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THE EPISCOPAL FREE CHURCH
THE EPISCOPAL FREE COMMUNION
THE FREE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH
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The FPEC has also used the names "Episcopal
Apostolic Church of England" and "Ecumenical Church
Foundation"
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1689
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Non-jurors became independent of the Church of England,
maintaining their allegiance to the Royal House of Stuart
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1726
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Non-juroring bishop Dr Timothy Newmarsh consecrated
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1804
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Non-jurors identified as the Ancient British Church
and as the Orthodox British Church, after developing relations with Eastern
Orthodox Churches
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1805
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Non-jurors ceased when the last of their bishops died
without a successor
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1866
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The Ancient British Church founded by Charles Isaac
Stevens
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1866
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Jules (Raymond) Ferrette, cons.
on 02 June, with a mission to initiate an indigenous and autonomous
Orthodox Church in England as a step towards reunion between western and
eastern Christians. Formerly a
French Roman Catholic missionary priest
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Mutran Boutros (solus), later the SYRIAN
ORTHODOX PATRIARCH OF ANTIOCH, IGNATIUS PETER IV, at Homs, Emesa
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1866
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Francis George Widdows, previously a Roman Catholic
Franciscan monk, became a non-conformist minister at the Church of Martin
Luther, 26 Speldhurst Road, South Hackney
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1866
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Leon Checkemian priested by Leon Chorchorunian
(1822–97), the Armenian Catholic archbishop of Malatia, on 27
November. In this capacity,
Checkemian served at Besui (1866–8), Aintab (1868), Gurum (1868–77) and
then moved to Malatia
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1873
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The Nazarene Episcopal Ecclesia founded by James
Martin
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1874
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Richard Williams Morgan
cons. at Marholm, Northamptonshire on 06 March. Morgan was a Church of England cleric and historian
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Jules (Raymond) Ferrette
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1874
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Ancient British Church founded by Richard Williams Morgan (Mar Pelagius I)
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1877
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Lee and Seccombe, together with Thomas Mossman were
the three founders and leaders of the Order Of Corporate Reunion.
The three of them claimed to have been secretly consecrated as bishops, circa
1877. There has been much speculation and conjecture as to who their
consecrators were. Owing to the secrecy that long surrounded these
consecrations, it may be difficult definitively to establish the facts.
However, the website of the Order of Corporate Reunion (currently, as at
2015, led by Peter Paul Brennan) asserts that the consecrators were
Dominicus Agostina (cardinal patriarch of Venice), Luigi Nazari di Caliana
(archbishop of Milan), Vincentius Moretti (a cardinal), and Ignatios
Ghiurekian (a Byzantine archbishop and abbot-general of Ordo
Mechitaristarum Venetiarum from the island of St Lazarus near Venice), and
that they acted with the authority of Pope Pius IX
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1878
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Leon Checkemian cons. / made a vardapet by Armenian
Catholic Archbishop Leon Korkorunian, on 23 April, as an assistant bishop
for his ethnic group in Malatia (his birthplace), Asia Minor. A vardapet is a highly educated celibate
priest, or archimandrite, who is a doctor of theology. A vardapet may hold rank similar to that
of a bishop, though without the power to ordain priests. The Armenian Catholic Church is in
communion with the Roman Catholic Church
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1879
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Charles Isaac Stevens
cons. on 06 March
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Richard Williams Morgan, Frederick George Lee &
John Thomas Seccombe. co-consecrators
were bishops in the Order of Corporate Reunion, Lee was descended from
Timothy Newmarsh
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1879
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Reformed Episcopal Church of the UK founded by Charles
Isaac Stevens
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1879
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The Ancient British Church, as the Non-jurors, opposed
Anglo-Catholicism
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1885
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Leon Checkemian, through contacts with Anglicans,
converted to Reform Protestantism & emigrated to England, thereafter
studying at New College Presbyterian seminary
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1888
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Nazarene Episcopal Church founded by James Martin and located
at Flaxman Road, London SE5
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1888
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James Martin cons. on 11 April
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Alfred Spencer Richardson of
the Reformed Episcopal Church of the UK
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1889
