Apostolic Succession
1541-2018
Succession from the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church.
CARDINAL REBIBA, Scipione +
Titular Bishop of Amicle and Auxiliary of Chieti. Elected titular bishop of Amicle and auxiliary of Cardinal Giovanni Pietro Carafa, archbishop of Chieti, March 16, 1541. CARDINAL SANTORO, Giulio Antonio + Archbishop of Santa Severina. Consecrated on March 12, 1566 in the Pauline Chapel of the Vatican Apostolic Palace by Cardinal Scipione Rebiba, Titular Patriarch of Constantinople, assisted by Annibale Caracciolo, Bishop of Isola and Giocomo de' Giacomomelli, Bishop Emeritus of Belcastro.
CARDINAL BERNERIO, O.P., Girolamo +
Bishop of Ascoli Piceno. Consecrated on September 7, 1586 in the Basilica of the Twelve Holy Apostles, Rome, by Cardinal Giulio Antonio Santoro, assisted by Cardinal Ottaviano Paravicini, bishop of Alessandria, and Giulio Masetti, bishop of Reggio Emilia.
SANVITALE, Galeazzo +
Archbishop of Bari. Consecrated on April 4, 1604 in the chapel of the Apostolic Sacristy, in Rome, by Cardinal Girolamo Bernerio, O.P., bishop of Albano, assisted by Claudio Rangoni, bishop of Piacenza and Giovanni Ambrogio Caccia, bishop of Castro di Toscana.
CARDINAL LUDOVISI, Ludovico +
Cardinal Archbishop of Bologna. Consecrated on May 2, 1621 in the private chapel of its consecrator, near St. Peter's Basilica, in Rome, by Galeazzo Sanvitale, Archbishop Emeritus of Bari and Prefect of the Apostolic Palace, assisted by Cosmo de Torres, Titular Archbishop of Hadrianopolis and Ottavio Rudolfi, Bishop of Ariano.
CARDINAL CAETANI, Luigi +
Titular Patriarch of Antioch. Consecrated on June 12, 1622 in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, by Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi, Archbishop of Bologna, assisted by Galeazzo Sanvitale, Archbishop Emeritus of Bari and Vulpiano Volpi, Archbishop Emeritus of Chieti.
SCANNAROLO, Giovanni Battista +
Titular Bishop of Sidon. Consecrated on October 7, 1630, in Rome, in the Pauline Chapel of the Quirinal, Cardinal Luigi Caetani.
CARDINAL BARBERINI, Antonio +
Cardinal Bishop of Frascati. Consecrated on October 24, 1655 in Rome, in the Church of the Jesuit Novitiate, by Archbishop Giovanni Battista Scannarolo, Titular Bishop of Sidon.
LE TELLIER, Charles-Maurice +
Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus and Coadjutor Archbishop of Reims. Consecrated on November 11, 1668 in Paris, in the Church of the Sorbonne, by Cardinal Antonio Barberini and the archbishop of Reims.
BOSSUET, Jacques-Bénigne +
Bishop of Condom, later Bishop of Meaux. Consecrated on September 21, 1670 in Pontoise, Church of the Cordeliers, by Charles - Maurice Le Tellier, Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus and Coadjutor Archbishop of Reims.
GOYON de MATIGNON, Jacques +
Bishop of Condom. Consecrated on April 16, 1673 in Paris, Carthusian Church, by Jacques - Bénigne Bossuet, bishop emeritus of Condom.
Succession from the Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands.
VARLET, Dominique Marie +
Bishop of Ascalon (in partibus infidelium). Consecrated on February 10, 1719 in Paris, in the lower chapel of the Seminary of the Missions of Étrangères, by Jacques Goyon de Matignon, bishop emeritus of Condom, assisted by Louis - François Duplessis de Mornay, coadjutor bishop of Quebec and Jean-Baptiste Matillon, Bishop of Clermont.
MEINDAARTS, Petrus Johannes +
Consecrated by Bishop Dominique Marie Varlet, October 17, 1739 as Archbishop of Utrecht.
VAN STIPHOUT, Johannes +
Consecrated by Bishop Petrus Johannes Meindaarts, Archbishop of Utrecht, on July 11, 1745 as Bishop of Haarlem.
VAN NIEUWENHUIZEN, Gualterus Michael +
Consecrated by Bishop Johannes van Stiphout, Bishop of Haarlem, on February 7, 1768, as Archbishop of Utrecht.
BROEKMAN, Adrianus Johannes +
Consecrated by Bishop Gualterus Michael van Nieuwenhuizen, Archbishop of Utrecht, on June 21, 1778, as Bishop of Haarlem.
VAN RHIJN, Johannes Jacobus +
Consecrated by Bishop Adrianus Broekman, Bishop of Haarlem, on July 5, 1797, as Archbishop of Utrecht.
DE JONG, Gijsbertus Cornelius +
Consecrated by Bishop John James of Rhijn, November 7, 1805, as Bishop of Deventer.
VAN OS, Willibrordus +
Consecrated by Bishop Gijsbertus de Jong, Bishop of Deventer, on April 24, 1814, as Archbishop of Utrecht.
BON, Johannes +
Consecrated by Bishop Willibrordus Van Os, Archbishop of Utrecht, April 12, 1819, as Bishop of Haarlem.
