Official Record of Apostolic Succession of

Mar Nikolaus (Perry Nikolaus Cedarholm, 05/18/1890 - 08/06/1979) as Bishop of Brooklyn and Staten
Island for The Apostolic Episcopal Church, assisted by Rev'd Fr. David Leondarides, The Greek Orthodox
Patriarchate of Jerusalem, on 6 December 1949. Mar Nikolaus returned to Sweden in 1951 and was
acknowledged as a Bishop by the Church of Sweden. He was enthroned as Bishop of Scandinavia for The
Apostolic Episcopal Church in 1953 by Bishop Herman Philippus Abbinga of the Osterns Apostoliske
Episkopale Kirke. In 1969 he assumed the position of Archbishop of The Apostolic Episcopal Church. Mar
Nikolaus consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Mar Alexander (Nils Bertil Alexander Persson, 11/10/1941 -- ) as Titular Bishop of Smyrna on 12 December
1971. Mar Alexander succeeded Archbishop Nikolaus (Cedarholm) as Archbishop of Scandinavia of The
Apostolic Episcopal Church on 22 July 1977. He was enthroned as Primate of The Apostolic Episcopal
Church by Archbishop Wallace David de Ortega Maxey on 7 November 1986. Archbishop Persson also
serves as the Missionary General for Scandinavia and All Europe for both the Iglesia Filipina Independiente
(Philippine Independent Catholic Church, confirmed 15 June 1988; this is a member jurisdiction of The
Anglican Communion) and the Igreja Católica Apostólica Brasiliera (Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church,
confirmed 14 June 1987). Archbishop Persson 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
Carlos Enrique Harvin - Bishop in 1996 for the African American Catholic Congregation. Bishop Harvin
consecrated on January 18, 2004
Franciscus-Mariae of the Blessed Sacrament, S.F.I. - Presiding Bishop and Exarch of the Apostolic
Society of Franciscan Communities and the Emergent Catholic Church (Congregational Catholic Churches
of America). Archbishop Salvato consecrated on March 1, 2006
Michael Vincent Seneco, SPSA – Archbishop & Protector of The Society of Pope Saint Anacletus
Apostolic Succession from
The Russian Orthodox Church
through Archbishop Theophanies Fan Stylian Noli
Bishop Makarij (Michael Nevskij, 1835 - 02/16/26) was consecrated in 1884 by Bishop Nikon of The
Russian Orthodox Church. He was elected Archbishop in 1906 and served as Metropolitan of Moscow and
Kolomenskoe from 1912-1917. Archbishop Makarij (Macarius) consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Evdokim (Basil Michaelovic Meschersky, 1869 - 1935) as Vicar Bishop, Diocese of Moscow, on 4
January 1904. Bishop Evdokim became Archbishop of Alaska and North America for The Russian Orthodox
Church in 1914. Archbishop Evdokim consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
Bishop Aftimios (Abdullah Ofiesh, 1880 - 1966) as Bishop of Brooklyn on 13 May 1917, assisted by Bishop
Stephen Alexander Dzubay of Pittsburgh and Bishop Alexander Alexandrovich Nemolovksy, Bishop of
Canada. Bishop Aftimios became Archbishop of The Syrian Orthodox Mission of The North American
Diocese of The Russian Orthodox Church in 1923. In 1927, urged on by the chaotic conditions in Russia,
the canonical Russian Patriarchial Bishops in the U.S.A. acted upon instructions and advice issued earlier
by Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow, and emphasized by his successor, the Locum Tenens (Sergius), and
Commissioned Bishop Aftimios to be Archbishop and to found and head an autocephalous American
Orthodox Catholic Church. Archbishop Aftimios consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate: