Old Catholic Roots

of the

Church of Antioch

 

CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF ANTIOCH

MALABAR RITE

 

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THE OLD CATHOLIC ORIGINS OF THE CHURCH OF ANTIOCH

© 1998, The Catholic Apostolic Church of Antioch, Malabar Rite

Worldwide headquarters: Santa Fe, New Mexico 

Edited by Most Rev. Alan R. Kemp, D.Min.

The primary line of apostolic succession for the Church of Antioch (Catholic Apostolic Church of Antioch, Malabar Rite) is derived from Old Catholic and Roman Catholic sources. What became the Old Catholic Church came into being after a rift between the Archbishop of Utrecht, in Holland, and the Pope in the early part of the eighteenth century. This is an interesting story in its own right, but we do not have the space to go into it here. What we provide here is the succession from the earliest Roman Catholic prelate, Cardinal Scipione Rebiba, for which records exist (Note: 91% of all Roman Catholic bishops trace their own succession to this prelate).

On 12 March 1566 Cardinal Scipione Rebiba, Roman Catholic Bishop of Troia, consecrated Giulio Antonio Santorio, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Santa Severina, who on 7 September 1586 consecrated Girolamo Bernerio, O.P., Roman Catholic Bishop of Ascoli Piceno, who on 4 April 1604 consecrated Galeazzo Sanvitale, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bari, who on 2 May 1621 consecrated Ludovico Ludovisi, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bologna, who on 12 June 1622 consecrated Luigi Caetani, Roman Catholic Titular Patriarch of Antioch, who on 7 October 1630 consecrated Giovanni Battista Scannaroli, Roman Catholic Titular Bishop of Sidon, who on 24 October 1655 consecrated Antonio Barberini (the younger), Roman Catholic Bishop of Frascati, who on 11 November 1668 consecrated Charles Maurice Le Tellier, Roman Catholic Bishop of Mieux, who on 21 September 1670 consecrated Jaques Benigne Boussuet, who on 24 October 1693 consecrated Jaques Goyon De Matigon, who on 18 February 1719 consecrated Dominicus Marie Varlet, Roman Catholic Bishop of Babylon, who on 17 October 1739 consecrated Petrus Meindaerts, Old Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht, who on 11 July 1745 consecrated Johannes Van Stiphout, Old Catholic Bishop of Harrlem, who on 7 February 1768 consecrated Gualterus Michael Van Nieuwenhuizen, Old Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht, who on 21 June 1778 consecrated Adrianus Johannes Broekman, Old Catholic Bishop of Harrlem, who on 5 July 1797 consecrated Johannes Jacobus Van Rhijn, Old Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht, who on 7 November 1805 consecrated Gilbert Cornelius De Jong, Old Catholic Bishop of Deventer, who on 24 April 1814 consecrated

Willibord Van Os, Old Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht, who on 25 April 1819 consecrated Johannes Bon, Old Catholic Bishop of Haarlem, who on 13 November 1824 consecrated Johannes Van Santen, Old Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht, who on 17 July 1854 consecrated Casparus Johannes Rinkel, Old Catholic Bishop of Haarlem, who on 11 May 1892 consecrated Gerard Gul, Old Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht, who on 28 April 1908 consecrated Arnold Harris Mathew, Old Catholic Bishop for Great Britain, who on 28 October 1914 consecrated Frederick Samuel Willoughby, who on 13 February 1916 consecrated James Ingall Wedgwood, Presiding Bishop of the Liberal Catholic Church, who on 13 July 1919 consecrated Irving Steiger Cooper, Liberal Catholic Regionary Bishop for the U. S., who on 13 September 1931 consecrated Charles H. Hampton, Liberal Catholic Regionary Bishop for the U. S., who on 22 June 1957 consecrated Herman Adrian Spruit, who became Archbishop-Patriarch of the Church of Antioch and who on 7 October 1980 consecrated Meri Louise Spruit, who was enthroned as Archbishop-Matriarch on 26 January 1986 and who on 27 October 1990 consecrated Richard Alston Gundrey who became the Metropolitan Archbishop upon the retirement of Meri Louise Spruit on 20 September, 2004, and who was enthoned as Patriarch and Presiding Archbishop of the Church of Antioch on 19 February 2005 at the Church's Cathedral, Loretto Chapel, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.