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The Latin Catholic Apostolic Succession of Saints Peter and Paul the Apostles down through the Roman Catholic Papacy to the Old Roman Catholic Catholic Churches stand as a Co-Consecrating line of apostolic succession of the The United Holy Caribbean Apostolic Church.

St. Peter the Apostle (32-67)

St. Linus the Apostle (67-76)

St. Anacletus (Cletus) (76-88)

St. Clement I (88-97)

St. Evaristus (97-105)

St. Alexander I (105-115)

St. Sixtus I (115-125)

St. Telesphorus (125-136)

St. Hyginus (136-140)

St. Pius I (140-155)

St. Anicetus (155-166)

St. Soter (166-175)

St. Eleutherius (175-189)

St. Victor I (189-199)

St. Zephyrinus (199-217)

St. Callistus I (217-222)

St. Urban I (222-230)

St. Pontain (230-235)

St. Anterus (235-236)

St. Fabian (236-250)

St. Cornelius (251-253)

St. Lucius I (253-254)

St. Stephen I (254-257)

St. Sixtus II (257-258)

St. Dionysius (260-268)

St. Felix I (269-274)

St. Eutychian (275-283)

St. Caius (283-296) Also called Gaius

St. Marcellinus (296-304)

St. Marcellus I (308-309)

St. Eusebius (309 or 310)

St. Miltiades (311-14)

St. Sylvester I (314-335)

St. Marcus (336)

St. Julius I (337-352)

Liberius (352-366)

St. Damasus I (366-384)

St. Siricius (384-399)

St. Anastasius I (399-401)

St. Innocent I (401-417)

St. Zosimus (417-418)

St. Boniface I (418-22)

St. Celestine I (422-432)

St. Sixtus III (432-440)

St. Leo I (the Great) (440-61)

St. Hilarius (461-468)

St. Simplicius (468-483)

St. Felix III (II) (483-492)

St. Gelasius I (492-496)

Anastasius II (496-498)

St. Symmachus (498-514)

St. Hormisdas (514-523)

St. John I (523-526)

St. Felix IV (III) (526-530)

Boniface II (530-32)

John II (533-535)

St. Agapetus I (535-536) Also called Agapitus I

St. Silverius (536-537)

Vigilius (537-555)

Pelagius I (556-561)

John III (561-574)

Benedict I (575-579)

Pelagius II (5795-90)

St. Gregory the Great (590-604)

Sabinian (604-606)

Boniface III (607)

St. Boniface IV (608-615)

St. Deusdedit (Adeodatus I) (615-618)

Boniface V (619-25)

Honorius I (625-638)

Severinus (640)

John IV (640-642)

Theodore I (642-649)

St. Martin I (649-655)

St. Eugene I (655-657)

St. Vitalian (657-672)

Adeodatus (II) (672-676)

Donus (676-678)

St. Agatho (678-681)

St. Leo II (682-683)

St. Benedict II (684-685)

John V (685-686)

Conon (686-687)

St. Sergius I (687-701)

John VI (701-705)

John VII (705-707)

Sisinnius (708)

Constantine (708-715)

St. Gregory II (715-731)

St. Gregory III (731-741)

St. Zachary (741-52) Stephen II followed Zachary, but because he died before being consecrated, modern lists omit him

Stephen II (III) (752-757)

St. Paul I (757-767)

Stephen III (IV) (767-772)

Adrian I (772-795)

St. Leo III (795-816)

Stephen IV (V) (816-817)

St. Paschal I (817-824)

Eugene II (824-827)

Valentine (827)

Gregory IV (827-844)

Sergius II (844-847)

St. Leo IV (847-855)

Benedict III (855-858)

St. Nicholas I the Great (8588-67)

Adrian II (8678-872)

John VIII (872-8882)

Marinus I (882-84)

St. Adrian III (884-885)

Stephen V (VI) (8858-91)

Formosus (891-896)

Boniface VI (896)

Stephen VI (VII) (896-897)

Romanus (897)

Theodore II (897)

John IX (898-900)

Benedict IV (900-903)

Leo V (903)

Sergius III (904-911)

Anastasius III (911-913)

Lando (913-914)

John X (914-928)

Leo VI (928)

Stephen VIII (929-31)

John XI (931-935)

Leo VII (936-939)

Stephen IX (939-942)

Marinus II (942-946)

Agapetus II (9469-55)

John XII (955-963)

Leo VIII (963-964)

Benedict V (964)

John XIII (965-972)

Benedict VI (973-974)

Benedict VII (974-983)

John XIV (983-984)

John XV (985-996)

Gregory V (996-999)

Sylvester II (999-1003)

John XVII (1003)

John XVIII (1003-1009)

