Alternate AIC Episcopal Lines through THE REFORMED EPISCOPAL CHURCH AND INDEPENDENT CATHOLIC CHURCHES
However, +CUMMINGS of the REFORMED EPISCOPAL CHURCH on the 14th December 1873 consecrated
CHARLES E. CHENEY Bishop of the the Reformed Episcopal Church. +Cummings did a "one on one" consecration which is considered to be valid but irregular. In the Anglician tradition usually three bishops are required.
That question still lingers today, in some Anglo-Catholic minds, was this a "valid" consecration? Other R.E.C. consecrations and Orders are still being questioned by some, as lacking both the "form" and the proper "intent" for creating Bishops and Priests, in the tradition of the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.
However, recently we found this defence on the web of the Historic Episcopate of the R.E.C. by James T. Payne. It is well worth your honest consideration. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/5081/james.html
+CHENEY then on the 24th February 1876 did consecrate
W. R. NICHOLSON Bishop of the REC who on the 22nd June 1879 consecrated for the Reformed Episcopal Church
A. S. RICHARDSON , Bishop of the American Reformed Episcopal Church moved to England and started a branch of the REC there. In 1890, +Richardson assisted Charles Isaac Stevens of the Ferrete succession at the conditional (sub conditione) consecration of
LEON CHECHEMIAN, Armenian Uniate titular Bishop of Malatia, who had a license to officiate in the Diocese of Dublin. He founded the Free Protestant Episcopal Church of England. +Chechemian, on the 2nd November 1897, consecrated
ANDREW CHARLES ALBERT McLAGEN of the Free Protestant Episcopal Church of England as Titular Bishop of Claremont, who on the 4th June 1922 consecrated
JAMES HEARD as Archbishop of Selsey, who on the 13th June 1943 consecrated
WILLIAM BERNARD CROW, who on the 10th April 1944 consecrated
HUGH GEORGE de WILMOTT-NEWMAN as Mar Georgius I, Metropolitan of Glastonbury. +de Wilmott Newman is a key figure in the English Independent Catholic Movement in the 1950s. In him lines from the Greek-Melkhite (Uniate) Catholic Succession and this Anglican line come to many men who followed after him.
+de Wilmott-Newman's lines also come directly to the Apostolic Episcopal Church, The Order of Corporate Reunion, and many Independent Catholic and Anglican jurisdictions. Unfortunately some later successions from +de Wilmott-Newman have ended up in Gnostic and Templar lines of succession of questionable nature.
De Wilmott-Newman also sub conditione consecrated
+ABBINGA, on November 28th, 1946. Earlier, on October 13, 1946 , +Abbinga was consecrated by +Brooks, +Keller, +Harold F A Jarvis and +John More-Moreno. The Apostolic Episcopal Church lines from +Abbinga come down directly to +Cederholm to +Persson and from there to +Mack and directly to +LOISELLE.
+de Wilmott Newman on the 6th June 1946 also consecrated
WALLACE DAVID DE ORTEGA MAXEY as Mar David I, Patriarch of Malaga, Catholicate of the West in the Americas. After 1951 +Maxey departed from the Catholicate of the West and Mar Georgius stated that none of +Maxey's consecrations after that date were valid. However, as Utrecht learned after +Mathew that is a very difficult thing to enforce.
+Maxey did also directly sub conditione consecrate +Arthur W. Brooks before 1951 and that line in the Apostolic Episcopal Church also comes down to +Francis Spataro. +Persson also claims a direct sub conditione consecration by +Maxey.
+BERTIL PERSSON was the Archbishop of the Apostolic Episcopal Church. His Anglican lines come directly to +Robert Samuel Loiselle from +Paget E. J. Mack whose main consecrator was +Persson. His Anglican lines also come directly to +L. L. Schaver.
To +Compton-Caputo these same Anglican lines come through a sub conditional consecration of +Peter by +Larry Lee Schaver who has PICC lines.
