ORCCNA: History

Apostolic Succession
of The Old Roman Catholic Church
in North America

The Apostolic Succession of the Old Roman Catholic Church in North America emanates from the Roman Catholic Church through the Ancient Catholic Church of the Netherlands which, in Europe, is known as the Catholic Old Diocese of Utrecht by virtue of papal grants given by Blessed Pope Eugene III in 1145 AD and Pope Leo X in 1520 AD.

Barberini

Antonio Cardinal Barberini, Archbishop of Rheims, in 1667 consecrated:

Charles Maurice Le Tellier, as his Coadjutor who, in 1670, upon mandate of Pope Clement X, consecrated:

Jacques-Benigne Bossuet as Bishop of Meaux who, in 1693, consecrated:

Jacques Goydon de Matignon as Bishop of Condom who, on February 12, 1719,upon mandate of Pope Clement XI, consecrated:

Mathew

Dominique Marie Varlet as Bishop of Ascalon (in partibus) who, on October 17, 1739, consecrated:

Peter John Meindaerts in Utrecht, Holland who had been elected to the vacant See of Utrecht, and who, on July 11, 1745, consecrated:

Johannes van Stiphout as Bishop of Haarlem who, on February 7, 1768, consecrated:

Walter van Nieuwenhuisen as Archbishop of Utrecht who, on June 21, 1778, consecrated:

Adrianus Johannes Broekman as Bishop of Haarlem who, on July 5, 1797, consecrated:

de Landes
Berghes

Johannes Jacobus van Rhijn as Archbishop of Utrecht who, on November 7, 1805, consecrated:

Gisbertus de Jong as Bishop of Deventer who, on April 24, 1814, consecrated:

Willibrord van Os as Archbishop of Utrecht who, on April 22, 1819, consecrated:

Johannes Bon as Bishop of Haarlem who, on June 14, 1825, consecrated:

Johannes van Santen as Archbishop of Utrecht who, on July 17, 1854, consecrated:

Carfora

Hermannus Heykamp as Bishop of Deventer who, on August 11, 1873, consecrated:

Gaspardus Johannes Rinkel as Bishop of Haarlem, who, on May 11, 1892, consecrated:

Gerardus Gul as Archbishop of Utrecht who, on April 28,1908 consecrated:

Arnold Harris Mathew as Regionary Bishop for England who, on June 29, 1913, consecrated:

HRH Prince Rudolph Edouard de Landes Berghes as Regionary Bishop for Scotland who, on October 4, 1916, consecrated:

Marchenna

Carmel Henry Carfora as Archbishop of Canada who, on April 16, 1941, consecrated:

Richard Arthur Marchenna as Suffragan Bishop of Newark who, on October 9, 1961,consecrated:

Robert Alfred Burns as his Vicar General and Suffragan Bishop of Chicago-Westville who, on October 6, 1973, consecrated: ⁱ

Andrew Gordon Johnston-Cantrell as Bishop-Coadjutor for the North American Province of the English Rite, Old Roman Catholic Church who, on November 30, 1974, consecrated: ⁱⁱ

Burns

Johnston-
Cantrell

Francis Peter Facione as Titular Bishop of Devon and Bishop-Coadjutor for the North American Province of the English Rite who, on April 12, 1975 consecrated Joseph Patrick Napurano as Titular Bishop of Port Royal and also, on February 4, 1989, consecrated Raphael John Adams as Titular Bishop of Selsey and Bishop Suffragan of Michigan and the Central States and also, on June 5, 1993, consecrated Patrick Herbert King, as Second Bishop of the Western Regionary Diocese of the Old Roman Catholic Church in North America. ⁱⁱⁱ

^IOn May II, 1963, Bishop Robert Alfred Bums entered into union with the English Rite Old Roman Catholic Church in Great Britain which union created the North American Province of the English Rite with Bishop Bums as Archbishop-Metropolitan. He held this post until his retirement on April 20, 1974.He was succeeded by Andrew G. Johnston-Cantrell

ⁱⁱ Bishop Johnston-Cantrell resigned on January 5, 1975 and was succeeded by his Coadjutor, Bishop Francis P. Facione.

ⁱⁱⁱ On April 12, 1975, the Synod of the North American Province of the English Rite confirmed Bishop Facione's succession, electing him Titular Archbishop of Devon and also First Bishop of the Diocese of Michigan and the Central States, The Old Roman Catholic Church in North America. The Synod also changed the legal title of the Church to the Old Roman Catholic Church in North America-Ultrajectine Tradition and severed its relationship with the English Rite, Old Roman Catholic Church in Great Britain.

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