THE CELTIC CROSS COMMUNION INTERNATIONAL

Celtic Cross Communion International

The Celtic Cross Communion International is the home of many Churches gathered into one Communion. 

Our story came out of the prayer and hope of Jesus in John 17:21, “…that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you.  May they also be in us so the world may believe that you have sent me.” 

Initially, in 2009, God extended a personal call that broke the ground for the Celtic Cross Foundation of Ministry. By 2021, the Ministry had grown into an International Communion of Clerics and Lay Faithful. Together we brought different scattered churches around the world to form a church after the very heart and vision of Jesus Christ for the new millennium. We have evolved into the Celtic Cross Communion International, an institution officially registered as a non-profit organization in the State of Pennsylvania (established in 2022).

As of this date, the Celtic Cross Communion International consists of the following church groups as regular and affiliated members: 

Old Catholic, Evangelical, Anglican, Orthodox, Pentecostal, Charismatic and Episcopal churches. Our different actions for ministry include: 

  • Ministry for the sick and elderly, 
  • Ministry for those in substance abuse, 
  • Ministry to the orphans and widows, 
  • Ministry to those who are victims of human trafficking and injustice, 
  • Ministry for victims of domestic violence,
  • Ministry to prisoners, 
  • Ministry to families and children, 
  • Ministry to tribal communities, 
  • Ministry of prayer and pilgrimages.

The Celtic Cross Communion memberships are found in the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, Dominican Republic, Haiti, India, Pakistan, West Africa, Nigeria, and Uganda.

Catering to the spiritual needs of many from all walks and backgrounds of Christian Spiritual Faiths, we continue to grow and welcome others to join us.

Contact email:
celticcrosscommuni[email protected]

Disclaimer: The Celtic Cross Communion International is NOT a funding agency Church. We operate as self sufficient church ministry in each church branch. We also operate as independent church branches yet in full communion with the Mother Church: The Celtic Cross Communion International.

APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION


Apostolic Succession…

In Christianity, the teaching that Bishops represent a direct, uninterrupted line of continuity from the Apostles of Jesus Christ. 

According to this teaching, Bishops possess certain special powers handed down to them from the Apostles; these consist primarily of the right to confirm Church members, to ordain Priests, to consecrate other Bishops, and to govern over the Clergy and Church members in their Diocese (an area made up of several congregations).

AD 95 Clement, Bishop of Rome, in his letter to the church in Corinth (First Letter of Clement), expressed the view that Bishops succeeded the Apostles. The Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Old Catholic, Swedish Lutheran, and Anglican Churches accept the doctrine of Apostolic succession and believe that the only valid ministry is based on Bishops whose office has descended from the Apostles.

The Apostolic Succession of the Imperial Patriarchate passes through Roman and Eastern Bishops to the Apostles and Jesus Christ. The documentary terminus of the Apostolic lineage of the Imperial Patriarchate is, like that of Old Roman Catholics in general, older than that of the modern Roman Communion by over a century. The Apostolic lineage passed to the Imperial Patriarchate in unbroken succession includes not only the founder of its legacy, Pope Leo X, but also Pope St. Pius V, Pope Paul III, Pope Clement VIII, and Pope Urban VIII, the Medici Popes Clement VII and Leo XI, among other Popes, as well as Patriarchs of Jerusalem and Constantinople, and several princes and electors of the Holy Roman Empire.

ROMAN CATHOLIC (Primary)

+Jesus Christ+ to Apostles James, John, Andrew, Simon, Matthew, Jude, Bartholomew, Phillip, James, Thomas, Peter and their successors, the Bishops of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, 33 A.D. to 1566 A.D.


1. St. Peter the Apostle
2. St. Linus
3. St. Anacletus
4. St. Clement I
5. St. Evaristus
6. St. Alexander I
7. St. Sixtus I
8. St. Telephorus
9. St. Hyginus
10. St. Pius I
11. St. Anicetus
12. St. Soter
13. St. Eleutherius
14. St. Victor I
15. St. Zephyrinus
16. St. Callistus I
17. St. Urban I
18. St. Pontian
19. St. Anterus
20. St. Fabian
21. St. Cornelius
22. St. Lucius I
23. St. Stephen I
24. St. Sixtus II
25. St. Dionysius
26. St. Felix I
27. St. Eutychian
28. St. Caius
29. St. Mercellinus
30. St. Marcellus I
31. St. Eusebius
32. St. Miltiades
33. St. Sylvester
34. St. Mark
35. St. Julius I
36. St. Liberius
37. St. Damascus
38. St. Siricius
39. St. Anastasius I
40. St. Innocent I
41. St. Zosimus
42. St. Boniface I
43. St. Celestine I
44. St. Sixtus III
45. St. Leo I The Great
46. St. Hilarus
47. St. Simplicius
48. St. Felix III
49. St. Gelasius I
50. Anastasius II
51. St. Symmachus
52. St. Hormisdas
53. St. John I
54. St. Felix IV
55. Boniface II
56. St. John II
57. St. Agapitus I
58. St. Silverius
59. Vigilius
60. Palagius I
61. John III
62. Benedict I
63. Pelagius II
64. St. Gregory I The Great
65. Sabinianus
66. Boniface III
67. St. Boniface IV