Sergius IV (1009-1012)

Benedict VIII (1012-1024)

John XIX (1024-1032)

Benedict IX (1032-45) He appears on this list three separate times, because he was twice deposed and restored

Sylvester III (1045) Considered by some to be an antipope

Benedict IX (1045)

Gregory VI (1045-1046)

Clement II (1046-1047)

Benedict IX (1047-1048)

Damasus II (1048)

St. Leo IX (1049-1054)

Victor II (1055-1057)

Stephen X (1057-1058)

Nicholas II (1058-1061)

Alexander II (1061-1073)

St. Gregory VII (1073-1085)

Blessed Victor III (1086-1087)

Blessed Urban II (1088-1099)

Paschal II (1099-1118)

Gelasius II (1118-1119)

Callistus II (1119-1124)

Honorius II (1124-1130)

Innocent II (1130-1143)

Celestine II (1143-1144)

Lucius II (1144-1145)

Blessed Eugene III (1145-1153)

Anastasius IV (1153-1154)

Adrian IV (1154-1159)

Alexander III (1159-1181)

Lucius III (1181-1185)

Urban III (1185-1187)

Gregory VIII (1187)

Clement III (1187-1191)

Celestine III (1191-1198)

Innocent III (1198-1216)

Honorius III (1216-1227)

Gregory IX (1227-1241)

Celestine IV (1241)

Innocent IV (1243-1254)

Alexander IV (1254-1261)

Urban IV (1261-1264)

Clement IV (1265-1268)

Blessed Gregory X (1271-1276)

Blessed Innocent V (1276)

Adrian V (1276)

John XXI (1276-1277)

Nicholas III (1277-1280)

Martin IV (1281-1285)

Honorius IV (1285-1287)

Nicholas IV (1288-1292)

St. Celestine V (1294)

Boniface VIII (1294-1303)

Blessed Benedict XI (1303-1304)

Clement V (1305-1314)

John XXII (1316-34)

Benedict XII (1334-1342)

Clement VI (1342-1352)

Innocent VI (1352-1362)

Blessed Urban V (1362-1370)

Gregory XI (1370-1378)

Urban VI (1378-1389)

Boniface IX (1389-1404)

Innocent VII (1404-1406)

Gregory XII (1406-1415)

Martin V (1417-1431)

Eugene IV (1431-1447)

Nicholas V (1447-1455)

Callistus III (1455-1458)

Pius II (1458-1464)

Paul II (1464-1471)

Sixtus IV (1471-1484)

Innocent VIII (1484-1492)

Alexander VI (1492-1503)

Pius III (1503)

Julius II (1503-1513)

Leo X (1513-1521)

Adrian VI (1522-23)

Clement VII (1523-1534)

Paul III (1534-1549)

Julius III (1550-1555)

Marcellus II (1555)

Paul IV (1555-1559)

Pius IV (1559-1565)

St. Pius V (1566-1572)

Gregory XIII (1572-85)

Sixtus V (1585-90)

Urban VII (1590)

Gregory XIV (1590-91)

Innocent IX (1591)

Clement VIII (1592-1605)

Leo XI (1605)

Paul V (1605-21)

Gregory XV (1621-23)

Urban VIII (1623-44)

Innocent X (1644-55)

Alexander VII (1655-67)

