Loiselle.Anglican.Sucession

Anglican Use

Succession of Bishop +ROBERT SAMUEL LOISELLE

from Canterbury

St Paul's, Crownsville, Maryland, Parish of King Charles, the Martyr.

Church built in 1861

+Robert Samuel Loiselle, Rector

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The Anglican Use?

The Holy Apostolic and Catholic Church in the region of the British Isles and the Atlantic, for almost two thousand years, has faithfully applied an Anglican or English Use to Divine Service, Holy Communion and Occasional Services.

The Liturgical application of the Truth of the Word of God, to the Traditions and Canons of the Seven Ecumenical Councils, in the Celtic, Latin, Saxon, Norman and English languages, as part of the life and worship of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church in that culture, resulted in the Prayerbook of 1549, and the Authorized Version of the Bible of 1611.

The lawful and appropriate level for the Cermonial in that particular "Anglican Use", we accept, as defined, inspired and revealed , by the First English Prayerbook. (Specifically, in the second year of the reign of King Edward the 6th). This we accept to be a proper , reasonable and decent manifestation of holy worship, as defined in the Anglican/English Use, to the glory and praise of a Blessed and Holy Trinity, in a manner of worship which is orthodox, catholic, and reformed.

The Sarum, the Gallican, the Roman, and the use of the Liturgy of St. Basil are all present in our 1549 Liturgy. The Word of God and the Seven Sacraments are there accepted and properly integrated into the very essence of the Divine Service, Holy Communion, and Occasional Services. (Please prayerfully consider the writings and music of the Canon of Westminister, Fr. Percy Dearmer .D.D. (OCR) on this topic.)

In the parts of America, and in the Atlantic, which are independent from the political authority of the English Crown and the Government of the United Kingdom, we believe it is proper, to also accept the correction and impact of the Scottish Prayer Book of 1637, on all Anglican Worship, with a historical eye towards the Non-juror's and the "Usagers" attempts to return their Liturgy to the proper Anglican use of 1549 with their 1717 Prayerbook.

Therefore, the Anglican Independent Communion continues to exclusively use the 1928 P.E.C.U.S.A. (Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America) Prayerbook and the Authorized King James Version of the Bible in both our worship and our teaching for some of the above reasons.

ECUSA (Episcopal Church in the United States of America) does not enjoy exclusive Apostolic authority in our region as a State Church. There are other faithful Apostolic Communions in this region with direct Apostolic lines to the Apostles within the Gallican, Sarum Use, and Western Rite Tradition. ECUSA can not continue to claim exclusive "Episcopal" or "Anglican" authority in this region, in part, because of their recent radical (root) changes to their original "Use" and Tradition.

They may only honestly rule, judge and determine the relative "non-conformity" of "Anglican Use" Christians in this region, in relation to the unchanging Creeds and the Traditions of the Undivided One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church...and the practice, morality and behaviour which has been accepted, everywhere, always, by all true Christians as Christian.

By what authority may ECUSA or the C of E say that any lawful and faithful Christian Body, in this region, may not "authentically" or "lawfully" worship in the English Use, in Christian Churches, with the 1928 BCP and the King James Bible, and not be called faithful Anglicans? When and how did the presiding bishop of ECUSA also become the King of England, the Bishop of Rome and also the four other Eastern Patriarchates for the North American and Atlantic Region?

Therefore, only by their fruit, their committment to the Word of God, and by the power of their witness, can they have any real Spiritual and Christian authority in this region. However, do their present "judgements" depart too far from their own original Traditions? Judge not lest yea be judged? Yes, Amen, and to what standard does that refer? There is only One. The Cornerstone, Jesus, the Son of God, the Righteous Father Almighty and the Power of the Holy Spirit. To that Standard, His whole Church must conform... and ONLY by grace and the Blood can any conform.

We remain by faith, hope, charity, an Anglican Use Communion... "independent" not from the Church or from any other faithful members of the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church but from that which is not part of that same faith and practice. Our Apostolic Succession is valid, lawful, and a direct continuation of an existing historical jurisdiction.

In 1896, Pope Leo 13th, declared in a Papal Bull that all "Anglican Orders" were invalid. The Church of England and the Protestant Episcopal Church in the USA has stated that this is not the case. However, look at how the Utrecht Old Catholic Lines and the Independent Catholic Lines flooded into the Church of England after 1896 in an attempt to build a case against or with Rome.

