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OUR IDENTITY
The Anglican Free Communion is a confederation of independent and autocephalous Denominations or Churches exercising identity in particularity resulting from the autonomy of every individual Church. Each Church : – exists in harmony with one another and follows a spirituality and practice within an Anglican ethos. – only accepts any form of centrality as part of a world-wide family of Churches This ecclesial model is both catholic and protestant as understood in traditional terms Each Province contains Churches or Denominations having their own jurisdiction and diocesan structures. Any Church having it’s own canonical organisation is named within that Province, the latter title being reserved to that of the Anglican Free Communion itself. Where there is no Denominational title it is assumed that the Provinces are not only those of the Anglican Free Communion (a confederation or family of Churches) but are of the Episcopal Free Church. Some of these may also prefer to use the original title; the Free Protestant Episcopal Church or the Free Protestant Episcopal Church of England The Anglican Free Communion – The Episcopal Free Church : – is a group of Christians on pilgrimage to and in Jesus Christ – possesses a spirituality which is inclusive, equitable and ecumenical – rejoices in our freedom in Christ – has an ecumenistic outlook – possesses values of equity and inclusiveness – promotes the Universal Human Rights Declaration – seeks the promotion of a just society – strives to make present the Kingdom of God – in present-time – has an “Anglican ethos” as reflected in our diverse forms of worship – our identities include : Anglo-Catholic, Charismatic, Evangelical, Latitudinarian and Liberal – was founded as The Free Protestant Episcopal Church – is a self-governing independent Anglican episcopal community worldwide – consists of autonomous Provinces, comprising self-governing churches and families of churches – respects all primates and leaders of the Christian world – believes the Word of God (Old & New Testaments) contains all necessary for Salvation – holds Apostolic and Sacramental Traditions as defined in the first four church councils – accepts as symbols of the faith the Apostolic, Nicene and Athanasius Creeds – holds Apostolic Succession – is not subject to any primate beyond our jurisdiction or any European monarch – rejects imperialism and violence (physical, economic, psychological or other)
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The FPEC has also used the names “Episcopal
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1689 |
Non-jurors became independent of the Church of |
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1726 |
Non-juroring bishop Dr Timothy Newmarsh consecrated |
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1804 |
Non-jurors identified as the Ancient British Church |
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1805 |
Non-jurors ceased when the last of their bishops died |
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1866 |
The Ancient British Church founded by Charles Isaac |
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1866 |
Jules (Raymond) Ferrette, |
Mutran Boutros
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1866 |
Francis George Widdows, previously a Roman Catholic Franciscan |
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1866 |
Leon Checkemian priested by Leon Chorchorunian |
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1873 |
The Nazarene Episcopal Ecclesia founded by James |
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1874 |
Richard Williams Morgan |
Jules (Raymond) Ferrette |
1874 |
Ancient British Church founded by Richard Williams Morgan (Mar Pelagius I) |
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1877 |
Lee and Seccombe, together with Thomas Mossman were the |
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1878 |
Leon Checkemian cons. / made a vardapet by Armenian |
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1879 |
Charles Isaac Stevens
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Richard Williams Morgan, Frederick George Lee & |
1879 |
Reformed Episcopal Church of the UK founded by Charles |
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1879 |
The Ancient British Church, as the Non-jurors, opposed |
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1885 |
Leon Checkemian, through contacts with Anglicans, |
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1888 |
Nazarene Episcopal Church founded by James Martin and |
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1888 |
James Martin cons. on 11 April |
Alfred Spencer Richardson of |
1889 |
The Free Protestant Church of England founded by Leon |
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1889 |
United Armenian Catholic Church of the British Isles founded |
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1889 |
Leon Checkemian preached in Presbyterian churches in |
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1890 |
Nazarene College / seminary founded |
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1890 |
Leon Checkemian |
