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Catholic tradition and the Old Catholic Church of Utrecht; it remains a
Catholic Church and its priests are considered Catholic priests; the two
primary lines of Apostolic Succession enjoyed by the Reformed Catholic
Church are the Antiochian-Jacobite and the Roman-Old Catholic; the
current Archbishop is the Most Reverend Robert J. Allmen of the Church
of the Good Shepherd, Hampton Bays, New York; the Diocese of Costa
Rica is called “Our Lady Mother of God”) - http://www.reformedcatholic.org
A2.519 African-American Catholic Congregation (1989, Washington, DC;
George A. Stallings, Jr.)
A2.520 Christ Catholic Church International (1993, Niagara Falls, ON,
Canada, with William Donald Mullen as presiding Archbishop).
Formed as a merger between several Old Catholic jurisdictions and has
subsequently grown through further mergers; includes groups previously known
as: Liberal Catholic Church of Ontario (1930s), Church of St. Francis of Assisi
(1955), Christ Catholic Church (1989), Ontario Old Catholic Church (1962), Old
Catholic Church of British Columbia (1920s).
A2.521 Reformed Apostolic Roman Catholic Church, RARCC – Iglesia
Católica Romana Apostólica Reformada (1998, Miami, Florida; Bishop
Dr. Karl Raimund Rodig). Formed among progressive priests in the USA,
Africa, Sri Lanka, and Latin America to create a place for marginalized
Roman Catholics to worship and serve without discri-mination. The
RARCC allows priests to marry, allows women full participation in the
priesthood, and offers Holy Communion to all who attend (including the
excommunicated, the divorced and remarried, homosexuals, etc.);
bishops are chosen by the laity, and there is an ecumenical spirit of
cooperation with other Christian churches, Catholic and non-Catholic;
officials report about 10,000 members in the USA, about the same
amount in Africa and Sri Lanka, and a few hundred in Central America
(Costa Rica has 5 churches and about 250 members in 2007) -
http://www.prolades.com/profiles/icref.htm
A2.5211 The Catholic Ecumenical Church of Christ – Iglesia Católica
Ecuménica de Cristo (2007, Costa Rica; Monseñor Sebastián Herrera
Plá; the name of this denomination changed in late 2007; it was
previously known as the Reformed Apostolic Roman Catholic Church;
its headquarters are located in Urbanización La Giralda, Province of
Alajuela; Bishop Herrera Plá administers the Diocese of Our Lady Mother
of God in Costa Rica as well as the jurisdictions of Central America,
Panama and Cuba, under Ecumenical Archbishop Dr. Karl Raimund
Rodig in Miami, FL) - http://icarr.netcuba.org/news.php
A2.522 Our Lady of Guadalupe Apostolic Catholic Church – Iglesia Católica
Apostólica “Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe” (2001, Mexico City, Mexico;
Archbishop Kenneth Maley, who is part Shawnee [an American Indian
tribe], previously was a member of the Community of the Holy Cross for
28 years and a Roman Catholic Church priest for 32 years; he served as
a missionary in Chile and Africa during that time; after leaving the
Roman Catholic Church, Maley helped to organize the Latin American
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