Wallace David de Ortega Maxey

Biography Ortega Maxey was born on February 22, 1902. By 1923, he was ordained a priest by Joseph Rene Vilatte of the American Catholic Church. He would be consecrated as bishop 4 years later by William Montgomery Brown, before receiving several conditional consecrations after. In 1937, he was also deposed as a deacon from the Episcopal Church in the United States.

From 1944 to 1949, he would serve as president and pastor of the Ancient Christian Fellowship; and by 1946, the Ancient Christian Fellowship merged with the Apostolic Episcopal Church.

Maxey became a Unitarian Universalist in the 1950s and hosted gay-themed events at the First Universalist Church of Los Angeles.