Jules Ferrette

Jules Ferrette, also spelled Julius Ferrette or in 1903), was allegedly bishop of Iona; and he was the purported founder of the Ancient British Church.

Biography Ferrette was born in Épinal, France,

He was a Dominican missionary in Mesopotamia and Kurdistan from September to June 1856, but then apostasized from the Catholic Church. No original document of this alleged consecration is known to exist; and Ferrette published what he claimed was an official English translation of his Syriac consecration document after he arrived in London.

In Oxfordshire in 1858, Richard Williams Morgan—an Anglican priest—was conditionally "baptised, confirmed, ordained and consecrated" as patriarch of the Ancient British Church by Ferrette, and given by Ferrette the following name and full title: Mar Pelagius I, Hierarch of Caerleon-on-Usk.

Ferrette died in Geneva in 1904

Apostolic succession claims The following churches and bishops are the main ones which claim, have claimed or are believed to be descending from Ferrette's apostolic succession through alleged episcopal ordinations received from Ferrette or from bishops who claim their consecration line goes back to Ferrette:

Jules Ferrette Richard Williams Morgan allegedly consecrated bishop by Ferrette. Leon Chechemian, allegedly consecrated in 1890 by Charles Isaac Stevens and Alfred Spencer Richardson (the latter was from the Reformed Episcopal Church in the United States). British Orthodox Church and abba Seraphim Celtic Orthodox Church Mar Frederic (Harrington), consecrated bishop under condition by Jacobus II. Herbert founded the Jesuene Church, also called the Free Orthodox-Catholic Church, in 1937. Thereafter, Herbert was consecrated bishop of Caerleon in 1937 by the primate of the Orthodox-Keltic Church of the British Commonwealth of Nations, Mar Frederic (Harrington). On 3 December 1944, Herbert was re-consecrated bishop by Willmott Newman. In 1957, the name of Herbert's church was changed to "Ancient British Church (Agnostic)", with "(Agnostic)" meaning his church did not follow any dogma.