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The Free Protestant Church of England founded by Leon Checkemian,
as a meeting place for all types of Protestant Christians
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1889
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United Armenian Catholic Church of the British Isles
founded by Leon Checkemian on 15 August, to bring his fellow British
Armenian refugees into a non-papal church
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1889
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Leon Checkemian preached in Presbyterian churches in
Belfast, Ireland
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1890
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Nazarene College / seminary founded
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1890
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Leon Checkemian cons. on 04 May, to remove
any doubts as to his episcopal status
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Charles Isaac Stevens & Alfred Spencer Richardson
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1890
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Leon Checkemian licensed to officiate within the
Church of Ireland by William C Plunket, fourth Baron Plunket, Archbishop of
Dublin & Primate of the Church of Ireland
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1890
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Plunket opposed Anglo-Catholicism, which he viewed as a
trojan horse for Papal re-establishment over the Church of England. He
supported Reformed Episcopal churches, such as the United Armenian Catholic
Church, in spheres of Roman Catholic influence
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1894
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Juan Bautista Cabrera cons. for the Spanish Reformed
Episcopal Church
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William C Plunket
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1897
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Leon Korkorunian
1822 – 1897
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1897
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William C Plunket
1828 – 1897
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1897
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THE FREE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF ENGLAND
Founded
on 02 November at the Pro-Cathedral
of St
Stephen’s Church, Shrewsburg Road, East Ham, London
Leon
Checkemian : First Primus (Mar
Leon)
After
Checkemian had moved to London, it was decided evangelical Anglicanism
would be enhanced by merging the resources of :
The
Free Protestant Church : Leon
Checkemian
The
Ancient British Church : Charles
Isaac Stevens
The
Nazarene Episcopal Church : James
Martin
A
union of small British episcopates, established in the 1870s, with a
mission to act as a reunion church among the various Protestant bodies,
possessing valid Catholic sacraments.
The FPEC contained lines from the Armenian Catholic Church, the
Syrian Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Church of
England. The FPEC adopted the
Reformed Episcopal Church of the UK’s 1878 Constitution & Canons
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1897
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George Walter Lewis Maeers (b. 1855 in Kent) cons. on
02 November for the Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church
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James Martin
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1897
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Frederick William Boucher cons. on 02 November,
possibly for an independent ministry
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James Martin
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1897
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Andrew Charles Albert McLaglen
cons. as Bishop of Claremont and to be the FPEC Missionary Bishop for Cape
Colony based in Cape Town
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Leon Checkemian, Stevens, Martin, Maeers and Boucher
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1897
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James Martin cons. sub conditione as Archbishop of
Caerleon-upon-Usk, immediately after the above consecrations
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Leon Checkemian, Stevens, Martin, Maeers and Boucher
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1897
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St. Stephen's Church, Shrewsburg Road, East Ham,
London was an iron building recently built in 1897
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1898
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Frederick William Boucher (legally spelled Baucher)
was an engineer's foreman in a factory pattern maker's department in
Liverpool. His probable employer
was the Mersey Iron Foundry of Liverpool, who built the first cast iron
church in the world in 1814.
Boucher most likely had a hand in the design of St. Stephen's Church
and the resulting contact with the bishops of the FPEC led to his
consecration. By the time his
daughter Bertha married Lance-Sergeant Arthur William Martin of the Second
Battalion, Scottish Rifles on 17 March 1914, he apparently had retired from
secular employment as Bertha stated on the marriage certificate that her
father's occupation was that of " clergyman "
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1899
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Richard Williams Morgan 1815 – 1899
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1900
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FPEC 2nd Primus : Charles Isaac Stevens
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1901
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Andrew Charles Albert McLaglen and his family were
back in England, living in the Limehouse district of London. McLaglen was slightly mifed that his
eldest son, Victor, had joined the British army in the Boer War, and after
getting the son out of the forces, thought best for his family to move back
to England.
