Old Catholic, English Line
SHORTLY AFTER the outbreak of World War I, Archbishop, the Earl decided that it was necessary to make arrangements for the safeguarding of the succession and called upon his priests to elect a suitable candidate for the Episcopate. They elected the Reverened Frederick Willoughby, a former Anglican Clergyman, who was duly consecrated as recorded below, but whose connection with the Old Catholic Church in Great Britain was formally terminated on May 19, 1915 and he eventually submitted to Rome. Archbishop Mathew died on December 20, 1919, by which time the movement had become known as The Old Roman Catholic Church in Great Britain.
Thereafter a more pro-Roman policy was adopted. In 1914 a decision was made to restore the original Old Catholic as distinct from Old Roman Catholic basis and the following line of succession came into being:
Arnold Harris Mathew, who on October 28, 1914, consecrated:
Frederick Samuel Willoughby, who on July 9, 1922, consecrated:
James Bartholomew Banks, James I. Sovereign Primate and Primate of The Service Church, who on May 28,1940 consecrated:
Sidney Ernest Page Needham, who on January 4, 1945, consecrated:
Hugh George de Willmott Newman, Mar Georgius I, who on July 6, 1956, consecrated:
Charles Dennis Boltwood, who on October 16, 1966, consecrated:
Albert J. Fuge, who of May 27, 1972, consecrated:
John Lawrence Brown, who on December 31,1973, consecrated:
Donald Lawrence Jolly, who on March 16,1980, consecrated:
Robert Vincent Bernard Dawe, who on October 18,1981, consecrated:
Francis Thorne-Coley, who on August 20, 1998, consecrated:
Lee Allen Petersen, who on April 26, 2009 consecrated:
Mansell Christian Gilmore, who on January 30, 2001 consecrated:
Bryan Dennis Ouellette, Ph.d., in ecclesia, Nicholas III, Patriarch, by acclamation and fiat, Holy Nicholean Church, Patriarch, by election and acclamation, Holy Imperial Russian Orthodox Church in exile.
