Below is the list showing our Bishop's Apostolic Succession:
From the See of the Apostle, Saint Mark the Evangelist to
Christopher II (1939–1966) Exarch of the United States, under the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria.
Nicholas J. Kedroff (1902-1944)
Joseph Klimovicz [Klymowycz] (1880-1961)
On October 15th, 1950, in Springfield, Massachusetts, BY ORDER OF THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH OF CONSTANTINOPLE, ATHENAGORAS, Peter Andrew Zhurawetzky was consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate by Metropolitan Joseph Klymowycz, Archbisihop Konstantin Jarsohevich and Metropolitan Nicholas Bohatyretz.
His Beatitude Peter Andrew Zhuravetzky, Oct. 15, 1950
Metropolitan Peter Andrew Zhurawetzky consecrated +Vladyslau (Ryzy-Ryski) on Sept. 20, 1965 , with Bishop Lawrence F. Pierre and Patriarch Walter Myron Propheta. (Note: +Propheta had been consecrated by Patriarch Joseph Klimowycz (Klimovich) and Archbishop Theodotus DeWitow/Devitov and Greek Orthodox Metropolitan Joachim Souris . Bishops Bill O'Neil, Christopher Cragg, and Leonard Hill have been reported as assisting at this consecration.
Patriarch Vladyslau Ryzy-Ryski on February 19, 1978, with Patriarch Peter Andrew Zhurawetzky consecrated +Emigidiusz J. Ryzy (the brother of +Vladyslau) as a Bishop for American World Partiarchates and the Ecumenical Orthodox Catholic Autocephalus Church of the USA.
His Beatitude Patriarch Yuri I (Emigidiusz Jerry Ryzy) consecrated +Michael James Kline in August, 2006, with Archbishop Peter Paul Brennan and Archbishop Francis Spataro and African Orthodox Bishop Mercurius, including Ethiopian Orthodox Bishop-Elect Lamed Burrison at Saint Lucy’s Old Roman Catholic Church in Brooklyn, New York.
Michael Kline enthroned as Prime Bishop of the Exorcist Order of Saint Michael.
Matthew Conan Kline enthroned as Bishop - Abbot of the Exorcist Order of Saint Michael in Brooklyn, NY April 2011.
APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION OF
THE ECUMENICAL CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF AMERICA To the Exorcist Order of Saint Michael
FROM THE
THE COPTIC (ETHIOPIAN) ORTHODOX CHURCH
Patriarch Joseph II to Michael J. Kline
Abba Yusab II (Joseph II) (1878-1956)
Archbishop of Girga (1942)
I.
Most Holy and Most Blessed Father, Pope Abba and Patriarch of the City of Alexandria and of all the Land of Egypt, of the City of God, Jerusalem, of the Pentapolis, of Libya, Nubia, Ethiopia and Africa and of all the places where St Mark preached (The Coptic Orthodox Church) (1946; Locum Tenens 1942-1944)
Abba Yusab II consecrated as Itchege (Patriarchal Vicar) 1951, 13 January
Gebre Giyorgis (Anba Basiliyos, 1901-1970)
Archbishop-Metropolitan, The Coptic Orthodox Church, The Archdiocese of Ethiopia (1951)
Patriarch-Catholicos, The Ethiopian Orthodox Church (1959)
II.
Azer Joseph Atta (Abba Kirillus/Kirollos VI, 1902-1971)
Consecrated by Abba Athanasios as the main consecrator 1959, 10 May
Pope of Alexandria and 116th Patriarch of the See of St Mark (The Coptic Orthodox Church) (1959)
Abba Kirollos VI consecrated and enthroned as the first Patriarch-Catholicos of The Ethiopian Orthodox Church, 1959, 28 June
Anba Basiliyos (Abuna Basiliyos, 1901-1970)
Assisted by Abuna Markos, Patriarch of Gojjam, and by Abuna Petros,
Metropolitan of Gondar , Abuna Basiliyos consecrated at Addis Ababa ,
Abuna Gabre Mikael Kristos, 1959, 12 July
LaVon Miguel Haithman [Leo Haithman] (Abba Gabre Mikael Kristos, 1927-1986)
Ordained priest, The North American Old Roman Catholic Church (1952)
Ordained priest, The Ethiopian Orthodox Church (1959)
Ordained Cosmos, The Ethiopian Orthodox Church (1962)
Metropolitan-Archbishop-Primate, The Ethiopian Orthodox Coptic Church of North & South America
Assisted by Gabre Kristos Jeremiah (David William Worley) and Marcos Kristos, The Ethiopian Orthodox Coptic Church of North & South America, and Archbishop Lennard Lares, The American Orthodox Catholic Church, Metropolitan-Archbishop Gabre Mikael Kristos consecrated 1982, 16 February
Philip Lewis (* 1950)
Ordained priest, Episcopal Orthodox Church (1972, April 4)