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1904
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Jules (Raymond) Ferrette 1828 – 1904. He died
on 10 October
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1909
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Church of Martin Luther affiliated with the FPEC
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1909
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St. Stephen's Church, Shrewsburg Road, East Ham,
London was sold to a group of Spiritualists
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1909
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The Church of Martin Luther, located at 26 Speldhurst
Road, South Hackney became the Pro-Cathedral of the FPEC
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1916
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Juan Bautista Cabrera
1837 – 1916
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1916
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Benjamin Charles Harris cons. on 25 July as FPEC
bishop of Essex
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James Martin
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1916
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Ernest Mumby cons. as FPEC Bishop of Caer-Leirion
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James Martin
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1917
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The British Government recognised the FPEC when
it exempted from military service the Venerable Ernest Albert Asquith PhD,
as a lawfully ordained minister / in Holy Orders of a legally constituted
Episcopal Church, under the Military Service Act 1916.
The Worshipful Magistrate arrived at this conclusion
after investigating the origin of the Orders of the Church and the services
used for ordinations and consecrations which were based on the 1662 Book of
Common Prayer
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1917
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Charles Isaac Stevens
1835 – 1917. He died on 02
February
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1917
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FPEC 3rd Primus : James Martin
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1917
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The General Synod of the FPEC as of 21 April 1917
consisted of : James Martin, Ernest Mumby, Benjamin Charles Harris, William
Hall, Surridge, E.P. Woodcock & Ernest A. Asquith
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1917
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FPEC possessed its own Canons Ecclesiastical. Legislative and administrative authority
of the Church was vested in the General Synod, composed of Bishops and
Clergy, together with not more than two lay representatives (Synodsmen)
from each organised congregation. This Synod met quarterly, and for the due
transaction of its business appointed annually a Treasurer, Registrar, and
such other officers or sub-committees as it deemed necessary. It also had
the power to add to the General Standing Committee
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1919
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James Martin
1843 – 1919. He died on 20
October
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1919
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FPEC 4th Primus : Andrew Charles Albert
McLaglen
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1919
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The mission church of St. Andrew's at Retreat Place,
Hackney served as the Pro-Cathedral until 1936 when it was
demolished as part of a city redevelopment project
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1920
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LEON
CHECKEMIAN 1848 - 1920. He died on 03 December
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1922
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Francis George Widdows cons. on 04 June at St. Andrew's
Church, Retreat Place, London as Bishop of Hackney (Ignatius)
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Andrew Charles Albert McLaglen
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1922
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Herbert James Monzani Heard
cons. on 04 June at St. Andrew's Church, Retreat Place, London. He was headmaster of Raleigh College
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Andrew Charles Albert McLaglen
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1922
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"The
Church Times", of 28th April, devotes practically a whole page to an
article, "A Chapter of Secret History". It gives a somewhat
detailed account of the background of the Order of Corporate Reunion and
the bishops consecrated for that organisation, which was in the episcopal
lineage of Charles Isaac Stevens and the passing on of that succession to
the FPEC. The Author of this article adds the following: "It is
interesting, and may be of future importance to note that the orders
possessed by these Protestant bodies conferred through Checkemian,
MacLaglen (sic) and their co-adjutors are free from the objections alleged
against Anglican Orders by the Roman Catholic Controversialists".
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1922
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Five northern diocese churches of the Reformed
Episcopal Church of England, along with several independent Anglican
congregations, formed the Evangelical Church of England with John Pownal
Hodgkinson and Charles Edmund Wincott as it’s first bishops
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1927
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Benjamin Charles Harris was pastor for Romford
Evangelical Free Church in Romford, Essex
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1928
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Frederick William Boucher 1855 – 1928. He was
born in St. Helens, Lancashire and died at Ormskirk, Lancashire
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1928
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Andrew Charles Albert McLaglen 1851 – 1928
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1928
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FPEC 5th Primus : Herbert James Monzani
Heard
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1929
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Benjamin Charles Harris, moved to Hertfordshire when
he became minister for New Barnet Baptist Church
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1930
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Herbert James Monzani Heard consecrated bishops for other
independent church groups
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1930
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Victor Alexander Palmer Hayman cons. on 20 April for
own jurisdiction
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Herbert James Monzani Heard
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1930
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William Newton cons. For the Evangelical Church of
England by presbyters
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1936
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Francis George Widdows 1850 – 1936. He
ministered for many years to his extremely loyal congregation. He was a known homosexual, in an age
when it was illegal in the UK to be so, and imprisoned several times on
moral charges. Herbert James
Monzani Heard subsequently had any mention of Widdows stricken from the
official records
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1936
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Stonebridge Road Methodist Church in South Tottenham
was acquired by the Rev'd Hall for the FPEC. This red brick chapel was built
in 1882 and was re-dedicated as St. Andrew's Church. In 1954 it was
registered as St Andrew's Collegiate Church. It served as the Pro-Cathedral
until 1967 when it was sold to the Church of God congregation and later
became part of a housing development
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1936
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Charles Leslie Saul & Gordon Pinder presbyterially
cons. by Newton
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1937