68. St. Adeodatus I
69. Boniface V
70. Honorius I
71. Severinus
72. John IV
73. Theodore I
74. St. Martin I
75. St. Eugenius I
76. St. Vitalian
77. Adeodatus II
78. Donus
79. St. Agatho
80. St. Leo II
81. St. Benedict II
82. John V
83. Conon
84. St. Sergius I
85. John VI
86. John VII
87. Sissinius
88. Constantine
89. St. Gregory II
90. St. Gregory III
91. St. Zacharias
92. Stephen II
93. St. Paul I
94. Stephen III
95. Adrian I
96. St. Leo III
97. Stephen IV
98. St. Paschal I
99. Eugenius II
100. Valentine
101. Gregory IV
102. Sergius II
103. St. Leo IV
104. Benedict III
105. St. Nicholas I
106. Adrian II
107. John VIII
108. Marinus I
109. St. Adrian III
110. Stephen V
111. Formosus
112. Boniface VI
113. Stephen VI
114. Romanus
115. Theodore II
116. John IX
117. Benedict IV
118. Leo V
119. Sergius III
120. Anastasius III
121. Lando
122. John X
123. Leo VI
124. John XI
125. Leo VII
126. Stephen VII
127. Stephen VIII
128. Marinus II
129. Agapetus II
130. John XII
131. Leo VIII
132. Benedict V
133. John XIII
134. Benedict VI
135. Benedict VII

136. John XIV
137. John XV
138. Gregory V
139. Sylvester II
140. John XVII
141. John XVIII
142. Sergius IV
143. Benedict VIII
144. John XIX
145. Benedict IX
146. Sylvester III
147. Gregory VI
148. Clement II
149. Damasus II
150. St. Leo IX
151. Victor II
152. Stephen IX
153. Nicholas II
154. Alexander II
155. St. Gregory VII
156. Blessed Victor III
157. Blessed Urban II
158. Paschal II
159. Gelasiur II
160. Callistus II
161. Honorius II
162. Innocent II
163. Celestine II
164. Lucius II
165. Blessed Eugenius III
166. Anastasius IV
167. Adrian IV
168. Alexander III
169. Lucius III
170. Urban III
171. Gregory VIII
172. Clement III
173. Celestine III
174. Innocent III
175. Honorius III
176. Gregory IX
177. Celestine IV
178. Innocent IV
179. Alexander IV
180. Urban IV
181. Clement IV
182. Blessed Gregory X
183. Blessed Innocent V
184. Adrian V
185. John XXI
186. Nicholas III
187. Martin IV
188. Honorius IV
189. Nicholas IV
190. St. Celestine V
191. Boniface VIII
192. Blessed Benedict XI
193. Clement V
194. John XXII & Nicholas V
195. Benedict XII
196. Clement VI
197. Innocent VI
198. Blessed Urban V
199. Gregory XI
200. Urban VI
201. Boniface IX
202. Innocent VII
203. Gregory XII

204. Martin V
205. Eugenius IV
206. Nicholas V
207. Callistus III
208. Pius II
209. Paul II
210. Sixtus IV
211. Innocent VIII
212. Alexander VI
213. Pius III
214. Julius II
215. Leo X
216. Adrian VI
217. Clement VII
218. Paul III
219. Julius III
220. Marcellus II
221. Paul IV
222. Pius IV
223. St. Pius V
224. Gregory XIII
225. Sixtus V
226. Urban VII
227. Gregory XIV
228. Innocent IX
229. Clement VIII
230. Leo XI
231. Paul V
232. Gregory XV
233. Urban VIII
234. Innocent X
235. Alexander VII
236. Antonio Cardinal Barberini
237. Charles Maurice Letellier
238. Jacques Benigne Bossuet
239. Jacques Goyon de Matignon
240. Dominique Marie Varlet
241. Petrus Johannes Meindaerts
242. Johannes van Stiphout
243. Walter van Nieuwenhuisen
244. Adrian Broekman
245. Johannes Jacobus van Rhijn
246. Gijsbert de Jong
247. Willibrord van Os
248. Johannes Bon
249. Johannes van Santen
250. Herman Heykamp
251. Gaspard Johannes Rinkel
252. Gerardus Gul
253. Arnold Harris Mathew
254. Rudolph de Landes Berghes
255. Carmel Henry Carfora
256. Earl Anglin James
257. Grant Timothy Billet
258. Norman R. Parr
259. Maurice Darryl McCormick
260. Irwin Young
261. Paul Victor Verhaeren &
Wayne Moore Hay
262. Bruce D. Campbell
263. John P. Johnston
264. Sean J. Alexander
265. Darel E. Chase
266. Rutherford Card. Johnson

ROMAN CATHOLIC (Second)

+Jesus Christ+ to Apostles James, John, Andrew, Simon, Matthew, Jude, Bartholomew, Phillip, James, Thomas, Peter and their successors, the Bishops of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, 33 A.D. to 1566 A.D.


