The Apostolic Succession in the Order of Corporate Reunion


So far, academic study conducted by the Order of Corporate Reunion has only conclusively uncovered the following line of Apostolic Succession. All other supposed lines of succession that claim to be of the O.C.R. cannot be relied upon until further documentation is found to substantiate the lines.

  1. Frederick George Lee, Thomas Wimberly Mossman SSC and John Thomas Seccombe, Founding Bishops of the Order of Corporate Reunion on 6 March 1879 consecrated:

  2. Richard Williams Morgan (Mar Pelagius) (1815-89), Archbishop of Caerleon-on-Usk, Curate of Marholm, Hants., in the Church of England, who on the same day, assisted by Seccombe and Lee, consecrated:

  3. Charles Isaac Stevens (Mar Theophilus) (1835-1917), Archbishop of Caerleon, Caertroia and Verulam, who on 8 May 1890 consecrated:

  4. Leon Checkemian (Mar Leon) (1848-1920), First Primus of the Free Protestant Episcopal Church, who on 2 November 1897 consecrated:

  5. Andrew Charles Albert McLaglen (Mar Andries) (1851-1928), Titular Archbishop of Claremont and Colonial Missionary Bishop for Cape Colony, South Africa, Third Primus of the Free Protestant Episcopal Church, who on 4 June 1922 consecrated:

  6. Herbert James Monzani-Heard (Mar Jacobus II), Archbishop of Selsey, Patriarch of the Ancient British Church, who on 13 June 1943 consecrated:

  7. William Bernard Crow (Mar Basilius Abdullah III) (1895-1976), Patriarch of Antioch in the Ancient Orthodox Catholic Church, who on 10 April 1944 consecrated:

  8. Hugh George de Willmott Newman (Mar Georgius) (1905-79), Catholicos of the West and Patriarch of Glastonbury, Archbishop and Deputy in the Apostolic Episcopal Church, Ruling Prelate of the Order of Corporate Reunion, who on 6 June 1946 assisted by John Sebastian Marlow Ward, Charles Leslie Saul, John Syer, Francis Ernest Langhelt and Richard Kenneth Hurgon, all bishops of the Catholicate of the West, consecrated:

  9. Wallace de Ortega Maxey (Mar David I) (1902-92), Primate, The Apostolic Episcopal Church, Prelate and Rector Provincial of the USA, The Order of Corporate Reunion. Assisted by bishops Ronald R. Ramm, Jürgen W. Bless, Emile F. R. Fairfield, Arthur Garrow, Daniel N. McCarty, Paul G. W. Schultz, Archbishop Maxey consecrated and enthroned as the third Archbishop-Primate of the AEC on 7 November 1986:

  10. Nils Bertil Alexander Persson (Mar Alexander) (1941-) Primate, The Apostolic Episcopal Church, Universal Primate, The Order of Corporate Reunion. Assisted by Archbishops Phillip Lewis and Paget E.J. Mack, Archbishop Persson consecrated and enthroned as AEC Archbishop of Great Britain and Bishop and Rector Pro-Provincial of Canterbury in the Order of Corporate Reunion on 23 November 2008:

  11. John Kersey (Mar Joannes Edmundus) (1972-) Primate, The Apostolic Episcopal Church, Prelate, Bishop and Rector Pro-Provincial of Canterbury in the Order of Corporate Reunion