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A Roman Catholic Line of Apostolic Succession

We in the HCCI are fortunate to have many different lines of succession from the Roman Catholic Church. This one, the "Duarte Costa Succession" is one of the more recent and direct.
PictureArchbishop Duarte Costa with Bishop Castillo-Mendez

Carlos Duarte Costa(1888-1961), Bishop of Botucatu (1924) and Maura (1937) in the Roman Catholic Church; excommunicated by the Vatican after criticising its support of the Nazi regime and was founder of the Brazilian National Catholic Church (ICAB) in 1945, on 3 May 1948 consecrated:

Luis Fernando Castillo-Mendez, (1922-), Patriarch, ICAB (1988), who assisted by Melquiades Rosa Garcia and Bartolomeu Sebastiao Vileda on 30 January 1985                consecrated as Primate of the Igreja Catolica Apostolica Dominicana:

PictureArchbishop Castillo-Mendez with Archbishop Bertil Persson
Forest Ernest Barber (1922-92), who assisted by Archbishop-Primate Emile F. Rodriguez Fairfield, Iglesia Ortodoxa Catolica Apostolica Mexicana, and Bishop Paul G. W. Schultz, Iglesia Ortodoxa Catolica Apostolica Mexicana and Apostolic Administrator of The Apostolic Episcopal Church of USA, consecrated on 14 June 1987:

Nils Bertil Alexander Persson (Mar Alexander) (1941-), Third Primate of the Apostolic Episcopal Church (1986), who assisted by Philip Lewis, Metropolitan-Archbishop-Primate, The Ethiopian Orthodox Coptic Church of North & South America& Europe, and Paget E.J. Mack, Archbishop, The Franciscan Order of St Benedict the Moor, consecrated on 23 November 2008:

Alistair Herrick Bate - Primus of the Holy Celtic Church International (at the time a bishop of the Liberal Catholic Apostolic Church)

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