1. Scipione Cardinal Rebiba
2. Cardinal Santorio
3. Cardinal Bernerio
4. Archbishop San Vitale
5. Cardinal Ludovisi
6. Cardinal Caetani
7. Cardinal Carpegna
8. Cardinal Altieri
9. Benedict XIII (Orsini)
10. Benedict XIV (Lambertini)
11. Clement XIII (delle Torre Rezzonico)
12. Bernardino Cardinal Giraud

13. Alexander Cardinal Mattei
14. Pietro Franceso Cardinal Galeffi
15. Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni
16. Carlo Cardinal Sacconi
17. Edward Cardinal Howard
18. Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro
19. Joaquim Cardinal Arcoverde de
Albuquerque-Calvacanti
20. Sebastiano Cardinal de Silveira Cintra
21. Carlos Duarte-Costa
22. Salomao Barbosa Ferraz
23. Manuel Ceja Laranjeira
24. Benedito Pereira Lima

25. Jose M. Machado
26. Oscar Fernandez
27. Agusto Montez-Silvieri
28. Gerald Gates
29. Ronald D. Nowlan
30. Paul Victor Verharen & Wayne Moore Hay
31. Bruce D. Campbell
32. John P. Johnston
33. Sean J. Alexander
34. Darel E. Chase
35. Rutherford Card. Johnson

ROMAN CATHOLIC (Third)

+Jesus Christ+ to Apostles James, John, Andrew, Simon, Matthew, Jude, Bartholomew, Phillip, James, Thomas, Peter and their successors, the Bishops of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, 33 A.D. to 1566 A.D.


1. Scipione Cardinal Rebiba
2. Giuglio Cardinal Santorio
3. Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio
4. Galeazzo San Vitale
5. Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi
6. Luigi Cardinal Caetani
7. Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna

8. Paluzzo Cardinal Altieri degli Albertoni
9. Benedict XIII (Orsini)
10. Benedict XIV (Lambertini)

11. Clement XIII (delle Torre Rezzonico)
12. Bernardino Cardinal Giraud
13. Alexander Cardinal Mattei
14. Pietro Franceso Cardinal Galeffi
15. Giacomo Cardinal Fransoni
16. Carlo Cardinal Sacconi
17. Edward Cardinal Howard
18. Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro
19. Joaquim Cardinal Arcoverde de Albuquerque-Calvacanti
20. Josef R.B. Beckertz

21. Henri Louis d’Autel
22. Jean Balland
23. Robert R. Johnson
24. Ronald D. Nowlan
25. Paul Victor Verhaeren & Wayne Moore Hay
26. Bruce D. Campbell
27. John P. Johnston
28. Sean J. Alexander
29. Darel E. Chase
30. Rutherford Card. Johnson

ROMAN CATHOLIC (Fourth)

+Jesus Christ+ to Apostles James, John, Andrew, Simon, Matthew, Jude, Bartholomew, Phillip, James, Thomas, Peter and their successors, the Bishops of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, 33 A.D. to 1566 A.D.


1. Pope Leo XIII
2. Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro
3. Joaquim Cardinal Arcoverde de
Albuquerque-Calvacanti

4. Sebastiano Leme Cardinal de Silveira Cintra
5. Carlos Duarte Costa
6. Milton Cunha
7. Eusebio Pace
8. Antonio Pietroburgo

9. Donald Lawrence
10. Robert Vincent Bernard Dawe
11. Keith Patrick Steinhurst
12. Rutherford Card. Johnson

ROMAN CATHOLIC (Pope Leo X, Prince of Florence – I)

Genealogical Addendum

Saint Louis IX,
King of France

Robert,
Count of Clermont

Peter I,
Duke of Bourbon

Jean VI, Count d’Haricourt

Catherine de Bourbon

Jean d’Estouteville, Lord of Vallemont,
Grand Chamberlain of France

Marguerite d’Haricourt

Guillaume Cardinal d’Estouteville, O.S.B., Archbishop of Rouen, Cardinal Bishop of Ostia

Episcopal Succession

Pope Sixtus IV

Pope Julius II

Raffaele Cardinal Sansone Riario, Cardinal Bishop of Ostia

Pope Leo X

Pope Paul III

Francesco Cardinal Pisani, Cardinal Bishop of Ostia

Alfonso Cardinal Gesualdo di Conza, Archbishop of Naples, Cardinal Bishop of Ostia

Pope Clement VIII

Pietro Cardinal Aldobrandini, Archbishop of Ravenna

Laudivio Cardinal Zacchia, Bishop of Corneto e Montefiascone

Antonio Marcello Cardinal Barberini, Bishop of Senigallia

Marcantonio Cardinal Franciotti, Bishop of Lucca

Giambattista Cardinal Spada, Patriarch of Constanstinople

Carlo Cardinal Pio di Savoia, Bishop of Ferrara

Ercole Visconti, Titular Archbishop of Tamiathis

Wilhelm Egon Cardinal von Fürstenberg, Bishop of Strasbourg, Prince of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg

Armand-Gaston-Maximilien Cardinal de Rohan de Soubise, Bishop of Strasbourg

Louis-François du Plessis de Mornay, O.F.M. Cap., Bishop of Quebec

Dominique-Marie Varlet, Bishop of Baghdad

See Mgr. Varlet in Roman Catholic (Primary) below.