Charles Isaac Stevens & Alfred Spencer |
1890 |
Leon Checkemian licensed to officiate within the |
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1890 |
Plunket opposed Anglo-Catholicism, which he viewed as |
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1894 |
Juan Bautista Cabrera cons. for the Spanish Reformed |
William C Plunket |
1897 |
Leon Korkorunian |
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1897 |
William C Plunket |
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1897 |
THE FREE
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1897 |
George Walter Lewis Maeers (b. 1855 in Kent) cons. on 02 |
James Martin |
1897 |
Frederick William Boucher cons. on 02 November, |
James Martin |
1897 |
Andrew Charles Albert McLaglen |
Leon Checkemian, Stevens, Martin, Maeers and Boucher |
1897 |
James Martin cons. sub conditione as Archbishop of |
Leon Checkemian, Stevens, Martin, Maeers and Boucher |
1897 |
St. Stephen’s Church, Shrewsburg Road, East Ham, |
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1898 |
Frederick William Boucher (legally spelled Baucher) |
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1899 |
Richard Williams Morgan 1815 – 1899 |
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1900 |
FPEC 2nd Primus : Charles Isaac Stevens |
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1901 |
Andrew Charles Albert McLaglen and his family were |
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1904 |
Jules (Raymond) Ferrette 1828 – 1904. He died |
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1909 |
Church of Martin Luther affiliated with the FPEC |
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1909 |
St. Stephen’s Church, Shrewsburg Road, East Ham, London |
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1909 |
The Church of Martin Luther, located at 26 Speldhurst |
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1916 |
Juan Bautista Cabrera |
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1916 |
Benjamin Charles Harris cons. on 25 July as FPEC |
James Martin |
1916 |
Ernest Mumby cons. as FPEC Bishop of Caer-Leirion |
James Martin |
1917 |
The British Government recognised the FPEC when The Worshipful Magistrate arrived at this conclusion |
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1917 |
Charles Isaac Stevens |
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1917 |
FPEC 3rd Primus : James Martin |
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1917 |
The General Synod of the FPEC as of 21 April 1917 |
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1917 |
FPEC possessed its own Canons Ecclesiastical. Legislative and administrative authority |
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1919 |
James Martin |
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1919 |
FPEC 4th Primus : Andrew Charles Albert |
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1919 |
The mission church of St. Andrew’s at Retreat Place, |
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1920 |
LEON CHECKEMIAN 1848 – 1920. He died on 03 December |
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1922 |
Francis George Widdows cons. on 04 June at St. |
Andrew Charles Albert McLaglen |
1922 |
Herbert James Monzani Heard |
Andrew Charles Albert McLaglen |
1922 |
“The |
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1922 |
Five northern diocese churches of the Reformed Episcopal |
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1927 |
Benjamin Charles Harris was pastor for Romford |
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1928 |
Frederick William Boucher 1855 – 1928. He was |
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1928 |
Andrew Charles Albert McLaglen 1851 – 1928 |
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1928 |
FPEC 5th Primus : Herbert James Monzani |
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1929 |
Benjamin Charles Harris, moved to Hertfordshire when |
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1930 |
Herbert James Monzani Heard consecrated bishops for |
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1930 |
Victor Alexander Palmer Hayman cons. on 20 April for |
Herbert James Monzani Heard |
1930 |
William Newton cons. For the Evangelical Church of |
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1936 |
Francis George Widdows 1850 – 1936. He |
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1936 |
Stonebridge Road Methodist Church in South Tottenham |
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1936 |
Charles Leslie Saul & Gordon Pinder presbyterially |
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1937 |
Between 1937 – 1941, using the pseudonym |
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1938 |
Frederick Charles Aloysius Harrington cons. on 13 June |
Herbert James Monzani Heard |
1938 |
Herbert James Monzani Heard disliked the name FPEC and |
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1939 |
William Hall cons. on 18 May in St. Andrew’s Church, |
Herbert James Monzani Heard |
1939 |
FPEC 5th Primus : William Hall |
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1939 |
Ernest Mumby died on 12 September in Blackpool, |