However, there is now an added problem in the Anglican world concerning the ordination of women which many feel is against the tradition of the Holy Catholic Church. In the Anglican Independent Communion we do not ordain women to the sacradotal function. In this case, we are closer to the Polish National Catholic Church and the Orthodox than to the present politics of Utrecht or the Church of England.

Anglican lines of succession in the United States originally came from the Church of England through the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States and also from P.E.C.S.A. consecrations of Bishops in Asia for different Independent Catholic and Episcopal Churches such as the Philippine Independent Catholic Church (P.I.C.C.) There are also other Anglican Apostolic lines from the Order of Corporate Reunion, The Ferrette Succession, the Apostolic Episcopal Church , the Reformed Episcopal Church, and Uniate Churches.

Within the Anglican Use, the validity of consecration is based on and discussed from these perspectives as well as the issue of historical jurisdiction which tends to be a problem with most independent Catholic movements. However, in North America and parts of the Atlantic we are in a "New World".

1. The proper subject (... a baptised and confirmed man... called by God and examined by the Church)

2. The proper matter (the laying on of hands by 3 other bishops). Problems here exist with +Varlet for the Old Catholics and +Cheney for the Reformed Episcopal Church

3. The proper form (words, prayers, Ordinal and actions performed) main point being asking the Holy Spirit to come down upon this His servant

4. The proper intention. For the Romans, Orthodox and the Anglo-Catholics this requires the intention to maintain a sacradotal priesthood of men.

A EARLY ROMAN- ANGLICIAN SUCCESSION

Saint Augustine was the first Archbishop of Canterbury. He had been Prior of St Andrew's Monastery in Rome and, in 596 AD, was dispatched by the then Pope Gregory the Great to become the first Roman Catholic Primate of the Church in England.

A Celtic Church existed in the British Isles with Christian Bishops before this date at least since 314AD. There were Roman Christians and Bishops in the region even before this date. As part of the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church the Celts had strong connections to the Liturgy and Spiritual traditions of other Bishops other than those of Rome.

597 St. AUGUSTINE - St Augustine, however , was consecrated in Arles in France and not by Pope Gregory the Great in Rome

604 LAURENTIUS - 619 MELLITUS -

624 JUSTUS - 627 HONORIUS - 655 DEUSDEDIT - 668 THEODORE

693 BERHTWALD - 731 TATWINE - 735 NOTHELM - 740 CUTHBERT

761 BREGOWINE - 765 JAENBERT - 793 ETHELHARD - 805 WULFRED

832 FEOLOGELD - 833 CEOLNOTH - 870 ETHELRED

The direct Papal line enters into Canterbury with Pope Nicholas I.

POPE St. NICHOLAS I (consecrated in 858) in 864 consecrated

FORMOSUS as Bishop of Porto (later Pope in 891) who in 891 consecrated

St. PLEGMUND as Archbishop of Canterbury who in 909 consecrated

ALTHELM as Bishop of Wells (914 Canterbury) who in 914 consecrated

WULFHELM as Bishop of Wells (923 Canterbury) who in 927 consecrated

ODO as Bishop of Ramsbury (942 Canterbury) who in 957 consecrated

St. DUNSTAN as Bishop of Worcester (960 Canterbury) who in 984 consecrated

St. AELPHEGE as Bishop of Winchester (1005 Canterbury) who in 990 consecrated

ELFRIC as Bishop of Ramsbury (995 Canterbury) who in 1003 consecrated

WULFSTAN as Bishop of Worcester and York who on the 13th November 1020 consecrated

ETHELNOTH as Archbishop of Canterbury who in 1035 consecrated

EADSIGE as Bishop of St. Martin's, Canterbury (1038 Canterbury ) who on the 3rd April 1043 consecrated

STIGAND as Bishop of Elmham (1052 Canterbury) who in 1058 consecrated

SIWARD as Bishop of Rochester on the 29th September 1070 assisted William, Bishop of London at the consecration of

A NOTE: from this point on you will see an incease of French bishops. After 1066 most of the bishops in England were Norman. The Church in Wales and Ireland remained Anglo-Saxon-Celtic for much longer.

