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The Apostolic Succession of the ArchConfraternity of Our Lady of Victories. Bishops and clergy are pre-Vatican II Roman Catholic via Bishop Carlos Duarte Costa who historically traces his lineage back to Roman Catholic Bishops as illustrated below.
Archbishop Carlos Duarte Costa, ordained a priest within The Roman Catholic Church on 1 April 1911, was consecrated to be the Roman Catholic Diocesan Bishop of Botucatu, Brazil, on 8 December 1924. His public statements on the treatment of the poor in Brazil (by both the civil government and the Roman Church) resulted in his removal as Diocesan Bishop of Botucatu. Bishop Duarte Costa was subsequently named Titular Bishop of Maura by Pope Pius XII (Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, Vatican Secretary of State until 1939 under Pope Pius XI).
Archbishop Duarte Costa's criticisms of the Vatican, particularly the policy toward Nazi Germany, were not well received. He was formerly separated from the Roman Catholic Church on 6 July 1945 after his strong and repeated public denunciations of the Vatican Secretariat of State for granting Vatican Passports to some very high ranking Nazis.
Some of the most notorious Nazi war criminals (e.g., Adolf Eichmann and Dr. Josef Mengele, the "Angel of Death,") escaped trial after World War II using Vatican Passports to flee to South America. The government of Brazil also came under the Bishop's criticism for collaborating with the Vatican on these passports.
Bishop Duarte Costa founded the autonomous Igreja Catolica Apostolica Brasileira (ICAB) immediately upon his separation from The Church of Rome (6 July 1945) and remained Primate of this jurisdiction until his death in 1961.
Archbishop Luis Castillo Mendez was consecrated by Archbishop Duarte Costa on 3 May 1948. He succeed Abp. Duarte Costa as Primate and Patriarch of the National Catholic Apostolic Churches (Igreja Catolica Apostolica Nationales) in 1961.
In addition to the autonomous Igreja Catolica Apostolica Brasileira (ICAB), there are sister jurisdictions in thirteen other countries in the Western Hemisphere, Europe, the Pacific and in Asia, including: Argentina (ICAA), Chile, Venezuela, Cuba, Mexico, Spain, Germany, France, Portugal, Australia, the Philippines, Canada and the United States of America, with over 12 million members.
It may be of interest to consider Bishop Salomao Ferraz. He was a Roman Catholic priest who left that jurisdiction to join the new autocephalous Brazilian Church. He was consecrated to the office of bishop by Archbishop Carlos Duarte Costa for the Igreja Catolica Apostolica Brasileira (ICAB) in 1945. In 1958 he was reconciled with the Church of Rome (during the pontificate of Pope Pius XII). The Vatican appointed him Titular Bishop of Eleuterna on 12 May 1963. Although married, Bishop Ferraz was later appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Rio de Janeiro by Pope John XXIII. Pope Paul VI appointed Bishop Ferraz to serve on a commission of the Second Vatican Council; he even addressed the Council Fathers.
This is mentioned only to point out that Bishop Ferraz was never re-consecrated by the Roman Catholic Church, not even conditionally (sub conditione)! He was also allowed to keep his wife while serving and functioning as a Bishop of The Roman Catholic Church! Later, he was buried with the full honors accorded a Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. The Vatican, by accepting Bishop Ferraz without any re-consecration, affirmed de jure and de facto the sacramental validity of the Apostolic Succession received via Abp. Duarte Costa.
Another Bishop who decided to join to Rome after his consecration was Orlanda Arce Moia of the NCAC in Chile. He was the 4th Bishop consecrated by Bishop Duarte Costa in November 1956 for ICAB, in the title of Bishop of Santiago of Chile, for the Chilean National Church. Bishop Moia left many years later from the National Apostolic Churches and was recieved by Pope John XXIII. Bishop Moia was never reconsecrated, not even sub-conditione and he was accepted has having valid Episcopal orders. Thereby affirmed both de jure and de facto that the consecration he received within the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church (ICAB) was valid. He was nominated by Vatican II as Auxiliary Bishop to the Cardinal-Archbishop of Madrid, Spain. Bishop Moia died some years later.
