THE APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION of the FCGM Synod of the Hebrew Church of the East in America with Some Names in the Context of History

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THE APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION of the FCGM Synod of the Hebrew Church of the East in America With Some Names in the Context of History

+ + +OF THE PRESIDING BISHOP [THE MOST REVEREND SAM T. LEIGH, P.TH.D.] + + +AND THE EXECUTIVE BISHOP [THE RIGHT REVEREND DAVID L. LATHROP, D.B.S.]

FROM THE FOUNDER: OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, MESSIAH OF ISRAEL AND THE WORLD

St. Peter, who wrote his Catholic Epistle from Babylon [Shimun Keepa I Peter, 1:1 and 5.13] St. Thomas, who after establishing the Church in Edessa, King Agbar, all of Mesopotamia, Persia and their environment, went to India

HEBREW SUCCESSION Y [Tooma Shlikha] a c Thomas, the Twin arrived in India o b Bar Tulmay ,

Addi ]or Addai]Shlikha R e [St. Jude Thaddeus] l a Agai, Disciple of Addai, t from the 70 Disciples» i v Mari, Disciple of Addai e

Reputed arrival of first missionaries to China o f Abris, Relative of the Virgin Mary Y Gospel carried to the Gilanians and a the lands of Gog and Magog s i Oraham I, of Kashkar p

1 [Joseph] the Carpenter DATE

Pantaenus visited India 33-73

Edid M'shikha 49-52

Akhu d'Awu 33

33-45

45-81

48-81

90-107

120-140

130-152

170-190

185

191-203

205-220

2 HEBREW SUCCESSION DATE

Shakhulpa of Kashkar 224-244

Papa Bar Gaggai 247-326 First Catholicos of Seleucia-Ctesiphon

Probable date of Asoka inscriptions and edicts 300

Arnobius speaks of the Chinese as united in the faith of Christ 303

Ephraim born 303

Christianity of Byzantium, official in the Roman Empire 313

Council of Nicea, Ephraem wrote Nicene Creed 325

Shimun Bar Sabbai 328-341

First Persian Persecution — Sapor II 339-379

Knai Thomas arrives to Malabar Coast 345

Shahdust 345-347

Bar Bashmin 350-358

Theophilus the Indian, from the Island of Divu, consecrated Bishop 356

Tumarsa 383-393

Qaiyuma 393-399

Eskhaq 399-411

Akhkhi 411-415

Unalaha I 415-420

Bahram V — Second Persian persecution 420

Maana 420-

Qarahukht 421-

Dadishu 421-456

Title of Patriarch first conferred on Catholicos of Seleucia 424

3 HEBREW SUCCESSION DATE

Yezdegerd II Third Persian persecution 448 The Massacre of Kirkuk

Bawai or Bahu 457-484

Aqaq 484-496

Bawai 496-502

Sheela 505-523

Narsa Dual Patriarchate 524-535

Visit of Cosmas 523

Elisha 524-538

Polos 539-540

Yosip 552-567

Khazqiyil 570-581

Eshuyow I, Arzunaya 581-595

Horoscope of Krishna, August 7 600

Sorishu I Garmaqaya 596-604

Greghar, Partaya 605-606

Taisin(Judea) Church comes to the Tang Dynasty. China 618-45

Shuyow II [Edalaya or Arab] 626-644

Metropolitans appointed to

Samarkand, India, and China 628-643

Mar Immeih 647-650

Eshuyow III,

Kdayawaya 650-660

GewargisI 681-684

Yokhannan I, Bar Marta 684-692

4 HEBREW SUCCESSION DATE

Khnaishu I 686-693

Yokhannan II, Garba 693-694

Sliwazkha 714-728

Perhyon 731-740

Visit of Christian Physician to Japan and reported conversion of Empress 724-748

Awa 741-751

Surin 752-754

Yacob II 754-773

Khnanishu II 774-778 [China Monument erected in his reign]

Christianity dominant religion in China 780

Erection of Nestorian monument in China 781

Timotheus 780-820

Eshu-barnon 820-824

Copper plate charters of Christians of St. Thomas 822

Gewargis II 825-832

Soreshu II 832-836

Edict of suppression of Christians in China 845

Teadasis [of Theodoros] 850-852

Sargis, Suwaya 860-872

Annush d"beth Garma 873-884

Yokhannan III, Bar Narsay 884-892

Yokhannan IV, 892-898 [Nephew ofTheodoros]