ROMAN CATHOLIC (Pope Leo X, Prince of Florence – II)

Juan Cardinal Pardo de Tavera, Archbishop of Toledo

Antoine Cardinal Perrenot de Granvella, Archbishop of Besançon

Francisco Cardinal Pacheco de Toledo, Archbishop of Burgos

Pope Leo XI (Archbishop of Florence)

Pietro Cardinal Aldobrandini, Archbishop of Ravenna

Laudivio Cardinal Zacchia, Bishop of Corneto e Montefiascone

Antonio Marcello Cardinal Barberini, Bishop of Senigallia

Marcantonio Cardinal Franciotti, Bishop of Lucca

Giambattista Cardinal Spada, Patriarch of Constanstinople

Carlo Cardinal Pio di Savoia, Bishop of Ferrara

Ercole Visconti, Titular Archbishop of Tamiathis

Wilhelm Egon Cardinal von Fürstenberg, Bishop of Strasbourg, Prince of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg

Armand-Gaston-Maximilien Cardinal de Rohan de Soubise, Bishop of Strasbourg

Louis-François du Plessis de Mornay, O.F.M. Cap., Bishop of Quebec

Dominique-Marie Varlet, Bishop of Baghdad

See Mgr. Varlet in Roman Catholic (Primary) below.

ROMAN CATHOLIC (Pope Leo X – Holy Roman Empire Line – I)

Pope Leo X

Pope Clement VII (Archbishop of Florence)

Antonio Cardinal Sanseverino, O.S.Io.Hieros., Archbishop of Taranto

Giovanni Michele Cardinal Saraceni

Pope Pius V

Iñigo Cardinal Avalos de Aragón, O.S.

Scipione Cardinal Gonzaga, Patriarch of Jerusalem

Blondus de Montealto, Patriarch of Jerusalem

Pope Urban VIII

Cosimo Cardinal de Torres, Archbishop of Monreale

Francesco Maria Cardinal Brancaccio

Miguel Juan Balaguer Camarasa, O.S.Io.Hieros., Bishop of Malta

Pope Alexander VII

Max Heinrich von Bayern, Prince Archbishop and Elector of Köln in the Holy Roman Empire

Johann Heinrich von Anethan, Auxiliary Bishop of the Electorate of Köln in the Holy Roman Empire

Wilhelm Egon Cardinal von Fürstenberg, Bishop of Strasbourg, Prince of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg

Armand-Gaston-Maximilien Cardinal de Rohan de Soubise, Bishop of Strasbourg

Louis-François du Plessis de Mornay, O.F.M. Cap., Bishop of Quebec

Dominique-Marie Varlet, Bishop of Baghdad

See Mgr. Varlet in Roman Catholic (Primary) below.

ROMAN CATHOLIC (Pope Leo X – Holy Roman Empire Line – II)

Max Heinrich von Bayern, Prince Archbishop and Elector of Köln in the Holy Roman Empire

(See section above, HRE-I)

Johann Heinrich von Anethan, Auxiliary Bishop of the Electorate of Köln in the Holy Roman Empire

Johann Hugo von Orsbeck, Prince Archbishop and Elector of Trier in the Holy Roman Empire

Maximilian Burmann, Auxiliary Bishop of the Electorate of Trier in the Holy Roman Empire

Wilhelm Egon Cardinal von Fürstenberg, Bishop of Strasbourg, Prince of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg

Armand-Gaston-Maximilien Cardinal de Rohan de Soubise, Bishop of Strasbourg

Louis-François du Plessis de Mornay, O.F.M. Cap., Bishop of Quebec

Dominique-Marie Varlet, Bishop of Baghdad

See Mgr. Varlet in Roman Catholic (Primary) below.

ROMAN CATHOLIC (Pope Leo X – Holy Roman Empire Line – III)

Giovanni Antonio Cardinal Serbelloni, Cardinal Bishop of Ostia

Saint Charles (Cardinal) Borromeo, Archbishop of Milan

Gabriele Cardinal Paleotti, Archbishop of Bologna

Ludovico Cardinal de Torres, Archbishop of Monreale

Giovanni Garzia Cardinal Mellini, Archbishop of Imola

Antonio Albergati, Bishop of Bisceglie

Gereon Otto von Gutmann zu Sobernheim, Auxiliary Bishop of the Electorate of Köln in the Holy Roman Empire

Johannes Pelking, O.F.M. Conv., Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn

Wolther Heinrich von Strevesdorff, O.E.S.A., Auxiliary Bishop of the Electorate of Mainz in the Holy Roman Empire

Johann Philipp von Schönborn, Prince Archbishop and Elector of Mainz in the Holy Roman Empire, Prince Bishop of Würzburg

Stephan Weinberger, Auxiliary Bishop of Würzburg in the Holy Roman Empire

Peter Philipp von Dernbach, Prince Bishop of Würzburg in the Holy Roman Empire

Damian Hartard von Leyen-Hohengeroldseck, Prince Archbishop and Elector of Mainz in the Holy Roman Empire