The Roman Catholic Apostolic Succession that led to Carlos Duarte-Costa & ultimately to Bishop Anthony Earl-Williams, and all Orders conferred within the ArchConfraterniry of Our Lady of Victories, is as follows: |
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Scipione Cardinal Rebiba
On March 12, 1566, consecrated:
Cardinal Santinio
Who on September 7, 1586, consecrated:
Cardinal Benninio
Who on April 4, 1604, consecrated:
Cardinal San Vitale
Who on May 7, 1621, consecrated:
Cardinal Gaetani
Who on October 7, 1630 consecrated:
Cardinal Carpegna
Who on May 2, 1666, consecrated:
Cardinal Altieri
Who on February 3, 1675, consecrated:
Cardinal Orsini (Pope as Benedict PP XIII 1724)
Who on July 16, 1723, consecrated:
Pope Benedictus XIV
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini) Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 19 March 1743:
Carlo della Torre Rezzoni
(Pope Clement XIII) assisted by Archbishop Scopio Borghese & Ignatius Reali Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 26 April 1767:
Cardinal Bernardinus Giraud
assisted by Archbishop Marcus Antonius Conti & Bishop Iosefus Maria Carafa Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 23 February 1777:
Cardinal Alexander Matthaeus
assisted by Bishop Geraldus Macioti & Bishop Franciscus Albertini Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 12 September 1819:
Cardinal Petrus Franciscus Galeffi
assisted by Abp. Ioanne Franciscus Falzacappa & Abp. Iosephus della Porta Rodiani Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 8 December 1822:
Cardinal Iacobus Philippus Fransoni
assisted by Patriarch Joseph Valerga of Jerusalem & Bishop Rudesindus Salvado Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 8 June 1851:
Cardinal Carolus Sacconi
assisted by Archbishop Salvator Nobili Vitelleschi and Archbishop Franciscus Xaverius Fridericus de Morode Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 30 June 1872:
Cardinal Eduard Howard
assisted by Archbishop Alessandro Sanminiatelli Zabarella & Bishop Giulio Lenti Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 8 December 1882:
Cardinal Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro
Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 26 October 1890:
Cardinal Joaquin Arcoverde de Albuquerque-Cavalcanti
Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 4 June 1911:
Archbishop Sebastiao Leme da Silveira Cintra
assisted by Dom Alberto Jose Goncalves & Dom Benedito Paulo Alves de Souza Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 8 December 1924:
Bishop Carlos Duarte Costa
Patriarch, Igreja Catolica Apostolica Brasileira (1945) Consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 3 May 1948:
Bishop Luis Fernando Castillo Mendez
Patriarch, Igreja Catolica Apostolica Brasileira (1961) at the Cathedral Church in Brasilia, assisted by Bishop Josivaldo and Bishop Olinto of the Diocese of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Conscrated to the Sacred Episcopate on 13th June 2006 (Abp. David Bell):
Archbishop David Bell (formally James Atkinson-Wake at the time of his Consecration)
assisted by The Most Reverend Martin Lee, Archbishop of Derby, and The Most Reverend Brian Dineley, Bishop of Strathclyde, upon Apostolic Mandate,Consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Derby, England, according to the Traditional Pontifical of the Roman Catholic Church, on Sunday 30th of August 2009:
Bishop Robert Charles McBride
Superior General of The Ecumenical Society of Saint Augustine of Canterbury, Bishop of Mercia and The Marches. Titular Bishop of Fotheringhay. Videos of the Consecration service available here. Who on Saturday 26th of September, 2009, upon Apostolic Mandate, assisted by the Archbishop of London, David Bell, Consecrated according to the Traditional Pontifical of the Holy Roman Church, at the Chapel of Our Lady of Walsingham, Kettering:
Bishop Anthony Earl-Williams
Bishop of St Pancras and Penrhys & Metropolitan Bishop of the ArchConfraternity of Our Lady of Victories. Titular Bishop of Slatinany. Who on Sunday 27th of September, assisted by Bishop Robert McBride, Superior General of The Ecumenical Society of St Augustine of Canterbury, at the Chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary, Wittering, Cambridgeshire, consectrated according to the Traditional Pontifical of the Holy Roman Church:
Bishop Francis Dunlavey
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