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The Diocese of Utrecht, Holland, was founded in AD 722 by St. Willibrord. The right of the Chapter of Utrecht to elect the bishop of The Diocese was recognized in AD 1145. In AD 1520 the Bishop of Utrecht was given the right to adjudicate matters in his diocese without appeal or recourse to Rome. In AD 1559, when the war with France had ended, Philip II of Spain, the hereditary ruler of the Netherlands, persuaded the Pope to elevate The See of Utrecht to an archbishopric, with five new dioceses under it (Haarlem, Deventer, Groningen, Leeuwarden and Middelburg). Having survived the Calvinist Reformation in Holland as an underground Church, the Dutch Roman Catholic faithful were suddenly subjected to the political ambitions and maneuverings of the Jesuits, who fought to have Rome declare The See of Utrecht a missionary district under their control. At first failing in this battle to gain control of The Church in Holland, the Jesuits adopted a new tactic in AD 1691 by accusing + Peter Codde, The Archbishop of Utrecht, of espousing the so-called heresy of Jansenism. Although the Archbishop was eventually proved innocent of heresy, Pope Innocent XII tried to appease the Jesuits by suspending and deposing him in AD 1705. No mention was made of any reason for the deposition. Even a Papal canonist, Hyacinth de Archangelis, issued a formal opinion that a Vicar-Apostolic with the rights of an Ordinary (as + Codde undoubtedly was) could not be arbitrarily deposed. Two Dutch Catholic Chapters (Utrecht and Haarlem) naturally decided not to recognize this irregular, if not illegal, act. The battle was over local autonomy in a collegial Church versus Papal supremacy. When the Papacy appointed + Theodore de Cock as Pro-Vicar-Apostolic of The United Provinces, in the place of Archbishop Peter Codde (deposed), the Chapters of Utrecht and Haarlem further decided not to recognize his authority on the ground that The Patriarch of Rome had no canonical authority to deprive even a Vicar-Apostolic, much less an Archbishop, without trial and condemnation. At the same time the Calvinist government decided that it would prefer a Catholic Church controlled by Dutch Catholics to a Catholic Church controlled by Rome. The government, therefore, issued a decree forbidding + de Cock to exercise any jurisdiction over Roman Catholics in Holland. Later, after accusing the Dutch government of being bribed by the secular clergy loyal to The Archbishop (+ Codde), + de Cock was banished from Holland and fled to Rome. Rome countered by placing the Dutch Church under an Inhibition, prohibiting all Bishops from performing any episcopal acts in Holland. At this point the battle between Utrecht and Rome was not doctrinal, but the results of Jesuit intrigue and their desire to firmly establish the Papacy as an absolute monarchy. Had Archbishop Codde continued to exercise his authority as The Archbishop of Utrecht, while appealing his uncanonical suspension as Vicar-Apostolic (as Vicar-Apostolic he had diocesan jurisdiction wherever there was no Bishop or Chapter; metropolitan jurisdiction in the other dioceses), the course of Church history may well have seen the defeat of the Jesuit sponsored Ultramontane movement. Unfortunately, + Codde not only protested his suspension but also retired from the exercise of his office. His jurisdiction thus reverted to the Chapters and his people were left without episcopal protection and governance. It was the position of the Chapter of Utrecht that: Both the Province and Diocese of Utrecht, with all their ancient and canonical rights and privileges, still existed. (The Chapter of Utrecht was formally recognized on many occasions by Papal Nuncios even after this date.)

The Vicariate instituted by Archbishop Philip Rovenius on 9 June 1633 was the canonical reconstitution of the ancient Chapter of Utrecht and possessed all the rights of the Chapter, including the right to elect the Archbishop of Utrecht. (All nominations made hereafter by this Chapter were, in fact, accepted by Rome, including that of Archbishop Codde.) Later archbishops, from + Vosmeer to + Codde, were not only Vicars-Apostolic of the Roman See, but also Archbishops of Utrecht, the true canonical successors of St. Willibrord. On 25 May 1717, five doctors of the theological faculty of the University of Louvain publicly sided with the Archiepiscopal See of Utrecht by stating that the Church of Utrecht had not been reduced to the status of a mere mission, that the Chapter of Utrecht had survived, and that the Vicariate established by + Rovenius was the ancient Chapter of Utrecht. Later, 102 doctors of theology at the University of Paris, together with the whole law faculty, publicly agreed with the doctors of Louvain. As a result of the support of the theology faculties of two French universities, three French Bishops (Soanen of Senez, Lorraine of Bayeux, and Caumartin of Blois) declared that they were ready to ordain priests for the Chapter of Utrecht, and actually did so. Upon the death, in AD 1710, of + Peter Codde, the deposed Archbishop of Utrecht, the Cathedral Chapter (exercising its historically recognized right) elected a successor. No Bishop, however, could be found who would ignore the Pope's Inhibition by consecrating the Archbishop-elect. The Church of Holland continued to send Her candidates for the priesthood out of the country for ordination by foreign Bishops; Her children, without a diocesan Ordinary, were left unconfirmed. At this point the Jesuits and Rome sought and anxiously anticipated the total capitulation of the autocephalous Dutch Church. A turning point in the Dutch Church's struggle with Rome came in AD 1719 when + Dominique Maria Varlet, former missionary priest in The Louisiana Territory in North America, stopped in Amsterdam for a few days on his way to his new post in Persia. A local Dutch priest, Father Jacob Krys, begged the new Bishop to confirm 604 orphans and other poor children as an act of charity, which he did. He then continued his journey to Persia, arriving at his residence at Schamake (now Shemakh near Baku in the Republic of Azerbaijan) on October 9th, 1719. On March 26th, 1720, the Bishop of Babylon was presented with a formal Notice of Suspension from his office, sent by the Bishop of Ispahan by order of the Congregation de Propaganda Fide, and delivered by a Jesuit priest (Fr. Bachou) because of the confirmations in Amsterdam. Like the late Archbishop Codde, Bishop Varlet elected not to remain in office while fighting the Papal action. After careful consideration and prayer, the good Bishop immediately left Persia and returned to Amsterdam, where he settled permanently. The Chapter of Utrecht had meanwhile repeatedly attempted to get the Pope to allow the election and consecration of an archbishop; Pope Innocent XIII ignored their petitions. The Chapter next turned to the leading canon lawyers of the day. They were told that the Chapter had the canonical right to elect their archbishop and get him consecrated without the consent of the Pope (recent precedents in both France and Portugal supported this position). Nineteen doctors of the theological faculty of the Sorbonne (University of Paris), and others from Nantes, Rheims, Padua, and Louvain, gave their agreement to this position, as well as assuring the Chapter that in the case of necessity one bishop alone might preside at the consecration. With the approval of the government, the Chapter met at The Hague on April 27th, 1723 and, after a Mass of The Holy Spirit, elected, with all the canonical forms, Cornelius Steenoven to be Archbishop of Utrecht. Although Fr. Steenoven was elected as the candidate likely to be the least objectionable to Rome, the Pope refused to answer the Chapter's request to permit his consecration. The Chapter finally begged the Bishop of Babylon to consecrate their candidate. He consented. The government also consented to this the first consecration of an Archbishop of Utrecht since the Reformation. Thus at 6:00am on Pentecost, October 15th, 1724, Cornelius van Steenoven was consecrated in the presence of the whole Chapter by the Bishop of Babylon in Amsterdam to be the seventh Archbishop of Utrecht and canonical successor of St. Willibrord. The Bishop of Babylon was called upon by The Chapter to consecrate four archbishops for the See of Utrecht before his death on May 14th, 1742 at The Hague

