Official Record of Apostolic Succession of

Bishop James Coydon de Matignon
Bishop de Matignon, by order of Pope Clement XI, consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1719
Bishop Dominique Maria Varlet as Bishop of Ascalon in partibus and Co-Adjutor to the Bishop of Babylon,
Persia, on 12 February 1719 in The Chapel attached to the House of the Fathers of Foreign Missions at
Paris, assisted by the Co-Adjutor Bishop of Quebec and the Bishop of Claremont. Bishop Varlet consecrated
four Archbishops of Utrecht; three died without consecrating successors.
The continued existence of the autocephalous Old Roman Catholic Church of Holland was assured when
Bishop Varlet consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1739:
Archbishop Petrus Johannes Meindaerts
as the tenth Archbishop of Utrecht.
Archbishop Meindaerts consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Johannes van Stiphout as the fourth Bishop of Haarlem on 11 July 1745.
Bishop Stiphout consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Archbishop Walter Michael van Nieuwenhuisen as the eleventh Archbishop of Utrecht on Sexagesima
Sunday, 7 February 1768.
Archbishop Nieuwenhuisen consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Adrian Johannes Broekman, President of the Amersfoort Seminary, on Pentecost II Sunday, 21
June 1778, as Bishop of Haarlem.
Bishop Broekman consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Archbishop Johannes Jacobus van Rhijn as the twelfth Archbishop of Utrecht on 5 July 1797.
Archbishop van Rhijn consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Gisbertus de Jong as the fifth Bishop of Deventer on 7 November 1805.
Bishop de Jong consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Archbishop Willibrord van Os as the thirteenth Archbishop of Utrecht on 24 April 1814. Archbishop van
Os consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Johannes Bon as the seventh Bishop of Haarlem on 25 April 1819. He was the first Bishop of
the autocephalous Dutch succession not to be excommunicated by Rome.
Bishop Bon consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Archbishop Johannes van Santen, as fourteenth Archbishop of Utrecht on the Sunday within the Octave
of St. Willibrord, 13 November 1825, in The Cathedral of St. Gertrude in Utrecht.
Archbishop van Santen consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Hermann Heykamp as seventh Bishop of Deventer on 17 July 1853.
Bishop Heykamp consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Gaspardus Johannes Rinkel as the tenth Bishop of Haarlem and Bishop Josef Hubert Reinkens
as the first Bishop of The Old Catholic Church in Germany (Bonn) on 11 August 1873 in the Church of St.
Lawrence and St. Mary Magdalene at Rotterdam. This is the first time that the formal proofs of election were
read during the Mass of Consecration instead of the Papal Mandate; it is also the first time that the new
Bishops did not notify Rome of their consecrations. Bishop Rinkel consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Archbishop Gerardus Gul, parish priest of Hilversum, as the seventeenth Archbishop of Utrecht, on 11
May 1892.
Archbishop Gul consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate: