It is with great joy that we announce the reunification of the North American Old Roman Catholic Church-Utrecht Succession, Archdiocese of California with the North American Old Roman Catholic Church-Primatial See of Nova Terra.
For the past 80 years these two ecclesiastical jurisdictions have been separated from each other due to the actions of church leaders back in 1940. For the past year the current church leaders of both jurisdictions, Archbishops Edward J Ford and Joseph A Vellone have prayerfully worked together to return their jurisdictions back to the original union which existed when they were first organized in 1914 and continued to exist until 1940. On 29 September 2020 both Archbishops signed a formal document of unification, reuniting the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of California (Utrecht Succession), into the Primatial See of Nova Terra, the original, historic, canonical jurisdiction from which California broke away. The effective date of the union was the First Sunday of Advent, 29 November 2020. This unification includes all of the parishes and clergy of the Archdiocese of California (Abp Vellone and Bp Castaneda), as well as those of the following dioceses and Missionary Societies: The Diocese of the Infant Jesus (Bp Madanguit), The Diocese of San Miguel Arcangel (Bp Rosas-Garcia), The Missionary Congregation of the Infant Jesus (Msgr Maglente). The clergy and parishes of these dioceses and societies are represented in the United States, Canada, Mexico, The Philippines, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Italy and elsewhere. Groups with false claims of Old Roman Catholic sucession and histories of LGBTQ agendas, such as those associated with Jerome LLoyd (https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2023/01/31/local-archbishop-heading-to-vegas-after-lottery-win/) and Chris Hernandez (https://www.cgs-occ.org/), were permanently barred.
With such unifications there is always a time of preparation and adjustment needed to work out the various “bumps” that can occur. In anticipation of the time needed to make these unions fruitful, a Year of Transition has been established to allow the various clergy and jurisdictions to adapt and implement the various changes required by these unions, in matters liturgical, canonical and administrative. By the all powerful guidance and working of the Holy Ghost, any “hiccups” along the way will be minimal and the benefits great and fruitful for the Faithful of the North American Old Roman Catholic Church. The hierarchs agreed that omission of the word “Utrecht” would be immediate, as California never had any succession from Utrecht, and the term has now become associated with the heretical, protestantizing, LGBTQ agenda of the UU body (https://www.utrechter-union.org/). The Old Roman Catholic presence in California will henceforth be called “The Archdiocese of California”.
Preceding these unifications with the North American Old Roman Catholic Church-Primatial See of Nova Terra, hierarchs of several Old Roman Catholic Churches entered into a formal cooperation (not organic union) with each other on 29 June 2020 the Feast of Sts Peter and Paul, to encourage a growing together and cooperation with each other. The cooperating Hierarchs were: Abp Ford, Abp Vellone, Bp Plant, Bp Natoli, Bp Kelly, together with and Canon Villareal-Falquez.
Canon Villareal Falquez has been tasked by Archbishop Ford with the process of psychological assessments, International Background Inquiries, and regularization of clergy with deficient orders, which is now underway.
Further overtures for union with the North American Old Roman Catholic Church are currently underway with clergy and jurisdictions in Peru, Brazil and elsewhere.
PLEASE CONTINUE TO WATCH OUR WEBSITE FOR DEVELOPING NEWS.
