FOUNDERS OF OUR CHURCH IN 1897
The Free Protestant Episcopal Church
+Leon Checkemian +James Martin
+Andrew C.A. MacLaglen
This church was established in England on 2 November 1897 by a union of
several small British episcopates established in the 1870s in
reaction to the rising Anglo-Catholicism of the Church of England.
The Most Rev'd Leon Checkemian (1848 to 1920), an Armenian Uniate
bishop had moved to Britain and became an protestant Anglican and served as
the first primate of the new Church.
Apostolic Succession in The Free
Protestant Episcopal Church
This Church holds valid Apostolic Succession derived from the Armenian
Catholic Church, the Syrian Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Church of England (through the Reformed Episcopal Church of the United States of America). These lines were in the jurisdictions that united in 1897 to found the Free Protestant Episcopal Church.
The Anglican Succession is as follows. The Most Rev'd and the Rt. Honble Dr.John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury consecrated in 1787 William White as the PECUSA bishop of Pennsylvania. He in turn consecrated in 1832 John Henry Hopkins the PECUSA bishop of Vermont. Bishop Hopkins consecrated in 1866
George David Cummins the PECUSA assistant bishop of Kentucky.
In 1873 Bishop Cummins founded the Reformed Episcopal Church. The Succession follows from
him thus: 1873, Charles Edward Cheney, REC USA; 1876, William Rufus
Nicholson, REC USA; 1879, Alfred Spencer Richardson, REC USA.
Bishop Richardson later moved to Britain where he was involved in the work of the
Free Church of England. On 4 May 1890 he assisted in the sub conditione
consecration of Bishop Leon Checkemian, D.D.,LL.D. Protestant Church of England
From Bishop Checkemian, D.D.,LL.D.the Succession continues thus:
1897, Charles Isaac Stevens, D.D.,LL.D. Ancient British Church
1897, James Martin,D.D.,LL.D. The Nazerine Movement, 1873
1897, Andrew Charles Albert McLaglen,D.D.,LL.D FPEC Britain;
1922, Herbert James Monzani Heard,D.D.,LL.D. FPEC Britain;
1939, William Hall,D.D. FPEC Britain;
1952, Charles Dennis Boltwood,D.D.,Ph.D,LL.D. FPEC Britain;
1958, Emmanuel Samuel Yekorogha,Ph.D,D.D.,LL.D. FPEC Africa,
1966, Albert J. Fuge, Sr.,D.D. FPEC USA;
1971, Robert R. Rivette,D.D. FPEC USA;
1971, Horst-Karl-Friedrich Block,Ph.D.,AE.D.,Titular Bishop,London, FPEC Britain;
1972, Horst-Karl-Friedrich Block,D.D.,Ph.D.,LL.D.,Diocesan Bishop,Monrovia/Liberia, FPEC Africa
1980 Bishop Primus of THE INTERNATIONAL FREE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH®
26th November 2005 Rev. Peter Leers has been consecrated in Düsseldorf, Germany a Bishop in TIFPEC for the Congregation of St. Benedict.