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1940 |
James Dominic Mary O’Gavigan cons. on 20 May for own |
Herbert James Monzani Heard |
1942 |
Ernest Albert Asquith |
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1942 |
Boltwood founded the College of Spiritual Science, a |
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1943 |
William Bernard Crow cons. |
Herbert James Monzani Heard |
1944 |
Hugh George de Willmott Newman |
William Bernard Crow |
1944 |
Hugh George de Willmott Newman granted primacy of the United |
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1944 |
Gordon Pinder cons. on 17 September for the |
Benjamin Charles Harris & Hugh George de Willmott |
1944 |
Charles Leslie Saul cons. on 17 September for the |
Benjamin Charles Harris & Hugh George de Willmott |
1944 |
Joseph K C Pillai cons. on 17 September for the |
Benjamin Charles Harris & Hugh George de Willmott |
1944 |
Charles Leslie Saul cons. on 17 September |
Benjamin Charles Harris |
1944 |
Gordon Pinder cons. on 17 September |
Benjamin Charles Harris |
1944 |
Joseph K C |
Benjamin Charles Harris |
1945 |
Hugh George de Willmott Newman granted primacy of the |
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1945 |
Joseph K C Pillai, ECC bishop for India |
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1945 |
The Evangelical Church of England Primus : Gordon |
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1945 |
English Episcopal Church Primus : Charles Leslie Saul |
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1946 |
Charles Dennis Boltwood |
Hugh George De Willmott Newman |
1946 |
Benjamin Charles Harris 1884 – 1946. He was |
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1947 |
Herbert James Monzani Heard 1866 – 1947 |
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1949 |
Rev’d Frederick C King (1917-85) and his wife the |
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1949 |
The FPEC had almost ceased to function |
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1949 |
William Hall invited Charles Dennis Boltwood to join |
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1950 |
Charles Dennis Boltwood cons. on 25 December, in |
Earl Anglin Lawrence James of the Old Roman Catholic |
1950 |
Gordon Pinder died |
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1950 |
Grant Timothy Billet cons. on 25 December |
Charles Dennis Boltwood |
1951 |
Charles Dennis Boltwood joined the FPEC and ordained, |
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1952 |
William Hall continued the practice of consecrating |
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1952 |
John Leslie Baines cons. |
William Hall |
1952 |
John Leslie Baines (b.1883), a non-parochial priest in |
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1952 |
Charles Dennis Boltwood cons. on 06 April for FPEC |
William Hall |
1952 |
Charles Dennis Boltwood cons. on 13 April (2nd time) |
Hugh George De Willmott Newman |
1953 |
Ronald Powell (Richard, Duc de Palatine) cons. on 25 |
Herbert James Monzani Heard |
1953 |
Ronald Powell incorporated the Nazarene College as |
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1954 |
William Hall appointed Charles Dennis Boltwood his |
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1955 |
Nazarene College was merged with St. Andrew’s |
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1956 |
Charles Dennis Boltwood cons. on 06 July (3rd time) |
Hugh George De Willmott Newman |
1956 |
Nestor Joseph Emile Antoine Frippiat cons. on 02 Sept |
Charles Dennis Boltwood |
1956 |
Walter Joseph Hendrik Van Den Berghe cons. on 02 Sept |
Charles Dennis Boltwood |
1957 |
Emmet Neil Enochscons cons. in California as |
Charles Dennis Boltwood |
1957 |
Emmet Neil Enochs cons. on 02 June (1st cons) |
Charles Dennis Boltwood |
1957 |
James Burrows Noble cons. on 04 Sept |
Charles Dennis Boltwood |
1958 |
Charles Dennis Boltwood cons. on 19 September |
Konstantin Jaroshevich of the Holy Orthodox Church of |
1958 |
Charles Dennis Boltwood consecrated bishops for West |
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1958 |
Emmet Neil Enochs cons. on 31 Aug (2nd cons) |
Charles Dennis Boltwood |
1958 |
Reginald Benjamin Millard cons. on 15 Apr |
Charles Dennis Boltwood |
1958 |
Emmanuel Samuel Yekorogha cons. on 06 June |
Charles Dennis Boltwood |
1958 |
Benjamin Charles Eckhardt cons. on 16 Aug |
Charles Dennis Boltwood |
1958 |
Charles Kennedy Samuel Moffatt cons. on 24 Aug |
Charles Dennis Boltwood |
1959 |
FPEC 6th Primus : Charles Dennis |
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1959 |
William Hall |
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1959 |
Terence Hope Davenport cons. Born in 1900, he was a non-parochial priest in the |
William Hall |
1959 |
Baines & Davenport did not establish their own |
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1959 |
John Marion Stanley cons. on 03 May, in London |
Boltwood, James B Noble and Reginald Benjamin Millard |
1959 |
James Ormerod cons. on 24 July as Primus of the |
Wiliam Hall |
1959 |
John Marion Stanley cons. on 03 May |
Charles Dennis Boltwood |
1960 |
Charles Dennis Boltwood resigned from the Catholicate |