Metropolitan-Archbishop-Primate, The Ethiopian Orthodox Coptic Church of North & South America & Europe (1990)
Assisted by Archbishop-Primate Eugene Lynch, Bishops Bertram C. Clarke, Bancroft A. A. McCarthy, Kenneth R. Rainford, all of The Caribbean Episcopal Church of The British Isles , and Missionary Bishop George W. Boyer, Iglesia Filipina Independient of Great Britain , Archbishop Lewis consecrated 1990, 13 October
Nils Bertil Alexander Persson (* 1941)
Ordained priest, The Eastern Apostolic Episcopal Church (1969, February 2)
Ordained priest, Iglesia Filipina Independiente (1988, June 15)
Archbishop-Primate, The Apostolic Episcopal Church (1986)
Assisted by Archbishops Francis Spataro, of The Apostolic Episcopal Church and The Order of Corporate Reunion, and by Bishop Paget Mack of The Order of Corporate Reunion, and by Archbishop Bruce Simpson of the Holy Orthodox Catholic Church, and by Archbishop Willard Schultz , Primate of the Catholic Apostolic Church in America, and by Archbishop Joseph Grenier , Primate of the Celtic Christian Church, and by Archbishop Patrick Trujillo , Primate of the Old Catholic Archdiocese of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and by Archbishop Joseph Gouthro of The American Catholic Church, Archbishop Persson consecrated in the Lincoln Suite of the Midtown Hilton Hotel 2001, 21 October
Peter Paul Brennan (* 1941)
Ordained priest, Old Roman Catholic Church, 1972, May 20
Ordained priest, African Orthodox Church, 1974, June 29
Bishop, African Orthodox Church for the Brothers of St. Joseph , 1978 June 10
Prime Bishop, Ecumenical Catholic Diocese of America , 1984
Titular Archbishop of Jerpoint-Cashel for ECDA 2001, October 21
Universal Primate of the Order of Corporate Reunion , 2005, July 1
Archbishop Persson officially appointed Archbishop Brennan as his successor in the office of Universal Primate of the Order of Corporate Reunion on July 11, 2004 .
Archbishop Brennan became Universal Primate on July 1, 2005 and was enthroned
on July 17, 2005 at St. Lucy Old Roman Catholic Cathedral, in Brooklyn , NY .
+Peter Paul Brennan and +Francis Spataro Co-Consecrated at St. Lucy's Old Roman Catholic Cathedral in August of 2006:
+Michael James Kline (1949- )
*Deacon, September 1998, by Archbishop Louis Falk (ACA).
*Priest, March 2004, by Archbishop Irl Gladfelter. (ALCC, Formerly ECCL)
*Bishop, August 2006, by Primary Consecrator: +++His Beatitude Patriarch Yuri I, Belarus National Orthodox Church-American World Patriarchates (AWP)
The Coptic Lineage Overview
+++Patriarch Abuna Basiliyos consecrated
1959 Abuna Gabre Mikael Kristos consecrated
1982 Philip Lewis consecrated
1990 Nils Bertil Persson consecrated
2001 Peter Paul Brennan consecrated
2006 Michael James Kline consecrated
2011 Matthew Conan Kline Co-Consecrators Peter Paul Brennan, Francis C. Spataro, Paget Mack
The Roman Catholic Church through the Order of Corporate Reunion (O.C.R.) (1)
+ Dominicus Cardinal Agostino (CardinalPatriarch of Venice), assisted by + Luigi Cardinal Nazari di Calabiana (Archbishop of Milan), + Vincentius Cardinal Moretti, and + Ignatios Ghiurekian (a Byzantine Catholic Archbishop and Abbot-General of Ordo Mechitaristarum Venetiarum from the Island of Saint Lazarus near Venice) in 1877, acting under the authorization of +++Blessed Pope Pius IX, consecrated + Frederick George Lee, + Thomas Wimberley Mossman, and + John Thomas Seccombe
+ Stanton + Conybeare + Mathew + Howarth + Nichols + Plummer + DeWitow + Propheta + Ryan + Curreri +Brennan +Kline +Kline
From the Apostolic See of St. Peter at Antioch, through the Malankara (Malabar) Orthodox Church and the African Orthodox Church
+++ Moran Mor Ignatius Yacob II, Syrian Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East
+ Joseph Mar Dionysios V Metropolitan of the Malankara Orthodox Church
+ Mar Julias I Archbishop of Ceylon, Goa and India, the Malankara Orthodox Church
+++Saint Joseph Rene Vilatte
+ George Alexander McGuire, Patriarch, the African Orthodox Church
+ William Ernest James Robertson
+ William Russell Miller
+ Richard Thomas McFarland
+ Peter Paul Brennan
+Michael James Kline
+Matthew Conan Kline
