Hebraic-Celtic Line of Succession

The Holy Celtic Church  is custodian to more than forty lines of Apostolic Succession, however, in order to prove the validity of our sacraments we need only prove one line to be valid. Some of our lines are very "direct"  to the source in the Roman Catholic or Orthodox churches, such as the mid twentieth century line to the Roman church through Archbishop Carlos Duarte Costa of Brazil. An incomplete but extensive list of successions is available to all enquirers. Please use the contact form below.

We have chosen to give here, as an example, the "Hebraic-Celtic" Succession, not because it is more valid than other lines, in fact, because of the Anglican connection, it is somewhat  questionable to some people, but to the Church historian it is a very interesting line as it meanders across the world from Jerusalem to St David's and Canterbury, through many of the dioceses of England and Wales through the Caroline Divines and Non-Jurors, the Scottish Episcopal and American Episcopal Churches before finding it's way back to Glastonbury and the twentieth century Holy Celtic Church. 

First line from St James the Less to Thomas Cranmer via the bishops of St David's.

St James of Jerusalem, Brother of Our Lord

• St James the Less,  Brother of Our Lord and  Bishop of Jerusalem
  
  
• Simeon
  
  
• Justus I
  
  
• Zaccheus
  
  
• Tobias
  
  
• Benjamin
  
  
• John I
  
  
• Matthias
  
  
• PhilippineSeneca
  
  
• Justus II
  
  
• Levi
  
  
• Ephaim
  
  
• Joseph I
  
  
• Judas
  
  
• Marcus
  
  
• Cassianus
  
  
• Publius
  
  
• Maximus I
  
  
• Julian I
  
  
• Caius
  
  
• Symmachus
  
  
• Caius II
  
  
• Julian II
  
  
• Maximus II
  
  
• Antonius
  
  
• Capito
  
  
• Valius
  
  
• Daleanus
  
  
• Narcissus
  
  
• Dius
  
  
• Germanio
  
  
• Gordius
  
  
• Alexander
  
  
• Nazabancs
  
  
• Hymenacus
  
  
• Zamboas
  
  
• Herman
  
  
• Marcarius
  
  
• Maximus III
  
  
• Cyril
  
  
• Herenius
  
  
• Hilary
  
  
• John II
  
  
• Praglius
  
  
• Juvenal
  
  
• Anastacius
  
  
• Martyrius
  
  
• Salutis
  
  
• Elias
  
  
• John III of Jerusalem
  
  
• St David, First Celtic Bishop of Minevia, 519 A.D.
  
  

His successors as Bishops of St David's (Menevia) were as follows:

• Cynog
  
  
• Teilo
  
  
• Ceven
  
  
• Morfall
  
  
• Haerwneu
  
  
• Elwaed
  
  
• Gwrnwen
  
  
• llumverth
  
  
• Gwrgwyst
  
  
• Eineon
  
  
• Clydawg
  
  
• Elfod Ethelman
  
  
• Elane
  
  
• Magelsgwyd
  
  
• Made
  
  
• Cadell
  
  
• Sadwrnfen
  
  
• Novis
  
  
• Sulhaithnay
  
  
• Idwall
  
  
• Asser
  
  
• Arthwael
  
  
• Samsom
  
  
• Reubin (Ruelinus)
  
  
• Rhydderch (Rodheric)
  
  
• Elwin (Elguni)
  
  
• (Morbiw?)
  
  
• Llunwerth (Lywarch)
  
  
• (Nergu/ Vergu?)
  
  
• Hubert (Sulhidyr)
  
  
• Eneuris (Everus)
  
  
• (Ivor?)
  
  
• MorgeneuI
  
  
• Nathan
  
  
• Jenan (Jovan)
  
  
• Arwystl (Argustell)
  
  
• Morgeneu II (Morgenveth/Eurgeneu)
  
  
• Ervin (Hernun)
  
  
• Trahacarn (Tremarin/Caermerin)
  
  
• Joseph II
  
  
• Bleiddud (Bleithud)
  
  
• Salien (Sulgheim/Sulgeheyn)
  
  
• Abraham
  
  
• Salien (Sulgheim/Sulgeheyn) restored
  
  
• Rhyddmarch/Hythmarch
  
  
• Wilfrid (Griffel)
  
  
• Bernard, a Norman, and Chancellor to Queen Adelize, the first bishop of St David's to submit to the see of Canterbury (1115-47)
  