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Between 1937 - 1941, using the pseudonym
"Crusader", Boltwood published six "spirit revealed"
books supposedly by the Victorian social reformer Charles Kingsley. These
books were printed at a small press in the town of Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex,
which was probably also the residence of the Boltwoods during those years
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1938
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Frederick Charles Aloysius Harrington cons. on 13 June
for his own jurisdiction
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Herbert James Monzani Heard
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1938
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Herbert James Monzani Heard disliked the name FPEC and
introduced “The Episcopal Apostolic Church of England” as an alternative
title for the jurisdiction
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1939
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William Hall cons. on 18 May in St. Andrew's Church,
Stonebridge Road, Tottenham, London, N.15
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Herbert James Monzani Heard
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1939
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FPEC 6th Primus : William Hall
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1939
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Ernest Mumby died on 12 September in Blackpool,
Lancashire at the age of 53. He had
worked in the hotel industry for many years and appears not to have
exercised much of a ministry
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1940
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James Dominic Mary O'Gavigan cons. on 20 May for own
jurisdiction
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Herbert James Monzani Heard
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1942
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Ernest Albert Asquith
1884 - 1942 One time
resident at 26 Speldhurst Road, South Hackney, London and Archdeacon of the
FPEC
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1942
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Boltwood founded the College of Spiritual Science, a
correspondence school with courses for the training of "Spiritual
Healers, Psychotherapists, and Thalamopathists"
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1943
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William Bernard Crow cons. on 13 June for
own jurisdiction
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Herbert James Monzani Heard
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1944
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Hugh George de Willmott Newman
cons. on 10 April
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William Bernard Crow
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1944
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Hugh George de Willmott Newman granted primacy of the
United Armenian Catholic Church, on 30 September, by Herbert James Monzani
Heard
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1944
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Gordon Pinder cons. on 17 September for the
Evangelical Church of England
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Benjamin Charles Harris & Hugh George de Willmott
Newman
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1944
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Charles Leslie Saul cons. on 17 September for the
Evangelical Church of England
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Benjamin Charles Harris & Hugh George de Willmott
Newman
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1944
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Joseph K C Pillai cons. on 17 September for the Evangelical
Church of England
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Benjamin Charles Harris & Hugh George de Willmott
Newman
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1944
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Charles Leslie Saul cons. on 17 September
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Benjamin Charles Harris
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1944
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Gordon Pinder cons. on 17 September
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Benjamin Charles Harris
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1944
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Joseph K C
Pillai cons. on 17 September
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Benjamin Charles Harris
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1945
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Hugh George de Willmott Newman granted primacy of the
Ancient British Church, on 29 January by Herbert James Monzani Heard, and
then merged it into his Catholicate of the West jurisdiction
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1945
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Joseph K C Pillai, ECC bishop for India
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1945
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The Evangelical Church of England Primus : Gordon
Pinder
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1945
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English Episcopal Church Primus : Charles Leslie Saul
(separated from The Evangelical Church of England)
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1946
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Charles Dennis Boltwood
cons. for the Catholicate of the West, sometime between 1946-9
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Hugh George De Willmott Newman
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1946
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Benjamin Charles Harris 1884 – 1946. He was
born in Essex and died in Abbots Langley, Herts. Throughout his ministerial career he served as a minister for
various non-conformist churches and was, for a long time, nonconformist
chaplain at a mental hospital in Abbots Langley
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1947
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Herbert James Monzani Heard 1866 – 1947
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1949
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Rev'd Frederick C King (1917-85) and his wife the
Rev'd Karla King (deaconess) (1920-99) incorporated in California, on 15
July, The Anglican Apostolic Church Of England as a USA affiliate to the
EAC/FPEC with its headquarters in Sunland, California
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1949
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The FPEC had almost ceased to function
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1949
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William Hall invited Charles Dennis Boltwood to join
the FPEC while maintaining his connection to de Wilmot Newman's
organisation, but re-consecrated him in 1952 rather than accept him as a
bishop in the eyes of the FPEC
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1950
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Charles Dennis Boltwood cons. on 25 December, in
Canada
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Earl Anglin Lawrence James of the Old Roman Catholic
Church
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1950
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Gordon Pinder died
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1950
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Grant Timothy Billet cons. on 25 December
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Charles Dennis Boltwood
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1951
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Charles Dennis Boltwood joined the FPEC and ordained,
sub conditione on 3 May, a presbyter by William Hall
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1952
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William Hall continued the practice of consecrating
bishops who did not serve in the FPEC
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1952
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John Leslie Baines cons.
