This archive of documents supplements the official history of the AEC.
Historical documents
Overall history and Apostolic Successions
Each of these works is by AEC Emeritus Primate Bertil Persson:
- The Apostolic Succession of the AEC (also includes much historical information)
- The Apostolic Succession of the AEC from the Order of Corporate Reunion
Historical listings in the Yearbook of American Churches
for the AEC and some related churches
Earliest years
Source of Orders of the AEC (1938)
This document, prepared by Archbishop Brooks, shows the origins of the Holy Orders of the AEC in the historic Churches of the East.
Certified Copies of Ecclesial Letters of Archbishop Arthur Wolford Brooks
This document includes notarized copies of the instruments of election and episcopal consecration of Archbishop Brooks.
Incorporation of the AEC in the State of New York, USA, 1932
The papers of the original AEC corporation.
Arthur Wolford Brooks timeline
by +Bertil Persson
The Astrolog volume 2 no 4 (1930)
This was the journal of the Epiphany Guild, founded and administered by Archbishop Brooks for the study and practice of Mundane Astrology in particular. Also note this horoscope cast by Archbishop Brooks for a treaty signed by President Hoover in 1930.
1940s
Archive of the Ancient Christian Fellowship Review
The Ancient Christian Fellowship (The Old Catholic Church of America) was a denomination in succession to the work of Archbishop Joseph René Vilatte led by Archbishop Wallace de Ortega Maxey (Mar David I), which merged with the AEC in 1946 to become the AEC’s Province of the West. Archbishop Maxey was also Patriarch of Malaga in the Catholicate of the West. In 1949, by which time Archbishop Maxey had succeeded as AEC Primate, the Ancient Christian Fellowship was established separately from the AEC with the character of an ecclesiastical, religious and chivalric order. Archbishop Maxey continued to lead this body until 1976.
- Volume 1, section 3
- Volume 1, section 4
- Volume 1, section 5
- Volume 1, section 6
- Volume 1, sections 7,8 and 9
- Volume 2, section 1
1970s onwards
Obituaries of Archbishop Perry Nikolaus Cedarholm
Archbishop Cedarholm (1890-1979) was Primate of the Svea Synod of the AEC, based in Sweden.
Archive of The Tover of St Cassian
This was originally the journal of the OCR and then became that of the AEC also.
- Volume 2, no 3
- Volume 3, no 1
- Volume 3, no 2
- Volume 3, no 3
- Volume 4, no 1
- Volume 4, no 2
- Volume 5, no 1
- Volume 5, no 2
- Volume 6, no 1
- Volume 8, no 1
- Volume 9, no 1
- Volume 10, no 1
Work of the Vilatte Guild
The Vilatte Guild was an ecumenical sodality established in 1976 under the Presidency of Mr (later Archbishop) Francis Spataro. Its activities were of a historical nature concerned with the independent sacramental movement.
Work of the Charles Mason Remey Society
The Charles Mason Remey Society was formerly the Bellerose Chapter of the Vilatte Guild and continued ecumenical work with particular reference to the Baha’i faith under the direction of +Francis Spataro.
Archive of “The Remey Letter”
Work of the People’s University of the Americas
The PUA was established in 1971 as the university of the American World Patriarchates and an intra-church University Without Walls under the guidance of Patriarch Uladyslau Ryzy-Ryski. It was incorporated as a religious corporation in the State of New York, USA, as well as in Puerto Rico. The PUA remains a part of the American World Patriarchates today. The late Bishop Karl Pruter and J. Gordon Melton in “The Old Catholic Sourcebook” (Garland, 1983) write of Patriarch Uladyslau, “He was a well-educated man with a good academic background. He soon gathered together a fairly respectable faculty and offered courses in English as a second language and an array of courses in the humanities. The school would meet the needs of New York’s immigrant population, especially those from Spanish-speaking lands. It also provided the World Patriarchates with a seminary. In a short time he gathered a great number of students.”
St. Ephrem’s Institute, established in Norway and Sweden by members of the Syrian Orthodox Church and the AEC together with publisher Daniel Moody, functioned as the Scandinavian extension of the PUA from 1974 until 2008, being particularly active in the teaching of Aramaic.
>> American World Patriarchates (archive site)
Liturgy
The authorised Liturgies of the AEC include:
Commemorative works
>>Images of Godly Living by Archbishop Francis Spataro