  
• David Fitzgerald (1147-76), who had been Archdeacon of Cardingan
  
  
• Peter de Leia (1176-98), who had been Prior of Wenlock
  
  
• Giraldus Cambrensis (1198-1203), whose election was never ratified
  
  
• Geoffrey de Henelawe (1203-14)
  
  
• Gervase (iorwerth) (1214-29), who died in office
  
  
• Anselm le Gros (1230-48)
  
  
• Thomas Wallensis (1248-56)
  
  
• Richard de Carew (1256-80)
  
  
• Thomas Beck (1280-98), who had been Archdeacon of Dorset
  
  
• David Martyn (1298-1328)
  
  
• Henry Gower (1328-47)
  
  
• John Thoresby (1347-50), later Bishop of Worcester, Lord Chancellor
  
  
• Reginald Brian (1350-53), later Bishop of Worcester
  
  
• Thomas Falstoffe (1352-61), who had been Parson of Fakenham, Norfolk
  
  
• Adam Houghton (1361-89), Lord Chancellor
  
  
• John Gilbert (1389-c.97), who had been Bishop of Hereford
  
  

1397 – 1401 Sede Vacante

• Guy de Mona or de Mohun (1401-08), Lord Treasurer
  
  
• Henry Chicele, Bishop fo the Celtic Church in Wales, St David's in 1408, made Archbishop of Canterbury by Rome 1414, who consecrated:
  
  
• Thomas Bourchier as Bishop of Worcester (1443 Ely, 1454 Canterbury) who on the 31st January 1479 consecrated:
  
  
• John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury, who in 1487 consecrated:
  
  
• Henry Dean, Archbishop of Canterbury, who consecrated
  
  
• William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury, who in 1521 consecrated:
  
  
• Thomas Cranmer, who was Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England.
  
  

Second Line from St John the Evangelist to Thomas Cranmer via the Archbishops of Canterbury

St John the Evangelist

• St John the Evangelist
  
  
• Polycarp
  
  
• Pothinus
  
  
• Irenaeus
  
  
• zaccharius
  
  
• Elias
  
  
• Faustinus
  
  
• Verus
  
  
• Julius
  
  
• Ptolemy
  
  
• Vocius
  
  
• Maximus
  
  
• Tetradus
  
  
• Verissimus
  
  
• Justus
  
  
• Albinus
  
  
• Martin
  
  
• Antiochus
  
  
• Elpidius
  
  
• Licarius
  
  
• Eucharius I
  
  
• Patieus
  
  
• Lupicinius
  
  
• Rusticu
  
  
• Stephanus
  
  
• Viventiolus
  
  
• Euchericus II
  
  
• Lupus
  
  
• Licontius
  
  
• Sacerdos
  
  
• Nicetus
  
  
• Priscus
  
  
• Aetherius
  
  
• St Augustine, Archbishop of Canterbury (597-604).   
  
  

• St Lawrence (605-19)
  
  
• St Mellitus (619-24)
  
  
• St Justus (624-27)
  
  
• St Honorius (627-53)
  
  
• St Deusdedit (Adeodatus) (655-64)
  
  
• Wighard (664)
  
  
• Adrian (664)
  
  

664-68 Sede Vacante

• St Theodore of Tarsus (668-90)
  
  
• St Bertwald (693-731)
  
  
• St Tatwine (731-34)
  
  
• St Nothelm (735-40)
  
  
• St Cuthbert (741-58)
  
  
• St Bregwin (759-64)
  
  
• St Jaenberht (766-91)
  
  
• St Aethelheard (793-805)
  
  
• Wulfred (805-32)
  
  
• Syred (832)
  
  
• Feologild (832)
  
  
• Ceolnoth (833-70)
  
  
• Ethelred (870-89)
  
  
• Plegmund (890-914)
  
  
• Althelm as Bishop of Wells (914-23) who in 914 consecrated:
  
  
• Wulfhelm as Bishop of Wells (923 Canterbury) who in 927 consecrated:
  
  
• St Odo the Severe as Bishop of Ramsbury (942 Canterbury) who in 957 consecrated:
  
  
• St Dunstan as Bishop of Worcester (960 Canterbury) who in 984 consecrated:
  
  

• St Alphage as Bishop of Winchester (1005 Canterbury) who in 990 consecrated:

• Elfric as Bishop of Ramsbury (995 Canterbury) who in 1003 consecrated:

• Wulfstan as Bishop of Worcester and York who on the 13th November 1020 consecrated:
  
  
• Ethelnoth as Archbishop of Canterbury who in 1035 consecrated:
  
  
• Eadsige as Bishop of St Martin's, Canterbury (Archbishop of Canterbury 1038) who on the 3rd April 1043 consecrated:
  