Adolph Gottfried Volusius, Auxiliary Bishop of the Electorate of Mainz in the Holy Roman Empire

Johann Heinrich von Anethan, Auxiliary Bishop of the Electorate of Köln in the Holy Roman Empire

Johann Hugo von Orsbeck, Prince Archbishop and Elector of Trier in the Holy Roman Empire

Maximilian Burmann, Auxiliary Bishop of the Electorate of Trier in the Holy Roman Empire

Wilhelm Egon Cardinal von Fürstenberg, Bishop of Strasbourg, Prince of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg

Armand-Gaston-Maximilien Cardinal de Rohan de Soubise, Bishop of Strasbourg

Louis-François du Plessis de Mornay, O.F.M. Cap., Bishop of Quebec

Dominique-Marie Varlet, Bishop of Baghdad

See Mgr. Varlet in Roman Catholic (Primary) below.

Principal Sources:

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Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1714, Number 8
Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 5
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Die Bischöfe des Heiligen Römischen Reiches
Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1678, Number 23
Les Nonciatures Apostoliques Permanentes
Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1625, Number 2
Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1604, Number 27
Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 176, Number 14
The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, 20 Sep 1493
Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 3
Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1519, Number 10
Le Petit Épiscopologe, Issue 176, Number 14
The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, 10 Dec 1477
Episcopologio Español, Volume 1500
Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1504, Number 4
The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, 18 Sep 1467
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Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 2

Anglican

+Jesus Christ+ to Apostles James, John, Andrew, Simon, Matthew, Jude, Bartholomew, Phillip, James, Thomas, Peter and their successors, the Bishops of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, 33 A.D. to 1566 A.D.


1. Marco Antonio de Dominis, Archbishop of Spalato
2. George Monteigne, Bishop of Lincoln, later Bishop of London
3. William Laud, Bishop of St. David, later Archbishop of Canterbury
4. Brian Duppa, Bishop of Chichester
5. Gilbert Sheldon, Bishop of London, later Archbishop of Canterbury
6. Henry Compton, Bishop of Oxford, later Bishop of London
7. William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury
8. Thomas White, Bishop of Peterborough
9. George Hickes, Suffragan Bishop of Thetford, later Primus of the
English Non-Jurors
10. James Gadderer, Bishop of Aberdeen
11. Thomas Rattray, Bishop of Dunkeld
12. William Falconer, Bishop of Caithness
13. Robert Kilgour, Bishop of Aberdeen
14. Samuel Seabury, Bishop of Connecticut
15. Thomas J. Claggett, Bishop of Maryland
16. Edward Bass, Bishop of Massachusetts

17. Abraham Jarvis, Bishop of Connecticut
18. Alexander Viets Griswold, Bishop of the Eastern Diocese
19. Henry U. Onderdonk, Bishop of Pennsylvania
20. Samuel A. McCoskry, Bishop of Michigan
21. William E. McLaren, Bishop of Chicago
22. William Montgomery Brown, Bishop of Arkansas
23. Wallace David de Ortega Maxey, Bishop
24. Charles Leslie Saul
25. Hugh George de Willmott Newman, Mar Georgius I, Patriarch of
Glastonbury, Catholicos of the West, 6th British Patriarch
26. Charles D. Boltwood
27. Albert J. Fuge
28. John Lawrence Brown
29. Donald Lawrence Brown
30. Robert Vincent Bernard Dawe
31. Keith Patrick Steinhurst
32. Rutherford Card. Johnson

SEE OF UTRECHT (First)

+Jesus Christ+ to Apostles James, John, Andrew, Simon, Matthew, Jude, Bartholomew, Phillip, James, Thomas, Peter and their successors, the Bishops of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, 33 A.D. to 1566 A.D.


1. Gerardus Gul, Abp. of Utrecht
2. Arnold Harris Mathew
3. Frederick Samuel Willoughby

4. James Bartholomew Banks
5. Sidney Ernest Page Needham
6. Mar Georgius I
7. Charles D. Boltwood

8. Albert J. Fuge
9. John Lawrence Brown
10. Donald Lawrence Jolly
11. Robert Vincent Bernard Dawe

12. Keith Patrick Steinhurst,
13. Rutherford Card. Johnson

SEE OF UTRECHT (Second – Old Roman Catholic)

+Jesus Christ+ to Apostles James, John, Andrew, Simon, Matthew, Jude, Bartholomew, Phillip, James, Thomas, Peter and their successors, the Bishops of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, 33 A.D. to 1566 A.D.


1. Rudolphe Francois Edouard de
Gramant Hamilton de Brabant,
Archbishop of the Old Roman
Catholic Church

2. William Henry Francis Brothers
3. Albert Dunstan Bell
4. Edgar Ramon Verostek
5. Lowell Paul Wadle
6. Odo Acheson Berry,
Mar Columba

7. Mar Georgius I
8. Charles D. Boltwood
9. Albert J. Fuge
10. John Lawrence Brown
11. Donald Lawrence Jolly

12. Robert Vincent Bernard Dawe
13. Keith Patrick Steinhurst
14. Rutherford Card. Johnson

SEE OF UTRECHT (Third – Old Roman Catholic)

+Jesus Christ+ to Apostles James, John, Andrew, Simon, Matthew, Jude, Bartholomew, Phillip, James, Thomas, Peter and their successors, the Bishops of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, 33 A.D. to 1566 A.D.

