THE APOSTOLIC EPISCOPAL CHURCH
This we believe is one of the most important lines of valid Apostolic Succession in North America. It has lines from the Russian Orthodox Church and other Eastern Churches.
FROM THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH
Michael Nevskij (Makarij, 1835-1926) North America and Aleutian Islands, Bishop Makarij consecrated 1904, 4 January
Basil Michaelovich Meschersky (Eudokim, 1869-1935) Archbishop, The North American Diocese of The Russian Orthodox Church (1914) Archbishop Eudokim consecrated 1917, 13 May
Abdullah Ofiesh (Aftimios, 1880-1966) Founder & Archbishop, The Holy Eastern Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church in North America (The American Orthodox Catholic Church) (1927) Archbishop Aftimios consecrated 1928, 26 May
Sophronios Bishara (Sophronios, 1888-1940) Archbishop, The Syrian Orthodox Mission of The North American Diocese of The Russian Orthodox Church (1933) Archbishop, The Holy Eastern Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church in North America (The American Orthodox Catholic Church) (1933)
Archbishop Sophronios consecrated 1933, 7 November
John M. More-Moreno (Chrysostomos/Mar Chrysostomos, -1958) Ruling Bishop,The Holy Eastern Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church in North America (The American Orthodox Catholic Church) (1934) Ruling Bishop, The Apostolic Episcopal Church (1949) Bishop Chrysostomos consecrated 1949, 6 December
Perry Nikolaus Cedarholm (Mar Nikolaus, 1890-1979) Archbishop, The Apostolic Episcopal Church of Scandinavia (1970) Archbishop Cedarholm consecrated 1971, 12 December
Nils Bertil Alexander Persson (Mar Alexander, *1941) Archbishop-Primate, The Apostolic Episcopal Church (1986) Nils Bertil Alexander Persson (Mar Alexander,) Archbishop Persson consecrated
Paget E.J. Mack of the Apostolic Episcopal Church and the Order of St Benedict the Moor, who then consecrated
Robert Samuel Loiselle for the ANGLICAN INDEPENDENT COMMUNION
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THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (II)
Sergij Vladimirovich Simanskij (Aleksij, 1877-1970)
Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia (1942)
Assisted by Metropolitan Nikolaj (Boris Dorofeevic´ Jaru°evic´),
Archbishops Makarij (Sergej Konstantinovic´ Daev) and Gurij (Vjaéslav
Michaijlovic´ Egorov) and Bishops Aleksij (Viktor Aleksandrovic´ Konoplev)
and Pimen (Sergij Izvekov), Patriarch Aleksij consecrated 1958,
28 December
Konstantin Nikolaevich Wendland (Ioann/John, 1909-1989)
Ordained priest, Russian Orthodox Church (1936, September 15)
Patriarchal Exarch, The Russian Orthodox Church in America (1963)
Assisted by Bishop Dositheus (Michail Ivanchenko), The Russian Orthodox
Church in America, Exarch John consecrated 1966, 17 April
Joseph John Skureth (* 1933)
Ordained priest, The Old Catholic Church in America (1959, January 25)
Ordained priest, The Russian Orthodox Church in America (1963, July 31)
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 1989, 28 February
Nils Bertil Alexander Persson (* 1941)
Ordained priest, The Eastern Apostolic Episcopal Church (1969, February 2)
Ordained priest, Iglesia Filipina Independiente (1988, June 15)
Archbishop-Primate, The Apostolic Episcopal Church (1986)
Assisted by Missionary Bishop George W. Boyer, Iglesia Filipina
Independiente of Great Britain, Archbishop-Primate Eric F. Eades, The Holy
Celtic Church, Rev. Paul Faunch, The Church of England and Honorary Canon
of The Apostolic Episcopal Church, Archbishop Persson consecrated 1992, 31
October
Francis Cajetan Spataro (* 1936)
Ordained priest, The Orthodox Catholic Autocephalous Church of the United
States of America (1976, December 26)
Archbishop-Primate, The Apostolic Episcopal Church (1998)
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THE CHALDEAN CATHOLIC CHURCH (I)
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 1917, 27 May
Antoine Lefebvre [Lefberne] (Mar Antoine, 1862-1953)
Member, Ordo Antonianus S. Hormisdae Chaldaeorum
Ordained priest, The Chaldean Catholic Church (1893, January 6)
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
1925, 4 May
Arthur Wolfort Brooks (Mar John Emmanuel, 1889-1948)
Ordained priest, The Protestant Episcopal Church (1916, January 11)
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
1946, 13 July
Wallace de Ortega Maxey (Mar David I, 1902-1992)
Ordained priest, The American Catholic Church (1923, June 1)
Ordained priest, The American Old Catholic Church (1929, February 10)
Ordained priest, The Protestant Episcopal Church (1934)
Archbishop-Primate, The Apostolic Episcopal Church (1948)
Assisted by Archbishop-Primate Jürgen W. Bless, The German Old Catholic
Church in America, Archbishop-Primate Emile F. R. Fairfield, Iglesia
Ortodóxa Católica Apostólica Méxicana, Archbishop-Primate Arthur Garrow,
The Tridentine Old Catholic Church of the Americas, Bishop Daniel N.
McCarty, The Apostolic Catholic Church of the Americas, Archbishop-Primate
Ronald R. Ramm, The Ancient Christian Fellowship, Bishop Paul G. W.
Schultz, Iglesia Ortodóxa Apostólica Méxicana and Apostolic Administrator
of USA of The Apostolic Episcopal Church, Archbishop de Ortega Maxey
consecrated and enthroned as the third Archbishop-Primate 1986,
7 November
Nils Bertil Alexander Persson (Mar Alexander, * 1941)
Ordained priest, The Eastern Apostolic Episcopal Church (1969, February 2)
Ordained priest, Iglesia Filipina Independiente (1988, June 15)
Archbishop-Primate, The Apostolic Episcopal Church (1986)
Assisted by Missionary Bishop George W. Boyer, Iglesia Filipina
Independiente of Great
Britain, Archbishop-Primate Eric F. Eades, The Holy Celtic Church, Rev.
Paul Faunch, The Church of England and Honorary Canon of The Apostolic
Episcopal Church, Archbishop
Persson consecrated 1992, 31 October
Francis Cajetan Spataro (* 1936)
Ordained priest, The Orthodox Catholic Autocephalous Church of the United
States of America (1976, December 26)
Archbishop-Primate, The Apostolic Episcopal Church (1998)
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