  
• Stigand as Bishop of Elmham (1052 Canterbury) who in 1058 consecrated:
  
  
• Siward as Bishop of Rochester who on the 29th September 1070 assisted William, Bishop of London at the consecration of:
  
  
• Bl. Lanfranc as Archbishop of York, who in 1070 consecrated:
  
  
• Thomas as Archbishop of York, who on the 4th December 1094 consecrated:
  
  
• St Anselm as Archbishop of Canterbury, who on the 26th July 1108 consecrated:
  
  
• Richard de Belmeis as Bishop of London, who on the 18th February 1123 consecrated:
  
  
• William of Corbeuil as Archbishop of Canterbury, who on the 17th November 1129 consecrated:
  
  
• Henry of Blois as Bishop of Winchester, who on the 3rd June 1162 consecrated:
  
  
• St Thomas Becket as Archbishop of Canterbury, who on the 23rd August 1164 consecrated
  
  
• Roger of Gloucester as Bishop of Worcester, who on the 7th November 1176 assisted Gilbert Foliot, Bishop of London, at the consecration of :
  
  
• Peter de Leia as Bishop of St David's, who on the 29th September 1185 assisted Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury, at the consecration of:
  
  
• Gilbert Glanville as Bishop of Rochester, who on the 23rd May 1199 assisted Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury, at the consecration of:
  
  
• William de St Mere l'Eglise who on the 5th October 1214 assisted Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury, at the consecration of :
  
  
• Walter de Gray as Bishop of Worcester (1216 Archbishop of York), who on the 5th December 1249 consecrated:
  
  
• Walter Kirkham as Bishop of Durham, who on the 7th February 1255 consecrated:
  
  
• Henry as Bishop of Whithern, who on the 9th January 1284 assisted William Wickane, Archbishop of York, at the consecration of :
  
  
• Anthony Beck at Bishop of Durham (1306 Patriarch of Jerusalem) who on the 14th September 1292 consecrated:
  
  
• John of Halton as Bishop of Carlisle, who on the 27th June 1322 assisted Thomas Cobham, Bishop of Worcester, at the consecration of :
  
  
• Roger Northborough as Bishop of Lichfield, who on the 15th July 1330 assisted Henry Burghersh, Bishop of Lincoln, at the consecration of :
  
  
• Robert Wyvil as Bishop of Salisbury, who on the 12th March 1340 consecrated:
  
  
• Ralph Stratford as Bishop of London, who on the 15th May 1346 assisted John Stratford, Archbishop of Canterbury, at the consecration of :
  
  
• William Edendon as Bishop of Winchester, who on the 20th March 1362 consecrated:
  
  
• Simon Sudbury as Bishop of London, (later Archbishop of Canterbury) who on the 12th May 1370 consecrated:
  
  
• Thomas Brentingham as Bishop of Exeter, who on the 5th January 1382 consecrated:
  
  
• Robert Braybrokke as Bishop of London, who on the 3rd February 1398 consecrated:
  
  
• Roger Walden as Archbishop of Canterbury, who on the 14th July 1398 probably consecrated:
  
  
• Henry Beaufort as Bishop of Lincoln, who in 1405 became Bishop of Winchester and on the 15th May 1435 consecrated:
  
  
• Thomas Bourchier as Bishop of Worcester (1443 Ely, 1454 Canterbury) who on the 31st January 1479 consecrated:
  
  
• John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury, who in 1487 consecrated:
  
  
• Richard Fox, Bishop of Exeter, Bath and Wells, Durham and Winchester, who in 1502 consecrated:
  
  
• William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury, who in 1521 consecrated:
  
  
• John Longlands, Bishop of Lincoln who on the 30th March 1533 consecrated Thomas Cranmer.

One of several lines from Thomas Cranmer to the present day.

• Thomas Cranmer, who was Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England, and who in June 1536 consecrated:
  

• William Barlow as Bishop of St David's (1549 Bath, 1559 Chichester), who on the 17th December 1559 consecrated:
  
  
• Edmund Grindal as Bishop of London (150 York, 1576 Canterbury) who on the 21st April 1577 consecrated:
  
  
• John Whitgift as Bishop of Worcester (1583 Canterbury) who on the 8th may 1597 consecrated:
  
  
• Richard Bancroft as Bishop of London (1604 Canterbury) who on the 3rd December 1609 consecrated:
  
  
• George Abbot as Bishop of Lichfield (1610 London, 1611, Canterbury) who on the 14th December 1617 consecrated:
  