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William Hall
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1952
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John Leslie Baines (b.1883), a non-parochial priest in
the Church of England
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1952
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Charles Dennis Boltwood cons. on 06 April for FPEC
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William Hall
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1952
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Charles Dennis Boltwood cons. on 13 April (2nd time)
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Hugh George De Willmott Newman
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1953
|
Ronald Powell (Richard, Duc de Palatine) cons. on 25
October
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Herbert James Monzani Heard
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1953
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Ronald Powell incorporated the Nazarene College as
part of his newly established Pre-Nicene Catholic Church
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1954
|
William Hall appointed Charles Dennis Boltwood his
successor as primus on 25 March prior to undergoing an operation for colon
cancer. Boltwood became the
Principal of Nazarene College, continuing to train by post, people around
the world in Philosophy and Theology
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1955
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Nazarene College was merged with St. Andrew's
Correspondence College (Tottenham) Ltd. when that organisation was
incorporated on 5 July
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1956
|
Charles Dennis Boltwood cons. on 06 July (3rd time)
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Hugh George De Willmott Newman
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1956
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Nestor Joseph Emile Antoine Frippiat cons. on 02 Sept
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Charles Dennis Boltwood
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1956
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Walter Joseph Hendrik Van Den Berghe cons. on 02 Sept
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Charles Dennis Boltwood
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1957
|
Emmet Neil Enochscons cons. in California as
Archbishop of the FPEC in the USA
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Charles Dennis Boltwood
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1957
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Emmet Neil Enochs cons. on 02 June (1st cons)
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Charles Dennis Boltwood
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1957
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James Burrows Noble cons. on 04 Sept
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Charles Dennis Boltwood
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1958
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Charles Dennis Boltwood cons. on 19 September
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Konstantin Jaroshevich of the Holy Orthodox Church of
Christ
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1958
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Charles Dennis Boltwood consecrated bishops for West
Africa and Canada
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1958
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Emmet Neil Enochs cons. on 31 Aug (2nd cons)
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Charles Dennis Boltwood
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1958
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Reginald Benjamin Millard cons. on 15 Apr
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Charles Dennis Boltwood
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1958
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Emmanuel Samuel Yekorogha cons. on 06 June
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Charles Dennis Boltwood
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1958
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Benjamin Charles Eckhardt cons. on 16 Aug
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Charles Dennis Boltwood
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1958
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Charles Kennedy Samuel Moffatt cons. on 24 Aug
|
Charles Dennis Boltwood
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1959
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FPEC 7th Primus : Charles Dennis
Boltwood (previously elected in
1954)
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1959
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William Hall
1890 – 1959. He was one time
chaplain at Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, Stamford Hill
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1959
|
Terence Hope Davenport cons.
Born in 1900, he was a non-parochial priest in the
Church of England
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William Hall
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1959
|
Baines & Davenport did not establish their own
denominations because for the rest of their lives they remained ministers
in good standing within the Church of England. It appears they just wanted
to quietly hold independent episcopal rank without functioning as a bishop
- a not uncommon practice amongst ordinary Anglican clergy.