1. Arnold Harris Mathew
2. Rudolphe Francois Edouard de Gramant Hamilton de Brabant, Archbishop of the Old Roman Catholic Church

3. Carmel Henry Carfora, Primate
of the North Armerican Old
Roman Catholic Church
4. Earl Anglin Lawrence James
5. Grant Timothy Billet

6. Norman R. Parr
7. Maurice Darryl McCormick
8. Irwin Young
9. Paul Victor Verhaeren &
Wayne Moore Hay

10. John P. Johnston
11. Sean J. Alexander
12. Darel E. Chase
13. Rutherford Card. Johnson

SEE OF UTRECHT (Fourth)

+Jesus Christ+ to Apostles James, John, Andrew, Simon, Matthew, Jude, Bartholomew, Phillip, James, Thomas, Peter and their successors, the Bishops of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, 33 A.D. to 1566 A.D.


1. Antonio Cardinal Barberini
2. Charles Maurice Latellier
3. James Benigne Bossuet
4. James Goydon de Matignon
5. Dominic M. Varlet
6. Peter John Meindaerts
7. John van Stiphout

8. Walter Michael van Nieuwenhuizen
9. Adrian Broekman
10. John James van Rhijn
11. Gilbert de Jong
12. Willibrod van Os
13. John Bon
14. John van Santen

15. Herman Heykamp
16. Gaspard John Rinkel

17. Gerardus Gul
18. Arnold Harris Matthew
19. Landas Berghes
20. Henry Carmel Carfora
21. Earl Anglin James
22. Norman R. Parr

23. Maurice Darryl McCormick
24. Irwin R. Young, Jr.

25. Paul Victor Verhaeren &
Wayne Moore Hay

26. Bruce D. Campbell

27. Andrew R. Manley

28. Benito P. Sagra

29. Nicholas J. Cucchiaro

Instrument of Consecration (2020).
Extended Apostolic Lines for Nicholas J. Cucchiaro & Benito P. Sagra   – (November 12, 2020 Archbishop Ken Denski)
The Most Rev. Joseph A. Grenier, Ph.D.Founding Bishop of the Celtic Christian Church
I.Through Bishop Ivan MacKillop, OCC,Presiding Bishop of the Church of the Culdees,Principal Consecrator 1. Antiochian-Jacobite Line of Succession. Mar Ignatius Peter III was consecrated in1872.. Paulose Mar Athanasius (Kadavil Kooran) was consecrated on December 4, 1907, by Mar Ignatius Peter III as Syrian Antioch Bishop of Kottayam and Metropolitan of Malabar (India).. Mar Julius I (Antonio Francis Xavier Alvares) was consecrated July 28, 1889, by Paulose Mar Athanasius, under the authority of Patriarch Ignatius Peter III to be Archbishop of the Latin Rite Independent Catholic Church of Ceylon, Goa, and India.. Joseph Rene Vilatte was consecrated on May 29, 1892, in Colombo, Ceylon, by Mar Julius I, under the authority of a Bull of Mar Ignatius Peter III, to serve as Archbishop of North America.. Fredrick E. Lloyd was consecrated in1915; Samuel Gregory Lines, in 1923; Justin Boyle, in 1927; Lowel Paul Wadle, in1940;. Herman Adrian Spruit was consecrated in 1957 by Lowel Paul Wadle, C. Hampton, C. Hanlon, and F. Marshall.. Robert E. Burns was consecrated on July 12, 1980, by Herman A. Spruit.. Ivan B. MacKillop was consecrated on November 30, 1984, by Robert E. Burns and Patricia DuMont-Ford.. Joseph A. Grenier was consecrated on April 6, 1997, by Ivan B. MacKillop as principal consecrator.  2. Roman-Old Catholic Line of Succession. Antonio Barberini, the nephew of Pope Urban VIII, was consecrated in 1655 under the authority of the Bishop of Rome, Pope Alexander VII, by Bishops Scanarello, Bottini, and Govotti.. Michael le Tellier was consecrated in 1668 by Antonio Barberini.. Jaques-Benigne Bossuet was consecrated in 1670 by Michael le Tellier.. James Coyon de Matignon was consecrated in 1693 by Jacques-Benigne Bossuet.. Dominicus Marie Varlet was consecrated in 1719 by James Coyon de Matignon, became Roman Catholic Bishop of Babylon in 1717, and was later suspended from office.. Cornelius Van Steenhoven was consecrated on October 15, 1724, by Dominicus Marie Varlet to serve as Archbishop of Utrecht, the Primatial See of Holland, which had been without a bishop for 18 years for refusing to cooperate in the persecution of the “Jansenists” in Holland. In this consecration was born the Old Catholic Church.. Johannes Van Stiphout was consecrated in1745; Gaultherus Michael Van Niewenhuizen, in1786; Adrian Brockman, in 1778; Johannes Jacobus Van Rhijn, in1797; Gilbertus de Jong, in1805; Wilibrordus Van Os, in1814; Johannes Bon, in1819; Johannes Van Santen, in1825; Hermanus Heijkamp, in1854; Casparus Johannes Rinkel, in1873; Gerardus Gul, in1892.. Arnold Harris Matthew was consecrated on April 28, 1908, by Gerardus Gul of Utrecht, assisted by Bishop J. J. Van Thiel of Haarlem, Bishop N. B. P. Spit of Deventer, and Bishop J. Demmel of Bonn, Germany, to serve as the first Old Catholic Bishop of Britain.. Fredrick Wiloughby was consecrated in1914; James I. Wedgewood, in1916; Irving S. Cooper, in1919; Charles Hampton, in1931.. Herman A. Spruit was consecrated in 1957 by Charles Hampton as principal consecrator.. Robert E. Burns was consecrated on July 12, 1980, by Herman A. Spruit.. Ivan B. MacKillop was consecrated on November 30, 1984, by Robert E. Burns and Patricia DuMont-Ford.. Joseph A. Grenier was consecrated on April 6, 1997, by Ivan B. MacKillop as principal consecrator.                                             