Bl. LANFRANC as Archbishop of Canterbury, who in 1070 consecrated

THOMAS as Archbishop of York, who on the 4th December 1094 consecrated

St. ANSELM as Archbishop of Canterbury, who on the 26th July 1108 consecrated

RICHARD DE BELMEIS as Bishop of London, who on the 18th February 1123 consecrated

WILLIAM OF CORBEUIL as Archbishop of Canterbury, who on the 17th November 1129 consecrated

HENRY OF BLOIS as Bishop of Winchester, who on the 3rd June 1162 consecrated

St. THOMAS BECKET as Archbishop of Canterbury, who on the 23rd August 1164 consecrated

ROGER OF GLOUCESTER as Bishop of Worcester, who on the 7th November 1176 assisted Gilbert Foliot, Bishop of London, at the consecration of

PETER DE LEIA as Bishop of St. David's, who on the 29th September 1185 assisted Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury, at the consecration of

GILBERT GLANVILLE as Bishop of Rochester, who on the 23rd May 1199 assisted Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury, at the consecration of

WILLIAM OF S. MERE L'EGLISE who on the 5th October 1214 assisted Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury, at the consecration of

WALTER DE GRAY as Bishop of Worcester (1216 Archbishop of York), who on the 5th December 1249 consecrated

WALTER KIRKHAM as Bishop of Durham, who on the 7th February 1255 consecrated

HENRY as Bishop of Whithern, who on the 9th January 1284 assisted William Wickwane, Archbishop of York, at the consecration of

ANTHONY BECK as Bishop of Durham (1306 Patriarch of Jerusalem) who on the 14th september 1292 consecrated

JOHN OF HALTON as Bishop of Carlisle, who on the 27th June 1322 assisted Thomas Cobham, Bishop of Worcester, at the consecration of ROGER NORTHBOROUGH as Bishop of Lichfield, who on the 15th July 1330 assisted Henry Burghersh, Bishop of Lincoln, at the consecration of

ROBERT WYVIL as Bishop of Salisbury, who on the 12th March 1340 consecrated

RALPH STRATFORD as Bishop of London, who on the 15 th May 1346 assisted John Stratford, Archbishop of Canterbury , at the consecration of

WILLIAM EDENDON as Bishop of Winchester, who on the 20th March 1362 consecrated

IMON SUDBURY as Bishop of London, (later Archbishop of Canterbury) who on the 12th of May 1370 consecrated

THOMAS BRENTINGHAM as Bishop of Exeter, who on the 5th january 1382 consecrated

ROBERT BRAYBROOKE as Bishop of London, who on the 3rd February 1398 consecrated

ROGER WALDEN as Archbishop of Canterbury, who on the 14th July 1398 onsecrated

HENRY BEAUFORT as Bishop of Lincoln, who in 1405 became Bishop of Winchester and on the 15th May 1435 consecrated

THOMAS BOURCHIER as Bishop of Worcester (1443 Ely, 1454 Canterbury) who on the 31st January 1479 consecrated

JOHN MORTON as Bishop of Ely (1486 Canterbury) who on the 21st May 1497 consecrated

RICHARD FITZJAMES as Bishop of Rochester (1503 Chichester, 1506 London) who on the 25th September 1502 consecrated

WILLIAM WARHAM as Bishop of London (1503 Canterbury) who on the 15th May 1521 consecrated

JOHN LONGLANDS as Bishop of Lincoln who on the 30th March 1533 consecrated

THOMAS CRANMER as Archbishop of Canterbury who in June 1536 consecrated

WILLIAM BARLOW as Bishop of St. David's (1549 Bath, 1559 Chichester), who on the 17th December 1559 consecrated

MATTHEW PARKER as Archbishop of Canterbury who, four days later, consecrated

EDMUND GRINDAL as Bishop of London (1570 York, 1576 Canterbury) who on the 21st April 1577 consecrated

JOHN WHITGIFT as Bishop of Worcester (1583 Canterbury) who on the 8th May 1597 consecrated

RICHARD BANCROFT as Bishop of London (1604 Canterbury) who on the 3rd December 1609 consecrated

GEORGE ABBOT as Bishop of Lichfield (1610 London, 1611 Canterbury) who on the 14th December 1617 consecrated

GEORGE MONTAIGNE as Bishop of Lincoln (1621 London, 1628 Durham, 1628 York)who on the 18th November 1621 consecrated

Bl. WILLIAM LAUD as Bishop of St. David's (1626 Bath, 1628 London, 1633 Canterbury) who on the 17th June 1638 consecrated

BRIAN DUPPA as Bishop of Chichester (1641 Salisbury, 1660 Winchester) who on the 28th October 1660 consecrated

GILBERT SHELDON as Bishop of London (1663 Canterbury) who on the 6th December 1674 consecrated

HENRY COMPTON as Bishop of Oxford (1675 London) who on the 27th January 1678 consecrated