  
• George Monteigne as Bishop of Lincoln (1621 London, 1628 Durham, 1628 York) who on the 18th November, 1621, consecrated:
  

• William Laud, Bishop of St David's, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, who on June 17th, 1638, consecrated:

• Brian Duppa, Bishop of Chichester, who on Octobert 18th 1660, consecrated:
  
  
• Gilbert Sheldon, Bishop of London, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, who on December 6, 1674, consecrated:
  
  
• Henry Compton, Bishop of Oxford, later of London, who on the January 27, 1678, consecrated:
  
  
• William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury, who on October 25, 1685, consecrated:
  
  
• Thomas White, Bishop of Peterborough, who on February 24, 1693, consecrated:
  
  
• George Hickes, Suffragan Bishop of Thetford, Later Primus of the English Non-jurors, who on February 24, 1712, consecrated:
  
  
• James Gadderar (consecrated without a See; later Bishop of Aberdeen and Moray), who on the 4th June 1727 consecrated:
  
  
• Thomas Rattray, Bishop of Dunkeld, of the Scottish Episcopal Church who in 1741 consecrated:
  
  
• William Falconer, Bishop of Ross and Caithness, of the Scottish Episcopal Church, who on the 21st September 1768 consecrated:
  
  
• Robert Kilgour, Bishop of Aberdeen, who was consecrated 12 Feb 1775 by Frederick Corwallis, who was consecrated 19 Feb 1750 by Thomas Herring... on the 14th November 1784 consecrated:
  

Consecration of Samuel Seabury, Old St Paul's, Edinburgh

• Samuel Seabury, Bishop of Connecticut, of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the USA, who on the 17th September 1792 did consecrate:
  
  
• Thomas J. Claggett, Bishop of Maryland, who on the 7th May 1797 consecrated:
  
  
• Edward Bass, Bishop of Massachusetts, who on the 18th October 1797 consecrated:
  
  
• Abraham Jarvis, Bishop of Connecticut, who on the 29th May 1811 consecrated:
  
  
• John H. Hopkins, Bishop Co-adjutor of New York, who on October 25, 1827, consecrated:
  
  
• Henry U. Onderdonk, Bishop of Pennsylvania, who on July 7, 1836, consecrated:
  
  
• Samuel A. McCroskry, Bishop of Michigan, who on December 8, 1875, consecrated:
  
  
• William E. McLaren, Bishop of Chicago, who on June 24, 1898, consecrated:

• William Montgomery Brown, Bishop of the Old Catholic Church in America, who on January 2, 1927 consecrated:
  
  
• Wallace David de Ortega Maxey, who on June 5, 1946, consecrated:
  

• Charles Leslie Saul, who on the August 1, 1946, consecrated:

Mar Georgius of Glastonbury

Consecration of Saint +Tugdual by ++Irenaeus d’Eschevannes, Archbishop of Arles, on 5 May 1957

• Hugh George de Willmott Newman (Mar Georgius), Patriarch of Glastonbury and Catholicos of the West, who on 27 May 1950 consecrated:

• Harold Percival Nicholson, Archbishop of Karim in the Ancient Catholic Church, who on the 20 May 1955 consecrated:

•  Jan Frederick Assendelft-Attland, Archbishop of the Ancient Catholic Church of France, who on 20 May 1955 consecrated:
  
  
• Irenaeus d’Eschevannes, Archbishop of Arles, who on 5 May 1957 consecrated: 

•  Jean Pierre Danyel (St Tugdual), Bishop of Redon, Primate of the Holy Celtic Church, who on 15 August 1966 consecrated (see "Apostolic Succession" page for further information):
  
  
• John Nicholas Collins, Auxiliary of the Old Roman Catholic Church of Canada, who on 15 December 1968 consecrated:
  
  
• Terence Coghlan Distin, Auxiliary of the Holy Celtic Church, Superior of the Order of the Atonement,  who on 26 April 1969 consecrated :
• Anthony Walter John Williams, Primate of the Holy Celtic Church,  who on 20 May 1979 consecrated:
  
• Illtyd Thomas, Primate of the Celtic Catholic Church. Who on the 29th of July 2006 consecrated:
  
•  John Kersey and Andrew Linley,  who on the 15th August 2007 consecrated:
  
•  Alistair Herrick Bate, Primus of the Holy Celtic Church International (founded 2013). 

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Most Revd Dom Alistair Bate OSBA, M.A.Div, Primus of the Holy Celtic Church

Irish Lines of Succession may be seen here.
Liberal Catholic Lines of succession may be seen here.