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1959
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John Marion Stanley cons. on 03 May, in London
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Boltwood, James B Noble and Reginald Benjamin Millard
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1959
|
James Ormerod cons. on 24 July as Primus of the
continuing ECofE
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Wiliam Hall
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1959
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John Marion Stanley cons. on 03 May
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Charles Dennis Boltwood
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1960
|
Charles Dennis Boltwood resigned from the Catholicate
of the West in favour of his FPEC work.
Unfortunately Boltwood allowed his bishops and clergy such a free
hand in their ministries that the original purpose of the FPEC was
forgotten about and most of them viewed the FPEC as a 'starter church' and
quickly founded/joined other Anglican/Independent Catholic or Orthodox
jurisdictions. (Dr Boltwood's continuing practice of theosophy, in addition
to presenting himself as an old fashion evangelical Anglican, did not help
matters also)
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1960
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Eric Daenecke cons. on 12 December
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Charles Dennis Boltwood
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1961
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Dr Francis Thomas cons. in London
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Charles Dennis Boltwood
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1961
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John Trollnas cons. early in the year
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Charles Dennis Boltwood
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1961
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Francis Thomas cons. on 04 July
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Charles Dennis Boltwood
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1962
|
William Charles Cato-Symonds cons. on 15 Apr
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Charles Dennis Boltwood
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1963
|
F C King cons. as FPEC Archbishop of the USA
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Emmet Neil Enochs
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1963
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Frederick Charles King cons. on 19 May, on the
authority of Boltwood
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Emmet Neil Enochs
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1964
|
Harry Kenneth Means and his wife Rita travelled to Europe
on church business and to research on church history in the British Museum
Reading Rooms and at the Ashmolean in Oxford, between March and October
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1964
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Harry Kenneth Means cons. on 16 August at St. Andrew's
Collegiate Church, London
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Charles Dennis Boltwood, Francis Thomas, and Albert
Dunstan Bell (Old Catholic) of the USA
|
|
1964
|
Harry Kenneth Means, via friends in the North American
College at Rome and by virtue of his FPEC episcopal standing, was granted
open access to the Vatican Library
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1964
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POPE PAUL VI blessed Harry Kenneth
Means’ Episcopal ring and Pectoral Cross during a Papal Audience, Means
attended, held at 5pm on 14 October in St. Peter's, Rome
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1964
|
Harry Kenneth Means was given VIP seating at St. Peter's
when he was present for the Canonization Service of the Ugandan Martyrs on
18 October. This service featured
the use of the Coptic liturgy and the release of white doves
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1964
|
Donald Jay Foard cons. on the authority of Boltwood
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Emmet Neil Enochs
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1964
|
Samuel Richard Acquah cons. on 19 July on the
authority of Boltwood
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Emmanuel Samuel Yekorogha
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1966
|
Albert John Fuge cons. as the new bishop of the FPEC
in New York State
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Charles Dennis Boltwood
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1966
|
The final graduation dinner for St. Andrew's
Correspondence College was held at the Bonnington Hotel, London, when the
College was closed down and its records lodged at Somerset House in
anticipation of the sale of the pro-cathedral, in the following year, on 27
August
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1966
|
James Everard Thornhill cons. on 24 Apr
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Charles Dennis Boltwood
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1966
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Arthur Olawale Nelson-Cole cons. on 29 May
|
Charles Dennis Boltwood
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1966
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Albert John Fuge cons. on 16 Oct
|
Charles Dennis Boltwood
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1968
|
Joseph K C
Pillai : first bishop of the American Episcopal Church now known as
the Anglican Province of America
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1968
|
Albert John Fuge became Archbishop of New York and
Metropolitan of the USA on 8 September, replacing Dr Enochs. Dr Enochs had become an Old Roman
Catholic bishop
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1968
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Albert John Fuge was based at the Boltwood Chapel, 177
West Broadway, New York City
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1968
|
Edwin Duane Follick cons. in London on 28
August
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Charles Dennis Boltwood (sola)
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1968
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E J Evans cons. during the summer
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Charles Dennis Boltwood (sola)
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1968
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William Carson Thompson cons. between September 1968
& June 1971, on the authority of Boltwood
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Albert John Fuge
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1970
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Joseph K C Pillai
1901 – 1970
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1970
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Ernest Percival Parris cons. in the spring, on the
authority of Boltwood
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Albert John Fuge (sola)
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1970
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The Free Protestant Episcopal Christian Church, Inc.
