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Arnold Harris Mathew Center for the Study of the Independent Sacramental Movement
The Old Roman Catholic Church of Great Britain
Founded: Various different names were used by Archbishop Arnold Harris Mathew
for the churches he founded in Britain after his consecration by the
Old Catholics of Utrecht in 1908. More detail on these matters is given
in the resources below.
Character: Generally conservative; Roman in polity; initially some liberal elements.
Locations: Principally London, England. This was always a small movement and at one point was near extinction.
Present status: Various successors exist, most of whom do not recognise each other. In North America, this movement has achieved some size and coherence, unlike the position in Britain.
Although the churches established by +Mathew have little in common theologically with much of the independent sacramental movement, being essentially proto-Uniate Rites of Rome, they are of historic importance in that most ISM communities can trace their heritage back to +Mathew and his work. More detailed treatment of the successors to +Mathew in the various (post-1951) claimants to be the ORCCGB is outside the scope of the Center at present.
Resources:
>>Arnold Harris Mathew and the Utrecht Succession
>>Mathew-Willoughby timeline by Fr. Gregory Tillett
>>Addendum to the Mathew-Willoughby timeline by S. David Sandercock
Character: Generally conservative; Roman in polity; initially some liberal elements.
Locations: Principally London, England. This was always a small movement and at one point was near extinction.
Present status: Various successors exist, most of whom do not recognise each other. In North America, this movement has achieved some size and coherence, unlike the position in Britain.
Although the churches established by +Mathew have little in common theologically with much of the independent sacramental movement, being essentially proto-Uniate Rites of Rome, they are of historic importance in that most ISM communities can trace their heritage back to +Mathew and his work. More detailed treatment of the successors to +Mathew in the various (post-1951) claimants to be the ORCCGB is outside the scope of the Center at present.
Resources:
>>Arnold Harris Mathew and the Utrecht Succession
>>Mathew-Willoughby timeline by Fr. Gregory Tillett
>>Addendum to the Mathew-Willoughby timeline by S. David Sandercock
