The Most Reverend Carmel Henry Carfora succeeded Archbishop Berghes, serving as the Second Primate of The North American Old Roman Catholic Church from October 12, 1919 until his death on January 11, 1958, having held the Office of Primate for 38 years and 3 months. Archbishop Carfora presided over the Church during its greatest missionary expansion and activity, guiding the Church’s apostolic labours and growth in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, Europe, South America and even into parts of Africa and Asia. Archbishop Carfora fell asleep in the Lord on January 11, 1958 in Chicago at the age of 78, after a long and valiant battle against multiple illnesses.

Apostolic Succession

1	1541 March 16th ✠Scipione, Cardinal Rebiba. Auxiliary Bishop, Chieti
2	1566 March 12th ✠Giulio Antonio, Cardinal Santorio, Archbishop, Santa Severina
3	1586 September 7th ✠Girolamo, Cardinal Berneri OP, Bishop, Albano
4	1604 April 4th ✠Galeazzo Santivale, Archbishop, Bari
5	1621 May 2nd ✠Ludovico, Cardinal Ludovisi, Camerlengo
6	1622 June 12th ✠Luigi Cardinal Caetani, Tit. Patriarch of Antioch
7	1630 October 6th ✠Giovanni Battista Scannaroli, Bishop, Tyre and Sidon
8	1665 October 24th ✠Antonio, Cardinal Barberini, Archbishop, Reims
9	1668 November 12th ✠Charles Maurice Le Tellier, Archbishop, Reims
10	1670 September 21st ✠Jacques-Benigne Bossuet, Bishop, Meaux
11	1693 October 24th ✠Jacques Goyon de Matignon, Bishop, Condom
12	1719 February 12th ✠Dominique Marie Varlet, Bishop, Ascalon
13	1739 October 17th ✠Petrus Johannes Meindaarts, Archbishop, Utrecht
14	1745 July 11th ✠Johannes van Stiphout, Bishop, Haarlem
15	1763 February 7th ✠Gualtherus van Niewenhuisen, Archbishop, Utrecht
16	1778 June 21st ✠Johannes Adrian Broekman, Bishop, Haarlem
17	1797 July 5th ✠Johannes Jacobus van Rhijn, Archbishop, Utrecht
18	1805 November 7th ✠Gilbertus Cornelius de Jong, Bishop, Deventer
19	1814 April 24th ✠Willibrordus van Os, Archbishop, Utrecht
20	1819 April 12th ✠Johannes Bon, Bishop, Haarlem
21	1825 June 14th ✠Johannes van Santen, Archbishop, Utrecht
22	1853 July 17th ✠Hermanus Heijkamp, Bishop, Deventer
23	1873 August 11th ✠Gaspard Johannes Rinkel, Bishop, Haarlem
24	1892 May 11th ✠Gerardus Gul, Archbishop, Utrecht
25	1908 April 28th ✠Arnold Harris Mathew, Archbishop, London

25	1	1908 April 28th ✠Arnold Harris Mathew, Archbishop, London
26	2	1912 June 29th ✠Rudolphe de Landes Berges, Bishop, Scotland
27	3	1916 October 4th ✠Carmel Henry Carfora, Archbishop, Chicago
		Principal Consecrator of:
		1921 May 30th ✠Roman W. Slocinski
		1921 June 12th ✠Samuel Durlin Benedict
		1924 February 11th ✠Edwin Wallace Hunter
		1926 October 17th ✠Antonio Benigno Lopez y Sierra
		1932 June 26th ✠Vincente Jose Linan
		1940 December 8th ✠Francis Xavier Resch
		1941 April 16th ✠Richard Arthur Marchenna
		1942 July 30th ✠Hubert A. Rogers
		1943 August 24th ✠Frederick Littler Pyman
		1945 May 27th ✠Franciszek J. Mazur
		1945 June 17th ✠Earl Anglin James
		1946 November 3rd ✠Photios Francis Michael Donahue