Yokhannan V, Bar Ogare 900-905

5 HEBREW SUCCESSION DATE

Oraham III, Abraza 906-937

Ammanaoel I 937-949

Esrail Karkhaua 961 -962

Odishu Garmaqaya 963-936

Mari Aturaya 967-1000 Yokhannan VI [Yaoannis] 1001-1012

First Muhammadan invasion of India 1001

Conversion of Keraits 1007

Yokhannan VII, [BarNazuk] 1013-1022

Eshyow IV 1023-1027

Elia I [Terhan] 1028-1049

Yokhannan VII [Bar Tragala] 1049-1057

Soreshu III [Bar Zanhur] 1057-1072

Odishu II [Bar Ars] Aturaya 1072-1090

Makkikha I [Bar Shlemon] 1092-1109

Elia II [Bar Maqli] 1111-1132

Bar Soma [of Suwa] 1133-1135

Bar Gabbara 1135-1136

Legend of Prester John 1143

Odishu III [Nephew of Elia II] 1133-1147

Eshuyow V [From Beth Zodai, Baladaya 1023-1027

Elia III [Abukhalim] 1148-1175

6 HEBREW SUCCESSION DATE

Rise of power of Jenghiz Khan 1206

Yoalaha II [Bar Qaiyama] 1191-1222

Patna, India, a metropolitan See 1222

Sorishu IV 1222-1226

Sorishu V [From Baghdad] 1226-1256

Kubla Khan first emperor of a United China 1259

Makkikha II 1257-1265

Rise of empire of Vijayanagar 1259

Dinka I [Arbilyay, i.e., from Arbil] 1265-1281

Yoalaha III [Bar Turkaye, i.e., Turkish by race] 1281-1318

Timotheus II [Arbilaya, i.e., from Arbil] 1318-1328

Extirpation of Christianity in China under the Ming Dynasty 1369

Dinkha II 1329-1359

Dinkha III 1359-1368

Shimun III 1369-1392

Tamerlane's domination 1366-1405

Sack of Delhi by Tamerlane 1398

Shimun IV 1403-1407

Elia III 1407-1420

Shimun V 1420-1447

Shimun VI 1448-1490

EliaV 1491-1504

7 HEBREW SUCCESSION DATE

Portuguese arrive in India 1500

Appointment of metropolitan to Java 1503

A thousand Christians in service of king of Pegu in Burma 1506

Shimun VH 1505-1538

St. Francis Zavier arrives to India 1542

Eshuyow Shimun VII 1538-1551

Dinkha Shimun IX [Ba rMama] 1552-1558

Yualaha Shimun X 1558-1580

Dinkha Shimun XI 1580-1600

Synod of Diamper in Malabar 15 99

Discovery of Nestorian Monument in China 1625

Elia Shimun XII 1600-1653

Coonen Cross secession 1653

Eshuyow Shimun XIII 1653-1690

Yoalaha Shimun XIV 1690-1692

Dinkha Shimun XV 1692-1700

Numbers of Christians in armies of the Mahrattas 1714

Shlemon [Sulaiman] Shimun XVI 1700-1740

Mikhail [Mukhattis] Shimun XVII 1740-1741

Yonan [Yuna] Shimun XVIII 1740-1820

Islam, by Tippu Sultan forces conversions of Christians to Islam 1784

8 HEBREW SUCCESSION DATE

Breach between C.M.S. Missionaries and Jacobite metropolitan 1837

Oraham Shimun XIX 1820-1860

Mar Thoma Syrian Christian annual convention at Maramann begun 1896

Ruwil Shimun XX 1860-1903

In order to restore the Syro-Chaldean jurisdiction in Inid, on the Church of Mar Saba, 17th of December, 1862, Upper Tiari, Kurdistan, consecrated: Mar Abdeeso Antonios, Metropolitan of the Syro-Chaldean Christians of Malabar, India, [The Most Reverend Thondanat Anthony].

He consecrated, Mar Basilius, Metropolitan of India, Ceylon, Mylapore, Socotra and Messina [The Most Reverend Luis Mariana Soares] on the 24th of July, 1899, in the Syro-Chaldean Cathedral, Trichur, Cochin, India.

He consecrated Mar Jacobus, Bishop of Mercia and Middlesex [Rt. Rev. Ulric Vernon Hereford] on the 30th of November, 1902, in the Church of the Epiphany, Pallithanam, Madura District, South India.

He consecrated Mar Paulus, Bishop of Kent [The Rt. Rev. William Stanley McBean Knight], October 18, 1931, in the Chapel of St. John, Pembridge Castle, Monmouth, England.

In order to restore the Syro-Chaldean jurisdiction in Inid, on the 17th of December, 1862, in the Church of Mar Saba, Upper Tiari, Kurdistan, consecrated: Mar Abdeeso Antonios,

Metropolitan of the Syro-Chaldean Christians of Malabar, India, [The Most Reverend Thondanat Anthony].

9 HEBREW SUCCESSION DATE

He consecrated Mar Jacobus, Bishop of Mercia and Middlesex [Rt. Rev. Ulric Vernon Hereford] on the 30th of November, 1902, in the Church of the Epiphany, Pallithanam, Madura District, South India.