WILLIAM SANCROFT, Archbishop of Canterbury who was a "non-juror" (Please look at this page. A discussion of the NONJURORS ) who on the 25th October 1685 did consecrate

THOMAS WHITE as Bishop of Peterborough, who was deposed in 1690 as a non-juror and on the 24th February 1693, under Royal Warrant from the exiled King James II, consecrated

GEORGE HICKES as Bishop of Thetford, a Non-juror who on the 24th February 1712 consecrated

JAMES GADDERAR (consecrated without a See; later Bishop of Aberdeen and Moray), who on the 4th June 1727 consecrated

THOMAS RATTRAY as Bishop of Dunkold, of the Scottish Episcopal Church who in 1741 consecrated

WILLIAM FALCONAR as Bishop of Ross and Caithness, of the Scottish Episcopal Church who on the 21st September 1768 consecrated

ROBERT KILGOUR as Bishop of Aberdeen, who was consecrated 12 Feb 1775 by Frederick Corwallis, who was consecrated 19 Feb 1750 by Thomas Herring... on the 14th November 1784 consecrated

SAMUEL SEABURY as Bishop of Connecticut, of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the USA, on the 17th September 1792 did consecrate +Claggett of PECUSA

HERE ARE SOME MORE IMPORTANT FACTS CONCERNING THE VALID SUCCESSION FROM NONJURORS into the PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH

NOTE: The Episcopal Lineages of both Samuel Seabury and Thomas Herring are

traced back to William Sancroft.

T. J. CLAGGETT as Bishop of Maryland, who on the 7th May 1797 consecrated

EDWARD BASS as Bishop of Massachusetts who on the 18th October 1797 consecrated

ABRAHAM JARVIS as Bishop of Connecticut, who on the 29th May 1811 consecrated

A. V. GRISWOLD as Bishop of the Eastern Diocese, who on the 31st October 1832 consecrated

J. H. HOPKINS as Bishop of Vermont,

+ Hopkins consecrated in 1866 +George David Cummins the PECUSA assistant bishop of Kentucky.

G. D. CUMMINS as Assistant Bishop of Kentucky. Bishop Cummins then departed the Protestant Episcopal Church over matters of doctrine and started the REFORMED EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

The AIC also has lines through the REC and Independent Catholic Churches.

These original PECUSA Episcopal lines come from both +WHITE and +SEABURY down through P.E.C.U.S. A. to,

NORMAN SPENCER BINSTEAD +Norman Spencer Binsted who was consecrated December 3. 1928 by PECUSA bishops +John Gardner Murry, +Henry St George Tucker, +John McKim, +James Freeman, and +S.H. Nichols. With three other PECUSA bishops +Binsted consecrated on April 7, 1948.

+ISABELO DE LOS REYES Jr, for the Iglesia Filipina Independiente which became P.I.C.C. They were in full communion with PECUSA. He with three other PICC bishops then consecrated on September 22, 1957

+FRANCISCO DE JESUS PAGTAKAN for the P.I.C.C. who with +CHAMBERS also consecrated +DOREN in Denver in 1978. +Pagtakan also directly consecrated on June 15, 1988 ,

+BERTIL PERSSON of the Apostolic Episcopal Church. +Pagtakhan consecrated +Bertil at the Order of Obispo Maximo Macario Vilches Ga, of PICC, as Archbishop of Europe for the Philippine Independent Catholic Church the other co-consecrators were +Emile Fairfield and +Paul Schultz.

+Persson then consecrated,

+PAGET E.J. MACK for the Apostolic Episcopal Church in North America. +Mack was also co-consecrated by +E. CAUDILL who was directly consecrated by +GA of PICC. +Mack was the main for +ROBERT SAMUEL LOISELLE

+Ryzy and +Mack

+ROBERT SAMUEL LOISELLE, Bishop of the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, Anglican Use, for the Anglican Independent Communion on March 11, 2000.

+Mack was the main with +Ryzy and +Cuputo.

There are other old pre-1977 P.E.C.U.S.A Anglican lines to +Robert Samuel Loiselle which do not come from +Cummins but from other later Episcopal bishops, some who in the early 1900s, also departed the Protestant Episcopal Church, but into the Independent Anglo-Catholic movement. These Anglican churchmen rejected the low Church Anglican theology of the Reformed Episcopals . One example was +William Montgomery Brown (PECUSA) His lines come directly to such bishops of the APOSTOLIC EPISCOPAL CHURCH as +Brooks and down to +Cederhom and +Spatero.

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