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1960 |
Eric Daenecke cons. on 12 December |
Charles Dennis Boltwood |
1961 |
Dr Francis Thomas cons. in London |
Charles Dennis Boltwood |
1961 |
John Trollnas cons. early in the year |
Charles Dennis Boltwood |
1961 |
Francis Thomas cons. on 04 July |
Charles Dennis Boltwood |
1962 |
William Charles Cato-Symonds cons. on 15 Apr |
Charles Dennis Boltwood |
1963 |
F C King cons. as FPEC Archbishop of the USA |
Emmet Neil Enochs |
1963 |
Frederick Charles King cons. on 19 May, on the |
Emmet Neil Enochs |
1964 |
Harry Kenneth Means and his wife Rita travelled to |
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1964 |
Harry Kenneth Means cons. on 16 August at St. Andrew’s |
Charles Dennis Boltwood, Francis Thomas, and Albert |
1964 |
Harry Kenneth Means, via friends in the North American |
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1964 |
POPE PAUL VI blessed Harry |
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1964 |
Harry Kenneth Means was given VIP seating at St. |
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1964 |
Donald Jay Foard cons. on the authority of Boltwood |
Emmet Neil Enochs |
1964 |
Samuel Richard Acquah cons. on 19 July on the |
Emmanuel Samuel Yekorogha |
1966 |
Albert John Fuge cons. as the new bishop of the FPEC |
Charles Dennis Boltwood |
1966 |
The final graduation dinner for St. Andrew’s |
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1966 |
James Everard Thornhill cons. on 24 Apr |
Charles Dennis Boltwood |
1966 |
Arthur Olawale Nelson-Cole cons. on 29 May |
Charles Dennis Boltwood |
1966 |
Albert John Fuge cons. on 16 Oct |
Charles Dennis Boltwood |
1968 |
Joseph K C |
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1968 |
Albert John Fuge became Archbishop of New York and |
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1968 |
Albert John Fuge was based at the Boltwood Chapel, 177 |
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1968 |
Edwin Duane Follick |
Charles Dennis Boltwood (sola) |
1968 |
E J Evans cons. during the summer |
Charles Dennis Boltwood (sola) |
1968 |
William Carson Thompson cons. between September 1968 |
Albert John Fuge |
1970 |
Joseph K C Pillai |
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1970 |
Ernest Percival Parris cons. in the spring, on the |
Albert John Fuge (sola) |
1970 |
The Free Protestant Episcopal Christian Church, Inc. |
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1970 |
Willard D Mayo may have been cons. in January |
Eric Daenecke |
1971 |
Robert Randolph Rivette cons. on 19 October in the |
Albert John Fuge |
1971 |
Gordon Albert Da Costa cons. on 18 June |
Charles Dennis Boltwood |
1971 |
William Elliot Littlewood cons. on 19 June |
Charles Dennis Boltwood |
1971 |
Russell Grant Fry, Jr cons. on 19 June |
Charles Dennis Boltwood |
1971 |
Horst Karl Frederick Block cons. on 09 Aug (1st cons) |
Charles Dennis Boltwood |
1971 |
Robert Randolph Rivette cons. on 19 Oct |
Charles Dennis Boltwood |
1972 |
Horst Karl Frederick Block cons. 26 March (2nd cons) |
Charles Dennis Boltwood |
1972 |
John Lawrence Brown cons. on 21 May, on the authority of Boltwood |
Albert John Fuge |
1972 |
FPEC’s Diocese of Texas was incorporated in the State |
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1974 |
The Boltwood Chapel was consecrated on 27 October by |
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1974 |
The Convocation of the FPEC passed a new Constitution |
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1978 |
FPEC 7th Primus : Albert John Fuge – |
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1978 |
Horst K F |
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1978 |
Dr Block became International Primus of a schismatic |
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1982 |
Albert John Fuge |
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1982 |
Robert Randolph Rivette, FPEC bishop for Texas, |
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1982 |
FPEC 8th Primus : Charles Kennedy Stewart |
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1982 |
Dr Boltwood directed Dr Francis Thomas to wind down FPEC |
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1982 |
Robert George Montanus cons. on 15 December |
John M Stanley |
1985 |
Charles Dennis Boltwood 1889 – 1985. He was |
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1988 |
James Nicholas Meola cons. on 13 March |
John Allen Rifenbury and Robert Randolph Rivette Troy Arnold Kaichen of Virginia is listed in some histories |
1989 |
Charles Kennedy Stewart Moffatt 1907 – 1989. He died without designating a successor as Primus |
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1991 |
Charles Leslie Saul |
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1991 |
Melvin Frederick Larson (b. 1920) of Lynnwood, |
Robert Randolph Rivette |
1993 |
Matthew John Carles Tuz cons. on 03 July. (b. 1951, London, ON) |
Robert Randolph Rivette |
1994 |
FPEC 8th Primus : Edwin Duane Follick. On 07 November he was accorded the |
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1994 |
Eric Daenecke |
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1997 |
The Protestant Episcopal Reformed Church, previously |
