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Historic documents and photographs relating to the Independent Sacramental Movement

 
The Center is grateful to the copyright owners of the following photographs for permission to reproduce them as part of the Center's scholarly work. Together they form a unique online archive of the Independent Sacramental Movement from its earliest days onwards.

In the event that a copyright owner wishes to discuss the use of any particular image here, they are welcome to contact the Center using the contact form. We also welcome contact from others who wish to donate images for display.

You should note as you review these images that they represent not a single entity but a highly complex movement in which are many distinct communities, in some cases united by no more than a common Apostolic Succession and strongly divided on theological and doctrinal matters. Inclusion of an image implies no relationship of those concerned to any other group, nor necessarily their endorsement of the concept of an overarching Independent Sacramental Movement or of the work of this Center.

+Arnold Harris Mathew

+Gerardus Gul of the Old Catholic Church in Holland, consecrator of +Mathew Consecration of +Mathew by +Gul and others
Instrument of Consecration of +Mathew +Arnold Harris Mathew, first Old Catholic Archbishop in England
+Metropolitan Messara with +Mathew at the signing of their concordat
 +Bernard Mary Williams, successor to +Mathew in the Old Roman Catholic Church of Great Britain
+Prince Rudolph de Landes Berghes et de Rache, +Mathew's emissary to the United States +Frederick Samuel Willoughby

+Joseph René Vilatte

Joseph René Vilatte with Orthodox prelates following his consecration in 1892. Left to right: +Vilatte, Mar Ivanios Paulos (later Catholicos Baselius Paulos I), Mar Dionysius Joseph, Mar Athanasius Paulos, Mar Gregorios Gewargis, Mar Julius Alvares +Mar Athanasius Paulos, one of the consecrators of +Vilatte
Coat of arms of +Vilatte Translation of the bull of +Ignatius Peter III for the consecration of +Vilatte
Joseph René Vilatte Vilatte in 1892
+Vilatte in his last years +Paolo Miraglia Gulotti, founder of the Italian National Episcopal Church
+Frederick J. Lloyd, successor to +Vilatte +Stefan Kaminski
+Victor de Kubinyi, founder of the Hungarian National Church +George McGuire, founder of the African Orthodox Church
+Louis Marie François Giraud +Carmel Henry Carfora, co-founder of the North American Old Roman Catholic Church
+William Montgomery Brown, the noted Communist, author and lecturer to the working classes

French and German esotericists of the nineteenth-century

+Jules Doinel du Val Michel +Jules Houssaye
+Emmanuel Fabre des Essarts +Theodor Reuss
+Joany Bricaud
+Gerard Encausse (Papus)


Diverse nineteenth and early twentieth-century movements
The Apostles of the Catholic Apostolic Church: Henry Drummond, John Tudor, Henry King-Church, Henry Dalton, Francis Sitwell, William Dow, Thomas Carlyle, Francis Woodhouse (at back), John Cardale (in front), Spencer Perceval, and Nicholas Armstrong. The founders of the Free Protestant Episcopal Church in 1897: +Leon Checkemian, +James Martin and +Andrew MacLaglen
+Metropolitan Teofan "Fan" Noli of the Albanian Orthodox Church
+Antoine Joseph Aneed, Exarch of the Greek Melkite Rite in the United States +Aftimios Ofiesh of the Orthodox Catholic Church of America
+Frantisek Hodur, First Prime Bishop, Polish National Catholic Church +Bishop Dezderia of the Polish Mariavite Church

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