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Cardinal Antonio Barberini, nephew of Pope Urban VIII, was consecrated in AD 1655 (by the order of Pope Alexander VII) by Monsignore Scannarola (Bishop of Sidonia), assisted by Monsignore Botini (Domestic Prelate of the Pope), and Monsignore Laurenzio Gavotti (Bishop of Ventimiglia), as Bishop of Frascati. In AD 1657 Bishop Barberini became Archbishop of Rheims; in AD 1661 he became Bishop of Palestrina. Cardinal Barberini consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1668

 

Bishop Charles Maurice Le Tellier, Duke, son of the Grand Chancellor of France, as Co-Adjutor Bishop. Archbishop Le Tellier consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1670

 

Bishop James Benigne Bossuet Bishop Bossuet consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1673

 

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:

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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:

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Bishop Hermann Heykamp as seventh Bishop of Deventer on 17 July 1853. Bishop Heykamp consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:

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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:

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Archbishop Gerard Gul (Old Catholic Church of Utrecht), assisted by Bishop Johannes Jacobus van Thiel and Bishop Nicholas Bartholomaeus Petrus Spit (both with The Old Catholic Church of Utrecht) and Bishop Josef Demmel (Old Catholic Church in Germany), consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:

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Archbishop Arnold Harris Mathew on 28 April 1908 as Archbishop of London and Primate of the Old Roman Catholic Church in England. Archbishop Mathew consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:

 

Bishop Rudolf Franziskus Eduard de Landas Berghes et de Rache on 29 June 1913 as Missionary Bishop for Scotland. In 1916 Prince de Landas Berghes became Archbishop-Primate of The National Catholic Church in North America. Archbishop de Landas Berghes et de Rache consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate:

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Archbishop Carmel Henry Carfora, Archbishop and Primate of the North American Old Roman Catholic Church in the Chapel of St. Dunstan's Abbey in Waukegan who Consecrated on July 30, 1942

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Bishop Hubert Augustas Rogers, who

Consecrated on July 1, 1961

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Archbishop Robert Schuyler Zeiger, who

Consecrated on June 21, 1964

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Archbishop Christopher Maria Carl John Stanley, who Consecrated on January 10, 1965

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Archbishop Mar Markus I, Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Church, who Consecrated on September 30, 1984

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Metropolitan Archbishop William Francis Patrick Malloy, Jr., also known as Patrick Francis Mary, OMC, who Consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate on June 10, 2012

 

Archbishop Charles Ray Hill, Sr., Ph.D., D.D. as Archbishop in The Holy Catholic Church International and Presiding Prelate of Ambassadors for Christ Ministries of America, who with  Co-consecrators Archbishop Frank Bobo, IV and Archbishop Arthur Smith consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate on June 20, 2014

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Archbishop Trevor 'ELIHU' Greene, J.C.D., D.D. as Metropolitan Archbishop of New York and All-USA. He later became Metropolitan-Archbishop of Port of Spain, Patriarch and Primate of All The Caribbean for The United Holy Caribbean Apostolic Church

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