Photo of Bertiaux & Greenfield At Bertiaux's Chicago Temple, December 4, 1993 EV on occasion of Greenfield's reconsecration to the Episcopate. Photo by Frater 117. See Certificate below.
APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION &
SUCCESSION FROM THE PROPHET
a statement of policy by Rt. Rev.T Allen Greenfield
Please note that, as Tau Michael Bertiaux has held, since June 16, 1979, all major independent lines of apostolic succession through consecration at that time by Bishop Forest Gregory Barber, all such lines flow to me by virtue of my consecrations by Bertiaux. In line with Patriarch Tau Silenus and Primate Tau Apiryon, I hold that there is a distinction between, on the one hand, Spiritual Appointment and Consecration in the lineage of the Prophet of the Aeon (Crowley) and, on the other, traditional Apostolic Succession.. Both have their importance and validity, in my view, and, in holding both, I believe I can render a rather well informed and detached opinion on this. I hold the succession of the Prophet of the Aeon as a Bishop through Consecration by both the Absolute Grand Patriarch of the Ordo Templi Orientis Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica (November 19, 1988), and from the U.S. Primate of the same august body (December 10, 1993). I adhere to the Law of the New Aeon by conviction and solemn commitments.
I hold also with Tau Michael Bertiaux that Apostolic Succession is of value as a continuation of the most ancient priesthoods of Egypt and Rome through the Christian communion, and that special mystical powers"objectively" are transferred by consecration in these lineages. My particular assertion is that this can be objectively verified through scientific experimentation, similar to that performed in parapsychology with spiritual healers. The legend of Ormus, the Egyptian Priest converted in apostolic times to Christianity, and transforming Egyptian Rites into a mode suitable to the Aeon of Osiris is, at least allegorically, a fair hint of the orderly continuity between ancient Near Eastern religions and the Christian Succession in the Eastern Churches, making it a suitable vehicle for continuity in the Aeon of Horus. In the Western Churches, the Apostolic Succession existed in the many currents of the long-enduring state religion of Rome, which can be traced to the early Roman ruler Numa Pompilius, founder of the College of Pontiffs and the office of Pontifex Maximus, hundreds of years before Christ; passing through the Roman Imperial State as one with the Emperor as Pontifex Maximus from the time of Julius Caesar until the Christian Emperor Gratian renounced the title in 379 E.V., apparently in favor of the Bishop of Rome, Pope Damasus I. According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, "The title pontifex was used of Roman Catholic bishops and pontifex maximus of the pope by the end of the 4th century." The continuity from the most ancient spiritual sources should be obvious here, and its historical value in continuity for the New Aeon equally valid, all other considerations and theories aside.
The following apostolic lineages are quite well documented. Others are also quite well documented and available for suitable historical research purposes.
OLD CATHOLIC & LIBERAL CATHOLIC SUCCESSION - (This constitutes the full succession of Rome, through Pope Urban VIII, his Archbishop of Rheims, the Archbishop of Mieux, and the subsequent accepted lineage of the Dutch Old Catholic Church through Archbishop Geraldus Gul.) ARNOLD HARRIS MATTHEW consecrated by Old Catholic Bishop GUL April 28, 1908 FREDERICK SAMUEL WILLOUGHBY consecrated by MATTHEW October 28, 1914 JAMES INGALL WEDGEWOOD consecrated by WILLOUGHBY February 13, 1916 IRVING STEIGER COOPER consecrated by WEDGEWOOD July 13, 1919 CHARLES J. HAMPTON consecrated by COOPER September 13, 1931 HERMAN ADRIAN SPRUIT consecrated by HAMPTON June 22, 1957 FOREST E. GREGORY BARBER consecrated by SPRUIT June 15, 1971 MICHAEL PAUL BERTIAUX consecrated by BARBER June 16, 1979 ALLEN HENRY GREENFIELD consecrated by BERTIAUX September 21, 1986 & December 4, 1993 EASTERN ORTHODOX (JACOBITE) SUCCESSION- (Jacobite/Eastern Orthodox Succession of Antioch) JOSEPH RENE VILATTE consecrated by Archbishop JULIUS ALVARES May 29, 1892 PAOLO MIRAGLIA consecrated by VILATTE May 6, 1900 JULIEN HOUSSAYE consecrated by MIRAGLIA December 4, 1904 LOUIS FRANCOIS GIRAUD consecrated by HOUSSAYE July 21, 1911 JEAN BRICAUD consecrated by GIRAUD July 12, 1913 VICTOR BLANCHARD consecrated by BRICAUD May 5, 1918 ROGER MENARD consecrated by BLANCHARD January 7, 1945 ROBERT AMBELAIN consecrated by MENARD June 10, 1946 ROGER POMMERY consecrated by AMBELAIN MAY 26, 1958 WILLER VITAL-HERNE consecrated by POMMERY September 16, 1967 ROGER VICTOR-HERARD consecrated by VITAL-HERNE September 7, 1970 JORGE RODRIGUEZ consecrated by VICTOR-HERARD January 6, 1985 MICHAEL PAUL BERTIAUX consecrated by RODRIGUEZ November 14, 1985 ALLEN HENRY GREENFIELD consecrated by BERTIAUX September 21, 1986 & December 4, 1993 AFRICAN ORTHODOX CHURCH - (Alternate Syrio-Jacobite Succession) 1877 Patriarch Bedros consecrated Mar Athanasius 7/29/1889 Mar Athanasius consecrated Mar Alvares 5/29/1892 Mar Alvares consecrated Joseph Rene Vilatte 12/19/1915 - Joseph Rene Vilatte consecrated Frederick Lloyd 11/18/1923 Lloyd consecrated E.J. Robertson 7/3/1938 Robertson consecrated Richard Daly 7/10/1976 Daly consecrated Roberto Toca 1/16/1986 Toca consecrated Jorge Rodriguez-Villa 11/14/1985 Rodriguez-Vila consecrated Michael P. Bertiaux 12/4/93 Bertiaux consecrates Allen Greenfield [The succession of the Russian Orthodox Church, Coptic Orthodox Church, Armenian Orthodox Church and the [non-apostolic] succession of the Mormon Church through Bishop William C.Conway, as well as the [non-apostolic] Doinel Gnostic succession through various routes are also applicable to my ministry. Information will be provided upon request from serious academic and ecclesiastical scholars.]
DOCUMENTATION
Above -BERTIAUX CONSECRATIONS OF GREENFIELD
Above - TAU APIRYON CONSECRATION OF GREENFIELD
Above - RODRIGUEZ CONSECRATION OF BERTIAUX