He consecrated Mar Paulus, Bishop of Kent [The Rt. Rev. William Stanley McBean Knight], October 18, 1931, in the Chapel of St. John, Pembridge Castle, Monmouth, England.

He consecrated Mar Hedley, Bishop of Siluria, August 15, 1938, succeeding Administrator of the Syro-Chaldean Metropolitan See of India, Shri-Lanka, Mylapore, Socotra, and Messina.

He consecrated Mar Georgius I, Patriarch of Glastonbury, Apostolic Primate of the West, Administrator of the Syro-Chaldean Metropolitan See of India, Shri-Lanka, Mylapore. Socotra, and Messina, on May 20th, 1945, in the Chapel of St. John, Pembridge Castle. He consecrated [conditionally] Mar Boltwood [The Most Rev. Dr. Charles Boltwood], a bishop of another catholic communion, in London, England on April 13, 1952.

He consecrated Mar Yokhannan [The Rt. Rev. John M. Stanley] as Bishop of Washington in the Pro-Cathedral Church of St. Andrews, London, England, on May 3rd, 1959. A year later Mar Boltwood granted

Mar Yokhannan full power and authority to rule an autocephalous church.

An Ecumenical Patriarch, Mar Georgius elevated Mar Yokhannan to Metropolitan of the United States, April 10, 1963, further to Metropolitan of North America on December 4, 1965.

The Church in the United States was first given the name Syro-Chaldean Diocese of Washington. Then, as part of the North American archdiocese, the Church used the name Chaldean Church of the East [Similar to the Chaldean-Syrian Church of India.]

10 HEBREW SUCCESSION DATE

Mar Yokhannan, The Most Rev. John M. Stanley, consecrated the Rt. Rev. Floyd W. Newman, Cor-Episcopa, as Bishop, in the Church of the Resurrection, Bremerton, Washington, on October 12, 1989.

GREEK ORTHODOX APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION OF MAR YOKHANNAN [THE MOST REVEREND JOHN M. STANLEY] AND THE RT. REV. FLOYD W. NEWMAN [BISHOP THADDEUS].

Bishop Joachim Souis of the Greek Orthodox Diocese of New York and Archbishop Theodotus of the Syro-Russian Orthodox Church consecrated Bishop Walter Myron Propheta in 1964, in the Cathedral Church of the Holy Resurrection.

Archbishop Theokotos, Old Calendar Greek Orthodox of Salamis, Greece, and Archbishop Theodotus [Syro-Russian Orthodox] elevated and consecrated as Archbishop, Bishop Walter Myron Propheta in 1965, in the Cathedral Church of the Holy Resurrection.

Archbishop Walter Myron Propheta, was elected Patriarch by the Holy Synod of the American Orthodox Catholic Church. He took the name Wlodymer I as Patriarch. Wolodymer I [Archbishop Walter Myron Propheta] with Economia consecrated (sub-conditione)] on November 18, 1971, in the Cathedral Church of the Holy Resurrection, Mar Yokhannan [Most Rev. John Marion Stanley] and appointed him as Exarch Plenipotentiary.

After the death of Wolodymer I, the church body under the jurisdiction of Mar Yokhannan, having voted at a Holy Synod in 1978, changed their official church name to the Orthodox Church of the East, or OCE. To clarify the geographic location, sometimes it is referred to as the Orthodox Church of the East in America.

Mar Hokhanan, The Most Rev. John M. Stanley, consecrated Cor-Episcopa, The Rt. Rev. Floyd W. Newman, to Bishop in the Church of the Resurrection, Bremerton, Washington, on October 12, 1989.

Apostolic Succession of Mar Yokochanon [Most Reverend John Marion Stanley] and the Rt. Reverend Floyd W. Newman, Bishop [Thaddeus].

Archbishop Tikon of the U.S. [later Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church] consecrated Bishop Raphael and Archbishop Evdokin [who succeeded Tikhon as Archbishop of the U.S].

Archbishop Tikhon and Archbishop Evdokin consecrated Archbishop Aftimos Ofeish and Bishop Zuk [Ukrainian Orthodox].

11 Archbishop Evdokin and Bishop Zuk consecrated Archbishop Ignatius Nikols and Bishop Ambrosius [Russian Orthodox].

Archbishop Ignatius Nikos and Bishop Ambrosius consecrated Archbishop Tehodotus [Syro- Russian].

Archbishop Theodotus and Archbishop Theokotos [Old Calendar Greek Orthodox, Salamis, Greece] consecrated Archbishop Walter Myron Propheta, in 1965.

Archbishop Walter Myron Propheta was elevated to Patriarch by the Holy Synod of the American Orthodox Catholic Church, taking the name Voldymer I.