was incorporated in New Jersey with Willard D Mayo of East Orange, NJ as its
Primus on 02 March
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1970
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Willard D Mayo may have been cons. in January
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Eric Daenecke
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1971
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Robert Randolph Rivette cons. on 19 October in the
Boltwood Chapel
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Albert John Fuge
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1971
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Gordon Albert Da Costa cons. on 18 June
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Charles Dennis Boltwood
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1971
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William Elliot Littlewood cons. on 19 June
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Charles Dennis Boltwood
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1971
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Russell Grant Fry, Jr cons. on 19 June
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Charles Dennis Boltwood
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1971
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Horst Karl Frederick Block cons. on 09 Aug (1st cons)
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Charles Dennis Boltwood
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1971
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Robert Randolph Rivette cons. on 19 Oct
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Charles Dennis Boltwood
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1972
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Horst Karl Frederick Block cons. 26 March (2nd cons)
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Charles Dennis Boltwood
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1972
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John Lawrence Brown cons. on 21 May, on the authority of Boltwood
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Albert John Fuge
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1972
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FPEC’s Diocese of Texas was incorporated in the State
of Texas on 25 April by Robert Randolph Rivette, the only example of the
official FPEC ever being incorporated in the USA. This charter is in good standing
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1974
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The Boltwood Chapel was consecrated on 27 October by
Dr Fuge, Dr Boltwood, Benjamin C Eckardt, William C Thompson, and Ernest P
Parris
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1974
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The Convocation of the FPEC passed a new Constitution and
adopted policies for greater co-ordination between the work of the USA and
Canada
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1978
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FPEC 8th Primus : Albert John Fuge -
nominated, with Deed of Succession, by Charles Dennis Boltwood at the Park Road Methodist Church, New
York City on 17 October and witnessed by Dr Ernest P. Parris (assistant
FPEC bishop of New York) and Dr Samuel Lewis (chaplain to Dr Fuge)
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1978
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Horst K F
Block, missionary FPEC bishop for Germany & France, and Emmanuel
Samuel Yekorogha (d. 1983) FPEC archbishop of West Africa, disagreed with
the Primatial succession
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1978
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Dr Block became International Primus of a schismatic
FPEC (TIFPEC)
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1982
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Albert John Fuge
1911 – 1982. He died on 30
April and had been a Lutheran pastor, of New York City
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1982
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Robert Randolph Rivette, FPEC bishop for Texas,
succeeded Albert John Fuge as FPEC Archbishop of the USA
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1982
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FPEC 9th Primus : Charles Kennedy Stewart
Moffatt of Canada on 07 July, nominated by Dr Boltwood
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1982
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Dr Boltwood directed Dr Francis Thomas to wind down
FPEC operations in the UK, sending it’s original church records to Dr
Moffatt in Canada
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1982
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Robert George Montanus cons. on 15 December
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John M Stanley
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1985
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Charles Dennis Boltwood 1889 - 1985. He was
born in Essex and died on 03 July. A noted spiritualist in the 1930s &
40s
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1988
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James Nicholas Meola cons. on 13 March
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John Allen Rifenbury and Robert Randolph Rivette
Troy Arnold Kaichen of Virginia is listed in some histories
as one of Meola's consecrators but he only gave his consent to the
consecration and was not present at it
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1989
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Charles Kennedy Stewart Moffatt 1907 – 1989. He died without designating a successor as Primus
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1991
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Charles Leslie Saul
1947 – 1991. He died on 07
June and was the last Primus of the Protestant Episcopal Reformed Church
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1991
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Melvin Frederick Larson (b. 1920) of Lynnwood,
WA, as FPEC Archbishop of the
Pacific NW on 19 April. Larson had
earlier been ordained deacon and priest by Walter Hollis Adams (1907-91) of
the Anglican Episcopal Church of North America, before joining the FPEC
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Robert Randolph Rivette
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1993
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Matthew John Carles Tuz cons. on 03 July. (b. 1951, London, ON)
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Robert Randolph Rivette
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1994
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FPEC 10th Primus : Edwin Duane
Follick. On 07 November he was
accorded the Primacy from 1989, as he had been the most senior FPEC cleric
since July 1958
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1994
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Eric Daenecke
1914 – 1994. He was the FPEC
bishop of New York from 1960-6 and in 1969 was resident in New Jersey
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1997
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The Protestant Episcopal Reformed Church, previously
the Evangelical Church of England, was formally dissolved on 23 August
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1997
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The FPEC bishops in the USA were :
Melvin Frederick Larson
Dr John Marion Stanley (b. 1923) of Port Orchard, WA
Dr Harry Kenneth Means (b. 1919) of Port Charlotte,
FL,
Dr Edwin Duane Follick (b. 1935) of Woodland Hills, CA
Dr James Nicholas Meola (b. 1938) of Tom's River, NJ
Dr Ernest Percival Parris (b. 1920) of Saint Albans,
NY
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1997
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Willard D Mayo died.
