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The Old Roman Catholic Church As Bishop for England, the Most Reverend Arnold Harris Mathew, met with mixed results with his charge from the Church of Utrecht and its sister ecclesial bodies of the Utrecht Union of Churches. The English mission remained part of the Utrecht Union until December 1910 when Bishop Mathew declared the autonomy of the English mission due to theological and praxis differences with the continental churches of the Union. In 1913, Bishop Mathew consecrated HRH Rudolph Francis Edward Hamilton de Lorraine-Brabant, the Prince de Landes Berghes to the episcopacy. The Prince Bishop established the ministry of the Old Roman Catholic Church in the United States in 1914 when he migrated to North America in order to avoid the difficulties of World War I.
Bishop de Landes Berghes consecrated to the episcopacy, Fr. Carmel Henry Carfora, an Italian Franciscan Friar in 1916. Bishop Carfora was elected to succeed Bishop de Landes Berghes as Archbishop of the Old Roman Catholic Diocese of America and is responsible for organization of the North American Old Roman Catholic Church. During Bishop Carfora's tenure, the church expanded greatly across the United States and Canada. His death would set in motion a sequence of events that gave rise to the current state of the Old Roman Catholic Church in North America and four other ecclesial bodies. |
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