Woldymer I with Economia, consecrated on November 18, 1971, in the Cathedral Church of the Holy Resurrection, Mar Yokhannan [Most Rev. John Marion Stanley] and appointed him as Exarch Plenipotentiary.

After the death of Wolodymer I, the Church body under Mar Yokhanan's jurisdiction, having voted at a Holy Synod in 1978 changed their official church name to the Orthodox Church of the East. [O.C.E.] Sometimes OCEA, Orthodox church of the East in America.

The Most Rev. John M. Stanley consecrated the Rt. Rev. Floyd W. Newman, Cor-Episcopa [Piryadhotha] to Bishop in the Church of the Resurrection, in Bremerton, Washington, on October 12, 1989.

12 SUCCESSION DATE

After the death of Wolodymer I, the Church body under Mar Yokhanan's jurisdiction, having voted at the Holy Synod in 1978 changed their official Church name to Orthodox Church of the East. [O.C.E.] Sometimes OCEA, Orthodox church of the East in America.

The Most Rev. John M. Stanley consecrated the Rt. Rev. Floyd W. Newman, Cor-Episcopa [Piradhotha] to Bishop In the Church of the Resurrection, in Bremerton, WA, on October 12, 1989

President [pro temp], Bishop Floyd W. Newman, M.A., Ph.D, consecrated the Righr Rev. Bishop Rick Willans at the Church Of The Holy Spirit, Oklahoma City, OK September 14, 1997

Messianic Director, Fr.& Rabbi John Casillas by Bishops Floyd W. Newman, Terry A. Lowe, Michael SD. Owen with CoConsecrators, Stephen M. Gleidere, OSM and Cecil G. Kline, O.S.T. at the Church Of The Holy Spirit, Oklahoma City, OK September 14,1997

Director Bishop J. Stone Willans by Bishops Floyd W. Newman, Arch-Bishop Joseph Vredenburg, Bishop Rick Willans at St Thomas Chapel, San Jose, CA February 7, 1998

Bishop Leroy Mikels, Th.D., by Bishop Floyd W. Newman with Co-consecrators, Bishop Rick Willans, and Bishop J.Stone Willans at Altadena, CA July 1, 2000

Bishop Rabbi Robert W. Benbow, by Bishop Floyd W. Newman with Co-consecrators Bishop Rick Willans and Bishop J. Stone Willans at Altadena, CA July 1, 2000

Bishop Lawrence E. Day, Th.D., by Bishop Floyd W. Newman With Co-consecrators Bishop Rick Willans and Bishop J.Stone Willans at Altadena, CA July 1, 2000

Bishop Kung Ae Day, by Bishop Leroy Mikels with Co-consecrator Bishop Lawrence E. Day at Kelso, WA June 6, 1005

Bishop Iris I. Koch, D.D., by Bishop Leroy Mikels with Co-consecrator Bishop Lawrence Day at Kelso, WA June 6, 2005

Bishop Audrey N. Mikels, D.B.S., by Bishop Lawrence E. Day With Co-consecrator Bishop Leroy Mikels at Kelso, WA June 6, 2005

Bishop Lempi Sample, D.C.C., by Bishop Leroy Mikels With Co-consecrator Bishop Lawrence E. Day at Kelso, Wa June 6, 2005

13 Hebrew Succession of the Council of Bishops of the FCGM - Synod of the Hebrew Church of the East in America, Hebrew Apostles, The Most Reverend Bishop Sam T. Leigh, P.Th.D. and The Right Reverend Bishop David L. Lathrop, D.B.S. ,

Bishop Sam T. Leigh, D.D., B.C.E., By Bishop Leroy Mikels With Co-consecrator Bishop Audrey N. Mikels at Kelso, WA November 12, 2005

Bishop David Lynn Lathrop, B.C.M., By Bishop Leroy Mikels With Co-consecrator Bishop Audrey N. Mikels at Kelso, WA November 12, 2005

Bishop Kizhakkevila Varghese Daniel, By Bishop Sam T. Leigh With Co-consecrator Bishop David L. Lathrop at Destiny of Hope Fellowship in Aberdeen, WA July 30, 2006

Bishop Jeremiah O. Owuor, By Bishop Sam T. Leigh With Co-consecrator Bishop David L. Lathrop at The Upper-Room Fellowship in Everett WA April 6, 2008

Bishop (Albert) TOGBEDJI Adadé Mawuko, by Authority of Bishop Sam T. Leigh and Bishop David L. Lathrop, through proxy, by the laying on of hands by Bishop Michael Appiah Gyamfi and Bishop Andre Ezoua at Freedom Covenant Church Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa May 12, 2008

Bishop Aaron B. Greene, By Bishop Sam T. Leigh With Co-consecrator Bishop David L. Lathrop at The Upper-Room Fellowship in Everett WA July 27, 2008