+de Ortega Maxey
is a work of G-d's grace who requires all of St. Augustine's "Doctrines of Orders" to rush into play.
+Maxey's connection to the Utrecht Old Catholic Lines are from +Gul and made possible because of the Old Catholics in the UK and also by connections with +Vilatte's Independent "Old Catholic" bishops. Many Catholic and Anglican jurisdictions have problems with any lines which go through the UK and +Arnold Harris Mathew and/or +Vilatte.
There are both political and spiritual reasons for this?
The concerns with Vilatte's lines are not his connections with The Patriarchal See of Antioch and Peter Ignatius 3rd (126 Patriarch) and +Francis Xavier Alvarez but the number of consecrations which he was reported to have done on individuals of questionable "calling". There are two sides to this story as pointed out in Old Catholic web sites.
+Maxey was also reported to be with Vilatte when he died in France and when Vilatte then near death converted yet again to the RC Church? This is not accepted by bishops of the Apostolic Episcopal Church.
An interesting site concerning +Maxey and his ministries is written by +Weeks. Much of the same information here follows except it seems +Weeks had contact with +Maxey in California but many claim that Maxey never consecrated Weeks.
The Eastern Orthodox and the other Apostolic lines to +Maxey from Hugh George de Willmott Newman of the Catholic Apostolic Church and Catholicate of the West are/were (to my mind) +Maxey's most important addition to his line. On June 6, 1946, Hugh George de Willmott Newman consecrated Maxey.
This was after the sub conditional exchange of lines with +Aneed et. al. on August 23, 1945. If Wadle and his descendents are to claim a connection to +de Wilmott Newman via Maxey they must show there was a second exchange of succession after6/6/46.
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Most of the information about +Maxey's consecrations was obtained from the
"Independent Bishops: An International Directory" [Published 1990]
Wallace David de Ortega Maxey was born on February 22, 1902. He was
ordained a priest in 1923 by Joseph Rene Vilatte of the American Catholic
Church. He was consecrated on Janaury 2, 1927 by William Montgomery
Brown of the Old Catholic Church in America, assisted by William Henry Francis
Brothers, Albert Jehan, and Jozef Zielonka. On March 24, 1927, he was
consecrated sub conditione by William Henry Francis Brothers of the Old
Catholic Church in America, assisted by Jozef Zielonka.
He was ordained and consecrated sub conditione on February 10, 1929 by
George Augustus Newmark of the American Old Catholic Church and assisted by
Edwin Wallace Hunter. He was consecrated sub conditione on March 24, 1929
by Edwin Wallace Hunter of the North American Old Roman Catholic Church,
assisted by Gregory Lines and Francis John Barwell Walker. Maxey was
General Secretary of the Temple of the People from 1931 to 1932, an
international Tehosophical group headquarted in Halcyon, California. He was
ordained sub conditione as a Protestant Episcopal priest in 1934 by Bishop
Edward L. Parsons. In 1936 he left that church and founded the Ancient
Christian fellowship (The Old Catholic Church in America).
On August 23, 1945, Maxey exchanged consecrations with Antoine Joseph
Aneed, Charles H. Hampton, Henry Joseph Kleefisch, and Lowell Paul Wadle.
He was consecrated in the Abbey Church of Christ the Kind in New Barnet,
England, on June 6, 1946, by Hugh George de Willmott Newman of the Catholic
Apostolic Church and Catholicate of the West, assisted by John Sebastian
Marlow Ward, Richard Kenneth Hurgon, John Syer, Charles Leslie Saul, and
Frank Ernest Langhelt. He was entitled as MAR David I, Patriarch of Malaga,
Apostolic Primate of All the Iberians, and Supreme Hierarch of the Catholicate of
the Americas.
Maxey then went to the United States of America and visited Arthur Wolfort
Brooks of the Apostolic Episcopal Church, who consecrated him sub conditione
in Christ's Church-by-the-Sea, Broad Channel, Long Island, New York, on July
13, 1946.
The following day, Brooks enthroned Maxey as Archbishop of the Province of
the West of the Apostolic Episcopal Church.
When Brooks died on July 7, 1948, Maxey became the head of the Apostolic
Episcopal Church in America, but resigned on August 23, 1949 from that church
and from the Catholicate of the West.
He became pastor of the First Universalitst Church
of Los Angeles, California, where he stayed until march, 1957.
In 1970 he resumed his episcopal role and founded the Catholic Christian Church
with A.Stanford (Joseph) whom he consecrated.