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Arnold Harris Mathew Center for the Study of the Independent Sacramental Movement
Historic documents and photographs relating to Liberal Catholicism
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 Liberal
Catholic 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.
The early period
The consecration of +James Ingall Wedgwood, first Presiding Bishop of the Liberal Catholic Church, at London's Co-Masonic Temple, 13 February 1916.
Left to right (seated): +Robert King, +J.I. Wedgwood, +Frederick Samuel Willoughby, +Rupert Gauntlett, Dean Seaton. (standing): +José B. Acuña, Reginald Farrer, three Servers (unknown), Theodore Bell, Priest (unknown).
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| The coat of arms of +James Ingall Wedgwood. The motto should read "Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re" (Gentle in manner, resolute in execution) | +James Ingall Wedgwood |
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| +Charles Webster Leadbeater | The completed Eucharistic Edifice, cf. "The Science of the Sacraments" (+C.W.L.) etc. |
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| Dedication by +Wedgwood in the frontispiece of "A History of the Theosophical Society" | +Charles W. Leadbeater in later years |
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| +Wedgwood's chalice | +Wedgwood's chalice on the Lutyens altar at the LCC Pro-Cathedral, Putney, London, UK |
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| +Wedgwood in later years at the Church of St Francis of Assisi, Tekels Park, Camberley | A Christmas card from +C.W. Leadbeater - this one sent in 1936, two years after his passing to spirit |
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| LCC Presiding Bishop +Frank Waters Pigott | The LCC General Synod at High Legh, 1949. Left to right: back row: Ted Shepherd+, unknown, Harry Farrow+, Dr. Eric Taylor+, front row: Alban Cockerham+, Hockmeyer+, Marsh+, Presiding Bishop Frank W. Pigott, Nevin Drinkwater+, Sir Hugh Sykes, Bt.+ |
Later years
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| +Wedgwood's crozier - with the arms of LCC Presiding Bishop +Eric Taylor | Interior of St Mary's |
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| LCC General Episcopal Synod 2000, at All Saints Pastoral Centre, London Colney | Liberal Catholic Diocese of Niagara (Liberal Catholic Church of Ontario), 1986 |
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| Consecration of +Alistair Bate and +Charles Mugleston of the Independent Liberal Catholic Fellowship, 15 August 2007. | |
