THE OLD CATHOLIC SUCCESSION

THE OLD CATHOLIC SUCCESSION 

(1) Peter, 38 
(2) Linus, 67 
(3) Anacletus {Cletus} 76 
(4) Clement, 88 
…… through 
(235) Urban VIII, 1623 
(236) Innocent X, 1644 
(237) Alexander VII, 1655 

In 1655, Antonio Barberini, nephew of Urban VIII, was consecrated to the Episcopate under authority of the Bishop of Rome, by Bishops Scanarello, Bottini and Govotti. He was Archbishop of Rheims from 1657 until his death in 1671, and was made a Cardinal. It is from Archbishop Barberini that the Roman Succession from Peter branches off from the Bishops of Rome. 

Cardinal Antonio Barberini 
Archbishop of Rheims in the Church of the Sorbonne, Paris 
Consecrated in 1657 

Charles Maurice Letellier 
Son of the Grand Chancellor of France. 
Succeeded as Archbishop of Rheims. 
In the Church of the Cordeliers, Pontiose, 
Consecrated November 12, 1668 

James Benigne Bissuet The Illustrious 
(The Eagle of Meaux) 
Bishop of Condon. 
Transferred to the See of Meaux by Pope Clement X, September 21, 1670. 
In the Church of the Chartreuse, Paris 
Consecrated in 1671 

James Goyon De Matignon 
Bishop of Condon. 
Son of Count de Thorigny, he was import tax collector of 
Lisieux and Honorary Vicar of St. Victor in Paris. 
In Paris, consecratred in 1693 

Dominique Marie De Varlet 
Bishop of Ascalon (in Partibus), Coadjutor to the Bishop of Babylon, Persia. Retired to Holland, died in the Cistercian Abbey of Rhjinwick twenty-three years later. 
In response to the appeals of the Chapter of Utrecht, 
Consecrated on 12 February 1739 

Peter John Meindaerts 
Archbishop of Utrecht 
Was one of several priests ordained in Ireland by +Luke Fagan, 
Bishop of Meath, afterwards Archbishop of Dublin, to sustain the Ancient 
Church of the Netherlands, founded by St. Willibrord in the 7th century. 
He consecrated on 17 October 1739 

John Van Spithout 
Bishop of Haarlem 
Who consecrated on 11 July 1745 

Walter Michael Van Niewenbuizen 
Archbishop of Utrecht 
Who consecrated on 7 February 1768 

John James Van Rhijn 
Archbishop of Utrecht 
Who consecrated on 5 July 1797 

Gisbert De Jong 
Bishop of Deventer 
Who consecrated on 7 November 1805 

Willibrord Van Os 
Archbishop of Utrecht 
Who consecrated on 24 April 1814 

John Bon 
Bishop of Haarlem 
Who consecrated on 22 April 1819 

John Van Santen 
Archbishop of Utrecht 
Who consecrated on 14 June 1825 

Herman Heykamp 
Bishop of Deventer 
Who consecrated on 17 July 1854 

Casparus Johannes Rinkel 
Old Catholic Bishop of Haarlem 
Who consecrated on 11 May 1892 

Gerardus Gul 
Archbishop of Utrecht 
Who consecrated on 28 April 1908 

Arnold Harris Mathew 
Old Catholic Bishop of Great Britain 
Who consecrated on 29 June 1913 

Prince De Landas Berghes Et De Rache 
Who consecrated on 4 October 1916 

Carmel Henry Carfora 
Who consecrated on 15 August 1943 

Frederick Littler Pyman 
Who consecrated on 9 June 1972 

John L. Schaffer 
Who consecrated on 4 May 1982 

M. Joseph Turnage 
Who consecrated on 14 June 1988 
In Saint Augustine of Canterbury Chapel, Houma, Louisiana 

Max Broussard 
Who consecrated on 21 November 2004 with 
Archbishop .C.Miner, Bishop B.Taylor, 
Bishop G.J.Hoyos, Bishop R.U.Higuita 
In Talcahuano of Chile 

Patricio Viveros Robles 
Quien consagro el 10 de junio de 2006 con el
Obispo Jack Glynn Copeland en
Santiago de Chile a

GABRIEL ORELLANA

A Historical Note 

When Clement XI issued the Bull Unigenitus (1713), many Jansenists of France fled to Holland to escape the persecution of the Jesuits, who demanded that the Church of Holland return them for punishment. Archbishop of Utrecht John van Neercassel refused to comply. 

On his death, therefore, Clement refused to allow the consecration of a new Archbishop and abolished the ancient See of Utrecht, founded by St. Willibrord in the seventh century. 

Forced to function without a Bishop, the Church obtained confirmations and priestly ordinations by sending candidates to other countries, notably Ireland, where Luke Fagan, Roman Bishop of Meath, was willing to confirm and ordain. 

When Dominique Marie de Varlet, who had been appointed Coadjutor to the Bishop of Babylon, passed through Amsterdam on his way to take up his new position, he was prevailed upon to confirm 604 children who had been unable to go to other countries for Confirmation. 

In March 1720, he was suspended from office because of these Confirmations. Returning to Amsterdam, he resided there. The Chapter of Utrecht persuaded him to consecrate Bishops for them. 

The first consecration was on October 15, 1724, of Cornelius Steenhoven as Archbishop of Utrecht. The Bishop of Rome declared the consecration, and all subsequent ones, illicit (not invalid) and the Church of Utrecht, soon joined by Deventer and Haarlem, was considered to be in schism. 

It was not until 1870, after the Decree of Papal Infallibility, that the Old Catholic Church formally separated from the Roman Church. That is why Casparus Johannes Rinkel is the first in the above line to be called an Old Catholic Bishop.

Arnold Harris Mathew 

Old Catholic Bishop of Great Britain