The validity of the Anglican Independent Communion's claim to a valid Apostolic Succession through direct Anglican lines does not have to go through the next section of this chart. The AIC claim rests on the valid Anglican Orders of PECUSA before the ordination and consecration of women to Holy Orders by ECUSA (which to my mind now places all their Sacraments and Orders in question). These valid Anglican lines are coming through the AEC, PICC and the REC.
However the following does make interesting reading and explores the strange interconnections between some of the more colorful Independent Liberal Catholic and Anglo-Catholic Bishops of the 1970s and 80s.
We now come to an issue under investigation. In many places, it is written that on 25th September 1977 +Maxey assisted by the Most Reverend +CHARLES RICHARD McCARTHY and the Most Reverend Francis Jerome Joachim did consecrate +C.D. Luther as Bishop of the Western Orthodox Catholic Church . However, others will state that +Maxey was not on the East Coast at that time.
Who was the main consecrator on that date? Where and when did this event take place?
Did +McCarthy and +Ladd travel with +Luther to the West Coast on this date for this consecration? Did +Maxey come to Altoona later?
There is now evidence in place that +Maxey was there in Altoona in 1982 but not in 1977. The home base for +McCarthy is and was always Philadelphia... and for +Maxey after 1951 it was always California.
We do not question that +Maxey did somewhere along the line did directly consecrate both +Luther and +Ladd. How all this fits into this specific date and place above is an open question which WOCA needs to put some light on.
+FRANCIS JEROME JOACHIM (LADD), (the documentation is in place with +Persson) was consecrated sub conditione in Altoona on August 9, 1982 , by Abp+Maxey assisted by +Luther. From +Ladd there are s.c. consecrations to +Barber (on Feb. 5, 1984) which come to +Persson (June 14 ,1987) and then to +Mack and to +Loiselle.
Bishop Loiselle's and +Compton-Caputo's Anglican lines do not have to go through Luther and WOCA which nevertheless are charted below... and they do eventually end up with +Peter Compton Caputo via one of his co-consecrators.
C.DAVID LUTHER, as Archbishop of the Western Orthodox Church in America and who on June 17, 1984 consecrated The Reverend Father Richard James Ingram for The Western Orthodox Church in America assisted by The Most Reverend + PETER-PAUL BRENNAN of the Ecumenical Catholic Diocese of the Americas and by The Rt. Reverend Alan Maxwell Bain of the Independent Catholic Church International. A link for Bain.
The Most Rev'd Peter Paul has been so kind as to inform us that the +Richard Ingram consecration was near Pittsburg, PA., in Montours at the Presbyterian Church of the Montours. A Bishop Mondok was also consecrated at the same time. Luther was the main consecrator and Bain and +Brennan were the co-consecrators. This consecratiion was held during a synod of WOCA.
RICHARD INGRAM as a Bishop of The Western Orthodox Church in America was later consecrated on 7 June 1988 by The Most Reverend Luis Fernando Castillo-Mendez, Primate of the Igreja Catolica Apostolica Brasileira. This directly connects this Anglican Line to the Petrine Line of +Compton-Caputo. Bishop +Ingram then consecrated
DONALD W. Saint PETERS, O.S.B of the Byzantine Orthodox Catholic Church as Bishop on 10 September 1989 , and by Patrick M. Cronin and by Timothy W. Browning (Bishop Christopher) who consecrated Donald W. Saint Peters, O.S.B. (born 25 December 1936, deacon February 1981, priest 28 August 1983) in the Upper Room, Parmanate Hall in Portage, Indiana. +Richard James Ingram, SGS was of the WOCA , Patrick M. Cronin is of the Independent Catholic Church of America, Timothy W. Browning O.S.B. (Archbishop Christopher) of the Byzantine Orthodox Catholic Church. +Saint Peters then consecrated
DONALD WHARTON of the Byzantine Orthodox Catholic Church as Bishop along with Bishop Frank VanDeventer S.F.O of the Christ Catholic Orthodox Church and Archbishop Christopher O.S.B (Tim Browning) in Kentucky just outside of Cincinnati. +Wharton who then did co-consecrate +Compton Caputo.