The Complete Apostolic Succession conveyed to the Rt. Rev. Robert Angus Jones 13th Revised Edition: 31 October 2013 The Complete Apostolic Succession conveyed to the Rt. Rev. Robert Angus Jones 13th Revised Edition: 31 October 2013 © Robert Angus Jones 2001 – 2013 All Rights Reserved. Please contact the author to inquire about reproduction and use of this document. Please contact Bishop Jones with any Corrections or Changes. [email protected] or Rev. RobAngus Jones 120 Lichtenberg Ave. Sonoma, Ca. 95476 2 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 4 CONSECRATIONS AND EXCHANGES ............................................................................................................................................................. 4 APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION IN THE WEST ........................................................................................................................................................ 5 CLASSIFICATION SCHEMA IN THIS DOCUMENT............................................................................................................................................ 6 NOTES ON COUNTING ................................................................................................................................................................................. 7 NOTES ON THE PASSING OF LINES ............................................................................................................................................................... 7 RESEARCH NOTE .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 7 WESTERN APOSTOLIC CHURCHES ..................................................................................................................................................... 8 ANGLICAN: APOSTOLIC CATHOLIC CHURCH IN ENGLAND ....................................................................................................................... 8 ANGLICAN: EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE USA (WM. M. BROWN) ........................................................................................................... 12 ANGLICAN: REFORMED EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE US (CUMMINS) ...................................................................................................... 13 ANGLICAN: FREE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH (CHECKEMIAN) ..................................................................................................... 14 ANGLICAN: PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENT CHURCH (PAGTAKHAN) ............................................................................................................. 16 ANGLICAN: THE METHODIST CHURCH (WESLEY) .................................................................................................................................... 18 OLD CATHOLIC: UNION OF UTRECHT (GUL) ............................................................................................................................................. 20 OLD CATHOLIC CHURCH OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND (MATHEW) ................................................................................................. 22 OLD CATHOLIC: MARIAVITE CATHOLIC (KOWALSKI) .............................................................................................................................. 27 OLD CATHOLIC: LIBERAL CATHOLIC (WEDGWOOD) ................................................................................................................................ 29 ROMAN CATHOLIC: MEXICAN NATIONAL CATHOLIC CHURCH .............................................................................................................. 33 ROMAN CATHOLIC: BRAZIL (DUARTE COSTA) ......................................................................................................................................... 34 ROMAN CATHOLIC: VIETNAM (NGO DINH THUC) .................................................................................................................................. 39 CHALCEDONIAN (“BYZANTINE”) ORTHODOX ............................................................................................................................ 40 ORTHODOX CHURCH OF ALBANIA (NOLI) ................................................................................................................................................ 40 AMERICAN ORTHODOX CATHOLIC (OFIESH) ............................................................................................................................................ 41 ORTHODOX CHURCH IN AMERICA ............................................................................................................................................................ 46 ORTHODOX CHURCH OF CYPRUS .............................................................................................................................................................. 47 GREEK ORTHODOX: OLD CALENDAR SYNOD ............................................................................................................................................ 48 RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (KLEEFISCH) ............................................................................................................................................. 49 RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH IN AMERICA (WENDLAND) ...................................................................................................................... 52 AMERICAN EXARCHATE OF THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (FEDTSCHENKOV) ................................................................................. 53 RUSSIAN ORTHODOX: THE LIVING CHURCH (KLIMOVICZ)........................................................................................................................ 55 RUSSIAN ORTHODOX: THE LIVING CHURCH (VVEDENSKY) ...................................................................................................................... 57 SLAVONIC ORTHODOX (PRAZSKY)............................................................................................................................................................. 58 ORIENTAL ORTHODOX (SO-CALLED “MONOPHYSITE” AND “NESTORIAN”) ................................................................. 60 SYRIAN ORTHODOX “JACOBITE” CHURCH OF ANTIOCH (FERRETTE) ........................................................................................................ 60 MAR THOMA (MALABAR) CHURCHES OF INDIA (VILATTE) ...................................................................................................................... 62 AFRICAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (MCGUIRE) ............................................................................................................................................. 67 ASSYRIAN CHURCH OF THE EAST (SOARES) .............................................................................................................................................. 68 “UNIATE” CHURCHES ............................................................................................................................................................................ 71 GREEK MELKITE CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ANTIOCH (ANEED) ................................................................................................................... 71 CHALDEAN CHURCH OF BABYLON (LEFBERNE) ........................................................................................................................................ 73 QUESTIONABLE AND ERRONEOUS APOSTOLIC LINEAGES ................................................................................................... 76 THE ANCIENT BRITISH / CELTIC CHURCHES IN IRELAND AND WALES .................................................................................................... 76 ROMAN CATHOLIC: ORDER OF CORPORATE REUNION ............................................................................................................................. 78 ROMAN CATHOLIC: MEXICO (SANCHEZ Y CAMACHO) ............................................................................................................................. 80 GREEK ORTHODOX: PATRIARCHATE OF JERUSALEM .................................................................................................................................. 82 ETHIOPIAN / COPTIC ORTHODOX (KRISTOS) ............................................................................................................................................ 83 ETHIOPIAN / COPTIC ORTHODOX (HICKERSON)....................................................................................................................................... 85 ARMENIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF CILICIA (CHECKEMIAN) .................................................................................................................... 86 APPENDICES: ALTERNATE LINES, AND CHARTS ........................................................................................................................ 88 1. EXCHANGE OF LINEAGE BETWEEN MAXEY AND DE WILLMOTT NEWMAN ........................................................................................... 88 2. ALTERNATE LINES FROM MAXEY ........................................................................................................................................................... 89 3. ALTERNATE