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1997 |
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, 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, |
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1997 |
Willard D Mayo died. |
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1999 |
Preston Bradley Carey cons. on 01 Aug |
Robert George Montanus |
2001 |
Block’s Church became known as the International Free |
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2001 |
Aaron Robin Orr (1940-2010) of Hamilton, ON, TIFPEC |
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2001 |
Aaron Robin Orr cons. |
Horst K F Block |
2003 |
Rev’d Cecil G Cobran, BTh., of London, He died on 08 March and was one of the last of the |
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2004 |
Robert Randolph Rivette 1916 – 2004. He died on |
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2004 |
Harry Kenneth Means He had been a Universalist minister who was the leader |
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2004 |
Joseph Spyridon Christopher Chaskos cons. on 15 |
Horst K F Block |
2005 |
Muhammad Wolfgang Schmidt cons. on 20 March |
Horst K F Block |
2005 |
Peter Leers cons. on 26 November at Leers home chapel |
Horst K F Block, Muhammad Wolfgang Schmidt |
2006 |
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 |
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2007 |
Francesco Reale cons. on 10 August as Bishop of |
Horst K F Block, Peter Leers |
2008 |
Horst K F Block |
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2008 |
Ernest Percival Parris died on 24 September |
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2008 |
Peter Leers succeeded Block as Primus of TIFPEC |
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2011 |
Peter Leers dissolved TIFPEC, ending the schism |
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2012 |
The FPEC General Synod in Bolivia issued a mission |
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2012 |
The FPEC now also known as : THE ANGLICAN FREE |
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2012 |
During Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee the Church |
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2015 |
AFC 9th Primus : Richard Arthur Palmer, |
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2016 |
Pre-Nicene Catholic Church founded by George William |
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2016 |
The Ancient British Church continues today in several |
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2016 |
Wikipedia : There are many hundreds, perhaps |
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2020 |
THE ANGLICAN FREE COMMUNION now also known as : THE ANGLICAN FREE COMMUNION INTERNATIONAL |
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2020 |
AFCI 10th Primus : Ronald Lee Firestone,on 01 January primate in line of succession and first of our international communion |
1890 Consecration of Leon
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1678 |
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William Sancroft |
Archbishop of Canterbury |
1694 |
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George Hickes |
Asst Bp of Thetford, England |
1712 |
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James Gadderar |
Aberdeen, Scotland |
1727 |
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Thomas Rattray |
Dunkeld, Scotland |
1741 |
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William Falconer/Falconar |
Caithness, Scotland |
1768 |
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Robert Kilgour |
Aberdeen, Scotland |
1784 |
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Samuel Seabury |
Connecticut, USA |
1792 |
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Thomas Clagett |
Maryland |
1797 |
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Edward Bass |
Massachusetts |
1797 |
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Abraham Jarvis |
Connecticut |
1811 |
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Alexander Viets Griswold |
Eastern Diocese, USA |
1832 |
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John Henry Hopkins |
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Patriarch Ignatius Elias II (1838–47) |
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1846 |
Mutran Boutros, Ignatius Peter IV, Syrian Orthodox |
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1866 |
Jules (Raymond) Ferrette |
George David Cummins |
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1873 |
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Charles Edward Cheney |
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1874 |
Richard Williams Morgan |
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1876 |
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William Rufus Nicholson |
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1879 |
Charles Isaac Stevens |
Alfred Spencer Richardson |
Reformed Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, USA |
1890 |
Leon Checkemian co-cons’d by Alfred Spencer Richardson |
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