VAN SANTEN, Johannes +
Consecrated by Bishop Johannes Bon, Bishop of Haarlem, on November 13, 1825, as Archbishop of Utrecht.
HEIJKAMP, Hermanus Johannes +
Consecrated by Bishop Johannes van Santen, Archbishop of Utrecht on May 11, 1853, as Bishop of Deventer. Appointed Archbishop of Utrecht in 1875.
RINKEL, Casparus Johannes +
Consecrated by Bishop Hermanus Heijkamp, Bishop of Deventer in 1873, as Bishop of Haarlem.
GUL, Gerardus +
Consecrated by Bishop Casparus Rinkel, Bishop of Haarlem in 1892 as Archbishop of Utrecht (Old Catholic Church).
MATHEW, Arnold Harris +
Born August 6, 1852. Consecrated by Archbishop Gerardus Gul, assisted by Bishops Van Thiel, Spit, and Demmel, at Utrecht, Netherlands, April 28, 1908. as Old Catholic Bishop of Great Britain and Ireland. He broke off relations with the See of Utrecht in December 1910. He was placed under Roman obedience on 31 December 1915. He died on 19 December 1919.
WILLOUGHBY, Frederick Samuel +
Born on 17 December 1862. Consecrated by the Archbishop Arnold Harris Mathew at Bromley, England, on 28 October 1914, as a Suffragan Bishop of the Old Catholic Church of Great Britain. Before offering his submission to the Roman Catholic Church, he consecrated the following bishop:
Succession from the Liberal Catholic Church.
WEDGWOOD, James Ingall +
Born May 24, 1883. Consecrated by Bishop Frederick S. Willoughby, assisted by Bishops Rupert Gauntlett and Robert King in London, England, February 13, 1916, as regional bishop of the Old Catholic Church of Great Britain and Ireland and the British Empire. First Presiding Bishop of the Liberal Catholic Church until his resignation April 2, 1923. Appointed commissioner of bishops for parts of Europe in 1926. Died March 12, 1951.
COOPER, Irving Steiger +
Born March 16, 1882. Consecrated by Bishop James Wedgwood, assisted by Bishops Charles Leadbeater and Julian Mazel in Sydney, Australia, July 13, 1919, as regional bishop of the United States of America. He died on January 17, 1935.
HAMPTON, Charles +
Born on February 23, 1886. Consecrated by Bishop Irving Cooper, assisted by Bishops George Arundale and Ray Wardall, in Los Angeles, USA, on September 13, 1931, as auxiliary bishop of the United States of America. Appointed as regional bishop of the United States of America in 1935. He was dismissed from the Church in 1945. He died on April 7, 1958.
EKLUND, John Theodore +
Born on November 9, 1875. Consecrated by Bishop Charles Hampton, assisted by Bishops Ray Wardall and Buenaventura Jiménez, in Los Angeles, USA, on July 2, 1939, as auxiliary bishop of the United States of America. Appointed regional bishop of the United States of America in 1943. Died on 13 October 1948.
DAHL, Newton Arnold +
Born on 20 January 1894. Consecrated by Bishop John Eklund, assisted by Bishops Buenaventura Jiménez and Ernest Jackson in Minneapolis, USA, on 8 June 1947, as auxiliary bishop of the United States of America. Appointed regional bishop of the United States of America in 1949; He retired as such in April 1971. He died on 14 November 1977.
MUNNIK, Gerrit +
Born on 10 February 1906. Consecrated by Bishop Newton Dahl, assisted by Bishops Walter Zollinger, William Pitkin and Sten von Krusenstierna, at the Church of Our Lady and All Angels in Ojai, USA, on 20 March 1971, as auxiliary bishop of the United States of America. Appointed regional bishop of the United States of America, March 22, 1974. Appointed bishop Commissary for the Diocese of Brazil on December 6, 1981, re-elected as such until February 10, 1985. Re-elected as regional bishop of the United States of America until February 10, 1983, re-elected as such until February 10, 1985. Retired as Regional Bishop of the United States of America and as Bishop Commissary of Brazil on February 10, 1985. Appointed Episcopal Vicar General for the Americas in 1984. Died August 12, 1992.
BATET, Miguel Angel
Born August 6, 1947. Consecrated by Bishop Gerrit Munnik, assisted by Bishop Ernesto Fanlo, in Rosario, Argentina, August 19, 1983. 1984, as auxiliary bishop for Argentina. Appointed regional bishop of Argentina in 1994. Re-elected as such in July 2001. Re-elected as such on 17 October 2008. Appointed bishop commissioner for Spain and Brazil in July 2000. Retired as bishop commissioner for Spain in February 2007. Re-elected bishop commissioner for Brazil on 18 March 2008. Appointed bishop commissioner for Uruguay on 15 November 2011. Appointed Archbishop of the Province of Argentina and Uruguay, effective 4 February 2016.
Father Ivan Jesus Muzzio (Johnny)
MUZZIO, Iván Jesús
Born on July 4, 1979. He was ordained by Bishop Miguel Angel Batet, assisted by Fathers Enrique Scarafoni, Gastón Cicao, Julio Rico, Daniel Rodriguez, Enrique Giunta, Adrián Pizarro and Fernando Samul, in the San Francisco Cathedral of the Liberal Catholic Church in the town of Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina, on July 1, 2018.
