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Archbishop – MetropolitanJoseph René Vilatte

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Research Work 1974 and further

Archbishop Philippe Laurent De Coster, B.Th., D.D.

First degree « Doctor of Divinity » on September 2, 1979

For Research Work in Apostolic Successions

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H.H. Ignatius Peter III

Archbishop – Metropolitan Joseph René Vilatte

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Bishop Eduard Herzog (young)

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+ René Vilatte’s Priesthood Certificate

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+ René Vilatte’s Election to the Episcopate

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+ René Vilatte’s Consecration Bull translated from the Syriac

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Photograph taken after the consecration. First row, from left to right: Bishops Vilatte, Mar Ivanios,Bishop of Kadanad, Mar Dyonisiois, Metropolitan of Malabar, Mar Athanasius, Bishop of Kottayam,Mar Gregorius (St. Gregory of Parumala), Bishop of Niranam, Bishop Antonio F.X. Alvares. Secondrow: Seminarians and faculty from Kottayam.

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Reversed consecration chart of Mar Julius François Xavier Alvarez,Archbishop of Ceylan, confirming the consecration of + Joseph René Vilatte,

on May 29, 1892, at the Church of Colombo.

Archbishop Joseph René VilatteConsecrated:

+ Miraglia-Gullotti +Frederick E.J. Lloyd + George A. McGuire + Stefan Kaminsky Victor de Kubinyi

Mgr Nydbladh Mgr Fryxell + René Vilatte Arms

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Archbishop Joseph René Vilatte

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Archbishop Joseph René Villate and Primate Jean Bricaud

+ Jean Bricaud

Archbishop - Primate Jean Bricaud (left)

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Dear Monsignor,

I just received your agreeable letter and the booklets. Thank you for your good wishes and

fervid prayers because I once again need to live for the restoration of the Orthodox Catholic

faith in France.

The next time you visit Gargan you should prepare a list of Questions so as not to waste time,

then study and see my work in America after the religious activities poisoned by the apostle

Briand.

You should come early in the morning and after an hour or two of work, George will serve us

lunch, then you will consult several of my newspaper clippings and with patience you will

listen to my commentaries in my abominable French.

Once again, Thank you for your good wishes, let us pray for one another and may God guide

our steps for His glory and His truth.

Your very devoted,

+ Renatus Archbishop Vilatte

Metropolitan and Primate

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The Monastery where Archbishop Vilatte spent his last days

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Charles Chapman Grafton(young)

Bishop J.H. Brown

Three Great French Historical Archbishops in the Antiochian Jacobite Lineage of Archbishop Joseph René Vilatte (+ Renatus)

Archbishop Jules Houssaye (Abbé Julio)of the French Catholic Church (Gallican)

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Louis François Giraud, Patriarch of the Catholic Gallican Church

Primate Jean Bricaud

of the Catholic Gnostic Church(later the Gnostic Apostolic Church)

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Newspaper Cuttings 1892 …..

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More readable newspaper cuttings available by askingEmail: fb060913@skynet.be 

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Archbishop Philippe Laurent De Coster, B.Th., D.D. of the Latin Old Roman Catholic

Church of Flanders, as conclusion to the testimony of documents and photographs as above

likes to add an important quotation taken from an article written for Internet, “The Origin of 

Orthodoxy in East Africa” (The AOC in Kenya), by Metropolitan Makarios (Tillyrides) of 

Zimbabwe, and of the Orthodox Research Institute:

“…This bishop was Rene Vilatte, titled Mar. Timotheos, Old Catholic Archbishop of North

America and First Primate of the American Catholic Church. He was one of the occasional

individuals who have valid Episcopal orders, but was never recognised by any of the

established churches.”

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