There are no records of the Free Protestant Episcopal Christian
Church, Inc. after this date
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1999
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Preston Bradley Carey cons. on 01 Aug
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Robert George Montanus
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2001
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Block’s Church became known as the International Free
Protestant Episcopal Church on 07 October
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2001
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Aaron Robin Orr (1940-2010) of Hamilton, ON, TIFPEC
Bishop for Canada on 27 July
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2001
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Aaron Robin Orr cons.
on 19 August
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Horst K F Block
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2003
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Rev'd Cecil G Cobran, BTh., of London,
England 1915 – 2003.
He died on 08 March and was one of the last of the
(old) FPEC English ministers
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2004
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Robert Randolph Rivette 1916 – 2004. He died on
25 April and had been a lawyer and an USAF officer. He suffered with Alzheimer's Disease
since 1997
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2004
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Harry Kenneth Means
1919 – 2004. He was born on
27 November and died on 19 April
He had been a Universalist minister who was the leader
of a group of 14 parishes in the Christian Universalist Church of America
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2004
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Joseph Spyridon Christopher Chaskos cons. on 15
November
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Horst K F Block
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2005
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Muhammad Wolfgang Schmidt cons. on 20 March
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Horst K F Block
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2005
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Peter Leers cons. on 26 November at Leers home chapel
in Dusseldorf as Bishop for Germany
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Horst K F Block, Muhammad Wolfgang Schmidt
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2006
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The following Bishops left Block's jurisdiction :
Aaron Robin Orr
Preston Bradley Carey
Joseph Spyridon Christopher Chaskos
Muhammad Wolfgang Schmidt
These formed the Christian Missionary Anglican
Communion in January
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2007
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Francesco Reale cons. on 10 August as Bishop of
Spain. He had been a Lutheran
pastor
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Horst K F Block, Peter Leers
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2008
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Horst K F Block
1936 – 2008. He died on 12
February
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2008
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Ernest Percival Parris died on 24 September
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2008
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Peter Leers succeeded Block as Primus of TIFPEC
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2011
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Peter Leers dissolved TIFPEC, ending the schism
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2012
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The FPEC General Synod in Bolivia issued a mission
statement : “No matter who you are or where you are on your spiritual
journey you are welcome to our table.
The Gifts of God are free!”
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2012
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The FPEC now also known as : The Episcopal Free Church
Of The Anglican Free Communion
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2012
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During Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee the Church
became established in England. In the year of Queen Elizabeth's Diamond
Jubilee the FPEC returned home, 30 years after operations in England ended,
with the creation of the Province of the UK headed by Dr Palmer
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2015
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AFC 11th Primus : Richard Arthur Palmer,
on 05 February
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2016
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Pre-Nicene Catholic Church founded by George William
Boyer of London
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2016
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The Ancient British Church continues today in several
bodies, including the British Orthodox Church (a canonical local church
within the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria since 1994), and the Celtic
Orthodox Church (now united with the French Orthodox Church and the
Orthodox Church of the Gauls, forming the Communion of Western Orthodox
Churches (CWOC))
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2016
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Wikipedia : There are many hundreds, perhaps
thousands, of bishops deriving lines of succession through Leon Checkemian
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2020
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The FPEC now
also known as : THE EPISCOPAL FREE CHURCH OF THE EPISCOPAL FREE COMMUNION
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