Noble Dynasty

AMERICAN

ORTHODOX

CATHOLIC CHURCH 

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HIS BEATITUDE ARCHBISHOP METROPLITE NICOLAS 

THE AMERICAN ORTHODOX-CATHOLIC CHURCH

LINEAGE - THE CHURCHES OF RUSSIA AND GREECE the canonical authority of the Orthodox Church of Russia Archbishop Aftimios Ofiesh, (consecrated Hierarch in the Russian Orthodox Church by Archbishops Evdokim Meschersky, Alexander Nemolovsky and Stephen Dzubai in 1917), assisted by Bishop Emmanuel Abohatab and Metropolitan Elias of Tyre and Sidon, (Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch), in 1928, consecrated Bishop Sophronios Bishara at Saint Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral in New York City.

Bishop Bishara, assiting Bishop Theophan Stylian Noli of the autocephalous Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese of Boston, in 1934, consecrated the First Exarch for the Greek Patriarchate of Alexandria in America, Bishop Christopher Contogeorge. Bishop Contogeorge, with Metropolitan Theophan Stylian Noli, gave Episcopal Ordination to Bishop Arsenios Saltas. Bishop Saltas, in 1935, gave Consecration to Bishop Joseph Klimowycz for the Russian Orthodox Church. Bishop Arsenios Saltas was the Second Exarch for the Greek Patriarchate of Alexandria in the United States..

It is in this Episcopal Ordination that the lineage of The American Orthodox-Catholic Church has her Greek lineage: in that from Archbishop Christopher's Apostolic Succession came the primary consecrator of Patriarch Walter Myron Propheta, in 1964, Metropolitan Joachim Souris, Primate of The Autocephalous Greek Orthodox Church in America, as well as Archbishop Peter Zhurawetsky. Primary Consecrator of Metropolitan Souris, in 1951, was Patriarch Joseph Klimowycz of The American Holy Orthodox Catholic Eastern Church.
The Greek lineage of Archbishop Propheta was further solidified by Archbishop Theoklitos Kantaris who, in 1965 and by the laying on of hands transmitted the Succession of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus, (Greek Orthodox). Archbishop Kantaris was a founding Hierarch of the Greek Orthdox Archdiocese of New York, with Bishop Photius.

These lineages were then given by Archbishop Walter Propheta, in the 1971 Consecration of Bishop LaVon Miguel Haithman, (Gabre Kristos Mikael); who then transmitted them to Archbishop David William Worley, (Gabre Kristos Jeremiah), in a 1972 Consecration. Archbishop Worley, in a 2004 Consecration, passed the same Succession to the current AOCC/AOC Metropolitan Primate, +Samuel, (+Mark A. Pultorak).