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The Free Protestant Episcopal Church

This church was established in England on 2 November 1897 by a union of

several small British episcopates established in the 1870s in

reaction to the rising Anglo-Catholicism of the Church of England.

The Most Rev'd Leon Checkemian (1848 to 1920), an Armenian Uniate

bishop had moved to Britain and became an protestant Anglican and served as

the first primate of the new Church.

Apostolic Succession in The Free Protestant Episcopal Church

This Church holds valid Apostolic Succession derived from the Armenian

Catholic Church, the Syrian Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church, and

the Church of England (through the Reformed Episcopal Church of the United

States of America). These lines were in the jurisdictions that united in

1897 to found the Free Protestant Episcopal Church.

The Anglican Succession is as follows. The Most Rev'd and the Rt. Honble Dr.

John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury consecrated in 1787 William White as

the PECUSA bishop of Pennsylvania. He in turn consecrated in 1832 John Henry

Hopkins the PECUSA bishop of Vermont. Bishop Hopkins consecrated in 1866

George David Cummins the PECUSA assistant bishop of Kentucky.

In 1873 Bishop Cummins founded the Reformed Episcopal Church. The Succession follows from

him thus: 1873, Charles Edward Cheney, REC USA; 1876, William Rufus

Nicholson, REC USA; 1879, Alfred Spencer Richardson, REC USA.

Bishop Richardson later moved to Britain where he was involved in the work of the

Free Church of England. On 4 May 1890 he assisted in the sub conditione

consecration of Bishop Leon Chechemian. From Bishop Chechemian the

Succession continues thus: 1897, Andrew Charles Albert McLaglen, FPEC

Britain; 1922, Herbert James Monzani Heard, FPEC Britain; 1939, William

Hall, FPEC Britain; 1952, Charles Dennis Boltwood, FPEC Britain; 1966,

Albert J. Fuge, Sr., FPEC USA; 1971, Robert R. Rivette, FPEC USA; and 1993,

Matthew Tuz, FPEC Canada.