martin founded Nazarene College to serve as the seminary of his jurisdiction. In 1885, while he served as a priest for the Armenian Catholic Church community - a church body in union with the Roman Catholic Church - in Constantinople (from 1881 to 1885), Bishop Leon Checkemian (1848 to 1920) through contacts with Anglicans, converted to Reform Protestantism and resolved to emigrate to England. Dr. Checkemian had earlier served as an assistant bishop (from 1878 to 1881) for his ethnic group in Malatia (his birthplace), Asia Minor, having received consecration on 23 April 1878 from Armenian Catholic Archbishop Leon Chorchorunian (1822 to 1897). As a newcomer he at first found work as a common labourer in order to survive and studied at New College, a Presbyterian seminary. By 1889 his command of English was such that he obtained employment in Belfast, Ireland through the Presbyterian Church and became a noted lecturer and preacher in the Protestant churches in that city. That year of 1889, Dr. Checkemian created the Free Protestant Church of England® as a common meeting place for all types of Protestant Christians - Anglicans, Baptists, Presbyterians, Methodists, etc. On 4 May 1890, in order to remove any doubts as to his episcopal status, he received consecration from the above mentioned Bishops Charles Isaac Stevens, James Martin, and Alfred Spencer Richardson. In addition, in order to bring his fellow British Armenian refugees into a non-papal church, Dr. Checkemian established the United Armenian Catholic Church® in the British Isles on 15 August 1890. Dr. Checkemian came to the attention of the Most Revd and the Rt. Honble Dr. William C. Plunket (1828 to 1897), the fourth Baron Plunket, Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of the Church of Ireland. Archbishop Plunket hated the creeping Anglo-Catholicism within the Anglican Communion which he viewed as an trojan horse for Papal re-establishment over the Church of England. He dreamt as a counter measure of establishing Reformed Episcopal churches in spheres of Roman Catholic influence. He saw Dr. Checkemians idea of the United Armenian Catholic Church as part of the above plan and endorsed it by giving Dr. Checkemian a license to officiate as an clergyman within the Church of Ireland. It was Lord Plunkets hope that eventually this church would be established within the Armenian homeland as an replacement for the Armenian Uniate Church. In 1894 he was able to help establish the Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church by consecrating its founder, a former Roman Catholic priest, the Revd Juan Bautista Cabrera (1837 to 1916), as its first bishop. Unfortunately, on 1 April 1897 Lord Plunket died before he could help Dr. Checkemian expand the United Armenian Catholic Church back to Turkey. In the meantime, Bishop Checkemian had moved to London, where he was in close contact with the above mentioned independent bishops. They realised that they could be a better witness for evangelical Anglicanism if they could merge their resources together as one church body. On 2 November 1897 the Free Protestant Episcopal Church of England® was formed with the union of the Free Protestant Church®, the Ancient British Church®, and the Nazarene Episcopal Church®, with Dr. Checkemian as its first Primus. Dr. Checkemian retained the headship of the United Armenian Catholic Church® as an separate organisation from this union. The FPEC was inaugurated on the above date in St. Stephens Church, East Ham, London when Dr. Checkemian and Dr. James Martin first consecrated George W.L. Maaers (for the Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church®) and Frederick Boucher to the episcopal bench. These four bishops in turn then consecrated Andrew Charles Albert MacLaglen (1851 to 1928). The 1870 Constitution and Canons of the Church of Ireland was adopted for use in the new FPEC. In December 1900 Dr. Checkemian retired as Primus of the FPEC and was succeeded by Dr. Stevens. On 2 February 1917 Dr. Stevens died and Dr. Martin became the third head of the Church. Two years later on 20 October 1919 Dr. Martin died and was succeeded as Primus by Dr. MacLaglen. Meantime on 3 December 1920 Dr. Checkemian died and the headship of the United Armenian Catholic Church fell also to Dr. MacLaglen. The high point of the FPEC was when it obtained recognition by the British Government as a legally constiuted denomination. This fact was established in early 1917 when the Venerable Ernest A. Asquith, Ph.D., 26 Speldhurst Rd., London, the Archdeacon of the Church, was a test case under the Military Service Act of 1916. Clergymen could obtain an exemption from military service under the terms of this Act. The officiating magistrate gave his decision that the Ven. Dr. Asquith was a lawfully ordained minister of a legally constituted Episcopal Church, and therefore a man in Holy Orders within the meaning of the Act. His Worship arrived at this conclusion after investigating the origin of the Orders of the Church and the services used for ordinations and consecrations which are based on the 1662 Book of Common Prayer. In early 1922 Primus MacLaglen decided to retire as the joint head of the Free Protestant Episcopal Church, the Ancient British Church, and the United Armenian Catholic Church. On 4 June 1922 in St. Andrews Church, Retreat Place, London, he consecrated Herbert James Monzani Heard to the episcopate. +MacLaglen again took up the office of primus of the FPEC. 1922 to Date In 1928 Dr. MacLaglen died and the office of Primus remained vacant until around April of 1930 when Dr. Monzani Heard took up the position after he retired from his teaching profession. On 18 May 1939 he retired as the Primus of the FPEC when he consecrated as his successor Dr. William Hall, long time chaplain to Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, Stamford