II.Through Bishop Raymond F. Kelly, SSF Bishop of the Diocese of Fairfax,Catholic Apostolic Church in North America, Co-Consecrator . Bernadinus Giraud was consecrated on April 26, 1767, by Pope Clement XIII (Carol della Torre Rezzoni).. Alexander Matthaeus was consecrated on February 23, 1777, by Bernadinus Giraud.. Petrus Franciscus Galetti was consecrated on September 12, 1819, by Alexander Matthaeus.. Iacobus Phillipus Fransoni was consecrated on December 8, 1822, by Petrus Franciscus Galetti.. Carolus Sacconi was consecrated on June 8, 1851, by Iacobus Phillipus Fransoni.. Edward Howard was consecrated on June 30, 1872, by Carolus Sacconi.. Mariano Rampolla Marchese del Tindaro was consecrated on December 8, 1882, by Edward Howard.. Joaquin Arcoverde de Albuquerque-Calvacanti was consecrated on October 26, 1890, by Mariano Rampolla Marchese del Tindaro.. Sebastiao Leme de Silveira Cintra was consecrated on June 4, 1911, by Joaquin Arcoverde de Albuquerque-Calvacanti. . Carlos Duarte Costa was consecrated on December 8, 1924, by Sebastiao Leme de Silveira Cintra. Bishop Duarte Costa served as a Roman Catholic bishop from 1924 to 1945, established the Catholic Apostolic Church of Brazil on July 6, 1945, and was Patriarch of the Catholic Apostolic Church from 1945 to 1961. 1. Luis Fernando Castillo Mendez was consecrated on May 3, 1948, by Carlos Duarte Costa. Bishop Castillo Mendez has been Patriarch of the Catholic Apostolic Church since 1961.. Justo Gonzalez was consecrated in May 1989, by Luis Fernando Castillo Mendez (sub conditione, to assure valid succession through Carlos Duarte Costa from principal consecrator).. Donald J. Buttenbusch was consecrated on September 22, 1990, by Justo Gonzalez.. Raymond F. Kelly was consecrated on February 17, 1996, by Donald J. Buttenbusch.. Joseph A. Grenier was consecrated on April 6, 1997, by Raymond F. Kelly as a co-consecrator. 2. Salmeo Ferraz was consecrated on August 15, 1945, by Carlos Duarte Costa.. Manuel Ceja Lananjeina was consecrated on May 29, 1951, by Salmeo Ferraz.. Benedito Lima was consecrated on August 15, 1965, by Manuel Ceja Lananjeina.. Jose Machado was consecrated on August 1, 1966, by Benedito Lima.. Oscar Fernandez was consecrated on December 2, 1967, by Jose Machado.. Michael Saffiero was consecrated on April 29, 1973, by Oscar Fernandez.. Renier Lauters was consecrated in November 1976, by Michael Saffiero.. Charles McCarthy was consecrated on April 30, 1977, by Renier Lauters.. Charles David Luther was consecrated on September 25, 1977, by Charles McCarthy as co-consecrator, the principal consecrator being Francis Jerome Joachim.. Martin J. Hill was consecrated on February 5, 1983, by Charles David Luther as co-consecrator, the principal consecrator being Wallace David de Ortega Maxey.. Justo Gonzalez was consecrated on June 26, 1983, by Martin J. Hill as co-consecrator, the principal consecrator being Francis Jerome Joachim.. Donald J. Buttenbusch was consecrated on September 22, 1990, by Justo Gonzalez.. Raymond F. Kelly was consecrated on February 17, 1996, by Donald J. Buttenbusch.. Joseph A. Grenier was consecrated on April 6, 1997, by Raymond F. Kelly as a co-consecrator.                                            

