Official Record of Apostolic Succession of

131. Bishop William Ernest James Robertson (02/29/1875 - 1962) as Bishop of The African Orthodox
Church in The Cathedral Church of the Good Shepherd in New York City on 18 November 1923. Bp.
Robertson became Primate of The African Orthodox Church in 1934 and took the title of Mar James I.
Bishop Robertson, assisted by Abp. Richard Grant Robinson (Abp. of Philadelphia), Bp. Clement John Cyril
Sherwood, Bp. Collins Gordon Wolcott, and four other Bishops, consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
132. Bishop William Russell Miller (03/02/1900 - ?) as Bishop of The African Orthodox Church on 6
August 1950 and as African Orthodox Rector in Brooklyn, N.Y. Bp. Miller became Primate of The African
Orthodox Church in 1976. Ptr. Miller, assisted by Bp. George. Duncan Hinkson, consecrated to the Sacred
Episcopate:
133. Bishop Richard Thomas McFarland as Bishop of The African Orthodox Church on 31 October
1976. Bp. McFarland, assisted by Bp. Leonard J. Curreri (Tridentine Catholic Church), consecrated to the
Sacred Episcopate:
134. Bishop Peter Paul Brennan as Bishop in Our Lady Queen of Heaven Church, Long Island, N.Y. on
10 June 1978. Bp. Brennan, assisting Bp. Patrick J. Callahan, consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
135. Bishop Howard D. van Orden (1938 - ) as Bishop of The Western Rite Orthodox Catholic Church of
Jesus in St. Stephen's Orthodox Catholic Church of Savannah, Georgia, on 14 October 1984. Bp. van
Orden was consecrated sub conditione for The Philippine Independent Catholic Church in the Americas
on 10 December 1988 by Abp. Francisco de Jesus Pagtakhan (Archbishop Secretary for Missions,
Ecumenical Relations and Foreign Affairs), assisted by Abp. Paul Schultz, Bp. Christopher Rogers, and Bp.
Carroll Lowery. Bishop van Orden consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:
136. Bishop Karl Julius Barwin (10/16/43 - ) as Primate of The Evangelical Catholic Church on The
Feast of Saint Addai and Saint Mari (5 August) 1989, in The Chapel of The Holy Guardian Angels in
Glendale, California, assisting Archbishop Bertil Persson (The Apostolic Episcopal Church), Archbishop
Emile Federico Rodrigues y Fairfield (Iglesia Ortodoxa Catolica Apostolica Mexicana), Bishop Carroll T.
Lowery (The Apostolic Episcopal Church), and Archbishop Arthur J. Garrow (The Archiepiscopate
Ordinariate of Healing Arts Missionaries & Chaplains in America), each assisting, coöperating and coconsecrating
by laying on hands and uttering all the words of consecration. Assisting as Co-Consecrators
were Archbishop Paul Christian Gerald W. Schultz (Archbishop of Los Angeles, Administrator of The
Philippine Independent Catholic Church in The Americas, and Apostolic Administrator of the U.S.A. for The
Apostolic Episcopal Church), Bishop Eric T. Ong Veloso (Orthodox Catholic Church in The Philippines),
Bishop Christopher J. Rogers (Philippine Independent Catholic Church in The Americas), and Exarch
Marciel (Michael Marshall, Orthodox Old Catholic Church). Bishop Karl J. Barwin did consecrated to the
episcopate on May 12, 1990
137. George Augustus Stallings, Jr. - Patriarch and Archbishop of the African American Catholic
Congregation, who consecrated
138. Carlos Enrique Harvin - Bishop in 1996 for the African American Catholic Congregation. Bishop
Harvin consecrated on January 18, 2004
139. 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.