Hill. On 30 September 1944 the primacy of the United Armenian Catholic Church and then on 29 January 1945 the headship of the Ancient British Church were turned over by Dr. Monzani Heard to Bishop Hugh George de Willmott Newman who merged them into his Catholicate of the West jurisdiction. Bishop Monzani Heard died on 15 August 1947 at the age of 81. Primus Hall (1930 -1959)continued the practice of consecrating bishops. Dr. Charles Dennis Boltwood (1889 to 1985) sets the next stage in the history of the FPEC. A noted spiritualist in the 1930s and 1940s. On 25 December 1950, while on business in North America for the Catholicate, he also was cons. by +Earl Anglin Lawrence James of the Old Roman Catholic Church in Canada. On 3 May 1951 he was ordained sub conditione a presbyter by Primus Hall when in addition he joined the FPEC. Dr. Boltwood was cons. on Palm Sunday (6 April) 1952 by Primus Hall as a bishop in the FPEC. A week later, on Easter Sunday (13 April) 1952, +Boltwood received cons. from +De Willmott Newman. On 25 March (Lady Day) 1954 Dr. Boltwood was elected to be the successor of Dr. Hall as Primus of the FPEC. Dr. Boltwood on 6 July 1956 received cons.again from +De Willmott Newman and on 19 September 1958 was also cons. by +Konstantin Jaroshevich of the Holy Orthodox Church of Christ. On 9 October 1959 Primus Hall died and Dr. Boltwood became Bishop Primus. In 1957 Bishop Boltwood, with the blessings of Primus Hall, decided to expand the FPEC outside of the United Kingdom when he cons. Emmet Neil Enochs of California as Archbishop of the FPEC in the USA. In 1958 followed consecrations of bishops for West Africa and for Canada. Dr. Boltwood in the meantime (October 1960) quit his membership in the Catholicate of the West in order to concentrate on the 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. Boltwoods continuing practice of theosophy in addition to presenting himself as an old fashion evangelical Anglican did not help matters also.) On 16 October 1966 +Boltwood cons. Albert John Fuge, Sr. (1911 to 1982), a Lutheran pastor, of New York City as the new bishop of the FPEC in New York State. On 8 September 1968 Dr. Fuge became Archbishop of New York and Metropolitan of the USA in the place of Dr. Enochs who in the meantime had become an Old Roman Catholic bishop. +Fuges headquarters was in the Boltwood Chapel, which was located at 177 West Broadway, New York City. Dr. Boltwood decided at the age of 89 years to retire as the Primus of the FPEC. He nominated Dr. Fuge to succeed him in this office. At a ceremony held in the Park Road Methodist Church, New York City, Dr. Boltwood handed over the Deed of Succession to the Office of Bishop Primus to Dr. Fuge on 17 October 1978. Official witnesses to the change over were the Rt. Revd Dr. Ernest P. Parris (assistant FPEC bishop of New York) and the Revd Dr. Samuel Lewis (chaplain to Dr. Fuge). + Dr. Emmanuel Samuel Yekorogha, FPEC, Archbishop of Africa,and +Dr Horst-Karl F. Block (born 1936), Bishop of the Free Protestant Episcopal Church, Ecumenical Church Foundation and Assistant Bishop of the Diocese of West Africa, 1973 Presiding Bishop for Germany,France and parts adjacent In Europe, did not agree with this and Dr. Block was elected to become Bishop Primus of the FPEC which exists to this day. On 7 October 2001 it became known as the International Free Protestant Episcopal Church, because Bishop Primus Block established the Free Protestant Episcopal Church worldwide. On 30 April 1982 Dr. Fuge died and the FPEC bishop for Texas, the Rt. Revd Robert Randolph Rivette succeeded him as FPEC Archbishop of the USA. +Rivette, a lawyer and retired USAF officer, had been cons. on 19 October 1971 in the Boltwood Chapel (which was officially dedicated several years later on 27 October 1974) by Dr. Fuge as chief consecrator, assisted by Dr. Boltwood, and bishops Benjamin C. Eckardt, William C. Thompson, and Ernest P. Parris. This consecration occurred at the end of a Convocation of the FPEC in which the Church passed a new Constitution and adopted policies for greater co-ordination between the work of the USA and Canadian branches of the Church. Dr. Boltwood and his second wife Mrs. Connie Godden-Boltwood were the guests of honor at this Convocation. Dr. Charles K.S.S. Moffatt (1907 to 1989), FPEC Archbishop of Canada became the Presiding Bishop for Canada. It was at this time that Dr. Boltwood directed the Revd Dr. Francis Thomas, D.Th. (ordained by +Boltwood in 1961) of London to wind down the operations of St. Andrews Collegiate Church in London, logging its records with Somerset House, and disposing its properties. St. Andrews Collegiate Church was demolished in the 1970s when Stonebridge Road Housing estate was developed in this location. Copy is in the possession of Bishop Primus Block. On 7 November 1989 Dr. Moffatt died. On 19 April 1991 +Rivette cons. (sola) the Revd Melvin Frederick Larson (born 1920) of Lynwood, WA as FPEC Archbishop of the Pacific NW. +Larson had earlier been ordained a deacon and priest by +Walter Hollies Adams (1907 to 1991) of the Anglican Episcopal Church of North America before joining the FPEC. Since about 1997 +Rivette has been suffering with Alzheimers 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 Toms River, NJ, and +Dr. Ernest P. Paris (born 1920) of Saint Albany, 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 Bishops John R. Rifenbury (chief consecrator), Troy A. Kaichen, and Robert R. Rivette. +Parris had been cons. in the spring of 1970 by +Fuge (sola). On 8 March 2003 the English ministers of the FPEC, the Revd Cecil G. Cobran, B.Th., of London, England, died at the age of 88 years. Very Revd Dr. Geoffrey L. Stocker,Ph.D. a member of The International Free Protestant Episcopal Church in Great Britain died 23rd January 2005 .
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