III.Through Bishop Armand C. Whitehead, Retired Bishop of theUnited Old Catholic Church, Co-Consecrator. Arnold Harris Matthew was consecrated on April 28, 1908, by Gerardus Gul of Utrecht, assisted by Bishop J. J. Van Thiel of Haarlem, Bishop N. B. P. Spit of Deventer, and Bishop J. Demmel of Bonn, Germany, to serve as the first Old Catholic Bishop of Britain.. De Landas Berghes et de la Roch was consecrated by Arnold Harris Matthew.. Carmel Henry Carfora was consecrated on October 4, 1912, by De Landas Berghes et de la Roch.. Hubert Augustus Rodgers was consecrated on July 30, 1942, by Carmel Henry Carfora.. James Edward Burns was consecrated on November 10, 1968, by Hubert Augustus Rodgers.. Armand C. Whitehead was consecrated on January 24, 1970, by James Edward Burns.. Joseph A. Grenier was consecrated on April 6, 1997, by Armand C. Whitehead as a co-consecrator. Lines from….++Archbishop Peter Paul Patrick Brennan (deceased), Bishop Emeritus Old Catholic Confederation, Archdiocese of the United States 22 January 2005 Peter Paul Brennan Consecrated 1978 by…..a. Archbishop Richard Arthur Marchenna, North America Old Roman Catholic Church Consecrated 2006 (sub conditione) byb. Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, Roman Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of Lusaka, ZambiaOther Apostolic Lines acquired through++P.P. Brennan1. Chaldean Catholic Church; thru +Patriarch Ngo Dinh Thuc2. Apostolic Catholic Church of Brazil; thru +Carlos Duarte Costa3. Old Catholic Church of Utrecht; thru +Arnold Harris Mathew4. African Orthodox Church; thru +Joseph Rene Vilatte5. Syrian Orthodox of Antioch; thru +Mar Ignatius Jacob ll6. Russian Orthodox Church; thru +Nikon, Metropolitan of Moscow7. Church of England; thru +John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury8. Greek Orthodox Church of Cyprus; thru +Makarios  ll9. Melkite-Greek Catholic  of Antioch; thru +Patriarchate Cyrillos Vlll10. Roman Catholic Church; thru Pope Paul VI  thru Arch Lines from….++ Archbishop Carl Alan Jimenez OCL22 January 2005
The Apostolic Succession of the Oratory of the Common Life [OCL] (and its parent organization the Old Catholic Church – de Landis Berghes succession) is as follows, listing primary consecrator and assisting bishops when known: Carl Allen Jimenez, OCL (current bishop) – Consecrated 22 February 1997, by John [Jack] E. Holman, assisted by Max Broussard, and Ollie Hollis.John [Jack] E. Holman, OCL (current bishop) – consecrated 15 March 1969, by Walter X. Brown, assisted by Robert Francis Bishop.Walter X. Brown (Old Catholic Church in America) – consecrated 26 August 1963, by Francis Xavier Resch, assisted by George Dunstan Hinkson.Francis Xavier Resch (Old Catholic Church in America) – consecrated 8 December 1940, by Carmel Henry Carfora.Carmel Henry Carfora (North American Old Roman Catholic) – consecrated 4 October 1916, by Rudolf de Landis Berghes, assisted by William Henry Francis Brothers.Rudolf de Landis Berghes (North American Old Roman Catholic) – consecrated 29 June 1913, by Arnold Harris Mathew.Arnold H. Mathew (Old Roman Catholic Church of Great Britain) – consecrated on 28 April 1908, by Gerardus Gul, assisted by J. J. Van Thiel, N. B. P. Spit, and J. Demmel.Geradus Gul (Archbishop of Utrecht – Utrecht Union) – consecrated on 11 May 1892, by C.J. RinkelGaspard Johannes Rinkel (Old Catholic bishop of Haarlem) – consecrated on 11 August 1873 by Herman HaykampHerman Heykamp (Old Catholic bishop of Deventer) – consecrated on 17 July 1854 by Johannes van SantenJohannes van Santen (Old Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht) – consecrated on 14 June 1825 by Johannes BonJohannes Bon (Old Catholic bishop of Haarlem) – consecrated on 12 April 1819 by Willibrord van OsWillibrord van Os (Old Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht) – consecrated on 24 April 1814 by Gisbert Cornelius de JongGisbert Cornelius de Jong (Old Catholic bishop of Deventer) – consecrated on 7 November 1805 by Jonhannes Jacobus van RhijnJonhannes Jacobus van Rhijn (Old Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht) – consecrated on 5 July 1797 by Adrian Johannes BroekmanAdrian Johannes Broekman (Old Catholic bishop of Hararlem) – consecrated on 21 June 1778 by Walter Michael NieuwenhuisenWalter Michael van Nieuwenhuisen (Old Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht) – consecrated on 7 February by Jonhannes van StiphoutJohannes van Stiphout (Old Catholic bishop of Haarlem) – consecrated on 11 July 1745 by Petrus Johannes MeindartsPetrus Jonhannes Meindarts (Old Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht) – consecrated on 17 October 1739 by Dominic Marie VarletDominic Marie Varlet was the Roman Catholic bishop of Babylon, in Partibus Prior to this, the succession is through the Roman Catholic Church.
Consecration by Archbishop Kenneth Denski (november 12, 2020).