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Line of Succession

ROMAN CATHOLIC

OLD CATHOLIC

LIBERAL CATHOLIC

SYRIAN-ANTIOCHENE

SYRIAN-MALABAR

SYRIAN-GALLICAN

GREEK MELCHITE (BYZANTINE)

AMERICAN GREEK MELCHITE

ORTHODOX CHURCHES UNDER THE PATRIARCHATE OF CONSTANTINOPLE (GREEK, RUSSIAN₁ RUSSIAN-SYRIAN)

Apostolic Tradition

Peter and Paul

18th-Century Reform

20th-Century (latthews)

Jewish-Christian; Nestorian; Monophysite and Jacobite

Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew 20th-Century (Vilatte)

Roman-Hellenistic; Anti-Monophysite 20th-Century (Sawoya -An eed)

Thomas, Simon, Jude, Bartholomew,

James the Lesser, Matthias, Andrew

SYRO-CHALDAEAN

Jewish-Christian; Antiochene

C~lALDAEAN UNIATE

Roman-Hel lenistic

ARMENIAN; ARMENIAN UNIATE ANGLICAN

NON-JURING BISHOPS

IRISH

WEtSH

ORDER OF CORPORATE REUNION

Jewish-Christian; St. Basil

Pauline -Reformed

17th-Century (England)

17th-Century (St. Patrick) Anglican

Anglican and Orthodox (Ecumenical)

MARIAVITE Old Catholic, 20th-Century (Polish)

COPTIC Philip, Simon; Jewish; St. Mark; Mono

physite and Jacobite

COPTIC UNIATE 18th-Century (Jerusalem)

The lines of Succession can be further analyzed into even more categories because of the activities of episcopi vagantes in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries anU the migration of orthodox ethnic churches to the United States. The point of the listing is to show ways in which valid episcopacies have been transmitted into modern times, and to demonstrate that they include traditions rooted in the teachings of all the original apostles rather than simply the truncated western version dominated by RQman catholicism.

All of the above episcopal successions, with the exception of the Anglican, have been officially IIrecogni~~~iI as valid by the Roiiian Catholic hierarchy. Most scholars agree that Anglican orders. are equally valid, however.

The complete repertoire of every extant episcopal line of succession was transmitted to Dr. Keizer in 1975 by Archbishop Spruit of the (New) Church of Antioch, who had received them from Bishop Wadle. By the year 1956 Mar Georgius and Mar Joannes of England, in their attempt at corporate reunion, ~ad achieved a synthesis of sixteen lines. Wadle met with their successor Bishop Maxey in 1957 to exchange sub conditione consecrations which would complete the repertoire for him (A~ierican~and Maxey (English). Shortly after this he confered the completed repertoire upon