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 Varle t, 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
