Official Record of Apostolic Succession of

The Apostolic Succession from The Mariavite Old Catholic
Church
The Mariavite Old Catholic Church separated from the Roman Communion in 1906, and elected as their
bishop Minister General Jean Marie Michel Kowaleski, a priest ordained in the Roman Catholic Church. The
succession of the Mariavite Old Catholic Church comes through Cardinal Antonio Barberini, nephew of Pope
Urban VII, and through the Ultrajectine (Old Catholic Church), of which Archbishop Gerardus Gul became
the seventeenth Archbishop of Utrecht, in 1892.
SUCCESSION I
Bishop Johann Michael Kowalski was consecrated in Utrecht, Holland, on 5 October 1909 by Archbishop
Gerard Gul of Utrecht, Archbishop Arnold Harris Mathew (Archbishop of London, Old Catholic Church of
England), Bishop Johannes Jacobus van Thiel and Bishop Nicolas Bartholomaeus Petrus Spit (Old Catholic
Church of Holland), and Bishop Joseph Demmel (Bishop of Bonn, Old Catholic Church of Germany), as
Bishop for the Polish Catholic Church of the Mariavites. Bishop Kowalski consecrated to the Sacred
Episcopate:
Bishop Marc Marie (Paul Fatome) on 4 September 1938 as Regionary Bishop for France. Bishop Marc
Marie consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Paulus (Helmut Norbert Maas) on 6 October 1949 as Bishop of the Mariavite Catholic Church in
Germany (Katholische Kirche der Mariaviten in Deutschland). Bishop Paulus consecrated to the Sacred
Episcopate:
Bishop Efrem Maria Mauro Fusi on 24 May 1953 as Bishop for The Mariavite Catholic Church in Italy
(Chiesa Cattolica Mariavita). Bishop Fusi consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Clement Alfio Sgroi Marchese on 26 May 1954 as Bishop of Sicily for The Mariavite Catholic
Church in Italy. Bishop Marchese consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Mar Georgius (Hugh George de Willmott Newman) on 18 September 1954 as Patriarch of Glastonbury (and
the 6th British Orthodox Patriarch). Mar Georgius consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Charles Dennis Boltwood on 6 July 1956 as Titular Bishop of Thorney and Auxiliary Bishop for
London north of the Thames. Bishop Boltwood consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Archbishop Emmett Neil Enochs on 31 August 1958 at Los Angeles, California, as Archbishop of
California, Primate of the United States for the Free Protestant Episcopal Church and Titular Missionary
Bishop in The Catholic Apostolic Church, assisted by Rev'd Frederick C. King, Ph.D., Rev'd Karla King, and
Rev'd Marshall Ho'o. Archbishop Enochs consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Frederick Charles King on 19 May 1963 for the Old Roman Catholic Church. Bishop King
consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Paul Christian G. W. Schultz on 18 May 1975, assisted by Bishop George A. Lyman (American
Orthodox Catholic Church). Bishop Schultz consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Karl Julius Barwin
Primate, The Evangelical Catholic Church. Bishop Karl J. Barwin did consecrated to the episcopate on May
12, 1990
George Augustus Stallings, Jr. - Patriarch and Archbishop of the African American Catholic Congregation,
who consecrated