The Most Reverend Hubert Augustus Rogers, DD
Emeritus Primate NAORCC
Obituary
The Third Primate of The North American Old Roman Catholic Church was Archbishop Hubert Augustus Rogers, a native of St Eustathius in the Dutch West Indies. General Synod confirmed his election to the Primacy of the Church in May 1958 following the death of Archbishop Carfora. Archbishop Rogers led the Church through the turbulent decades of the 1950’s and 1960’s. Society was being rocked by the Civil Rights Movement at this time, and Archbishop Rogers courageously led The North American Old Roman Catholic Church despite the many racial attacks which were made upon his character and person. The Church proudly elected a black man to the Office of Primate during these difficult times, and supported him throughout. While a number of parishes entered the Russian Orthodox Church during these years, Archbishop Rogers led the remaining parishes with great wisdom, preserving the integrity, faith, mission and apostolate of The North American Old Roman Catholic Church. Archbishop Hubert Rogers resigned from the Primacy of the Church on April 30, 1972 and returned to his childhood home in the Dutch West Indies, where he was well received by all of the denominations represented in the islands, and where he finally returned into the arms of his Lord when he died on August 25, 1976.
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 |
| 28 | 4 | 1942 July 30th ✠Hubert Augustus Rogers, Archbishop, New York |
| Prime consecrator of | ||
| 1948 January 25th ✠James Hubert Rogers | ||
| 1948 October 10th ✠Julian Lester Smith | ||
| 1952 June 21st ✠Cyrus Augustine Starkey | ||
| 1952 June 29th ✠Paul Joseph Kleinschrodt | ||
| 1957 January 13th ✠George John Koerner | ||
| 1959 November 28th ✠Joseph Kelly | ||
| 1961 January 8th ✠Donald M. Foster | ||
| 1964 November 15th ✠C. A. Johnson | ||
| 1967 January 21st ✠James Edward Burns, Bishop, Staten Island | ||
| 1969 September 21st ✠Edward Carlton Payne, Archbishop, New England ✠William Joseph Mahurter & ✠Daniel Quilter Brown | ||
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