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Other Essential Lines of Succession – Applicable to the Sword-Bishop

Other Essential Lines of Succession
Applicable to the Sword-Bishop

Greek, Syrian-Melchite and Roman Catholic Line
Lee-succession: the three Anglican priests F. G. Lee and R. Thomas
Mossmann and R. J. Seccombe conditionally (sub conditione) received
Baptism and Confirmation, were ordained priests and consecrated
bishops in Vienna. The consecrators were a Greek, a Syrian-Melchite
and a Roman Catholic bishop. Lee was admitted into the Catholic
Church in the year 1901 by his friend R. P. Best of the Oratory. Likewise
Mossmann in the year 1885 by his friend Cardinal Manning.

Syrian-Antiochian Line

Ferrete-succession: Mgr Julius, Raymond Ferrete OP (Order of
Preachers), priestly ordination in Rome in San Giovanni in Lateran by
Cardinal Patrizi. He left the Catholic Church by being consecrated
bishop by the Syrian-Antiochian Patriarch Ignatius Peter III.

Chaldean-Uniate Line

Brooks-succession: Arthur Wolfort Brooks of the American Protestant
Episcopal Church. Consecrated by Mgr Antonius Lebferne in 1925,
who was in turn consecrated by the Chaldean-Uniate Patriarch Thomas
Josef-Emanuel II in the year 1917.

Syro-Chaldean and Roman Catholic Line
Herford-succession: Ulrich Vernon Herford had himself elected bishop
by his (Free Church) community and was consecrated by Mgr Basilius
Marianus Suarez, Metropolitan of India, in India in 1902. In the year
1905, he receives a consecration by Count Benedeto Donkin in
London.

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