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'''Doyé Teido Agama''' is a Christian [[pastor]] within the [[Pentecostalism|Pentecostal]] [[Holiness movement|Holiness]] movement. He is based in the United Kingdom, but has |
'''Doyé Teido Agama''' is a Christian [[pastor]] within the [[Pentecostalism|Pentecostal]] [[Holiness movement|Holiness]] movement. He is based in the United Kingdom, but has close links with the Federal Republic of [[Nigeria]].<ref name=APCwebsite>[http://apostolicpastors.info Apostolic Pastoral Congress] </ref> |
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==Career== |
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| ⚫ | Doye Agama was ordained for Christian ministry in 1994, consecrated bishop in 2004<ref>Doge Agama was first consecrated bishop under the hand of Henry Paul Kontor. This was in 2004. Metropolitan Kontor himself had been consecrated in the Greek Orthodox tradition (Old Calendar), in November 2003 by Archbishop Maximos of Athens (Maximos Valliantos), a Greek Orthodox (Old Calendar) prelate. Maximos Valliantos (formerly Metropolitan of Kefalonia) had become leader of the "Auxentian" Greek old calendarists in January 1995, in succession to Auxentios Pastras himself, Auxentios having died (reposed) in 1994. Auxentios Pastras was leader of the "Florinite" Greek old calendarists from 1963 until deposed in 1986. The "Auxentian" old calendarists are the minority who remained loyal to Auxentios after he had been deposed by the majority. Further detail about Kontor's consecration is given on the webpage of "Apostolic See of St Maximus the Theologian", http://www.partnershipventure.com/bishop/process.htm In 2008, Bishop (as he then was) Agama and his wife Helen were accorded special laying-on of hands by the executive board of the [[J. Delano Ellis#Joint College of African-American Pentecostal Bishops|Joint College of African-American Pentecostal Bishops]], a college led by Archbishop [[J. Delano Ellis]]. In January 2010, Bishop Agama was received into the House of Bishops of the [[Pentecostal Churches of Christ]] (USA), another organisation led by Archbishop Ellis, and was duly granted "apostolic succession" in that House.</ref>, and elevated to the status of archbishop on 19 October 2013 at a ceremony held in [[Southwark Cathedral]], London.<ref>Archbishop Ellis provided a "Consecration Mandate" which was read during the ceremony, and Archbishop Ellis sent an episcopal delegation from USA to London, England. The delegation consisted of Bishop Darryl Woodson (leader of the delegation) and Bishop Benjamin Douglass, both of these being bishops among the Pentecostal Churches of Christ. Bishop Woodson presided at the ceremony of elevation, as chief consecrator, and he was assisted by Bishop Douglass. The Bishop Duke Akamisoko Anglican [[Diocesan]] of Kubwa-Abuja in Nigeria also joined in laying hands on the new archbishop. Bishop Duke Akamisoko is bishop of the Kubwa diocese, a diocese within the province of Abuja, in the Church of Nigeria – Anglican Communion. Bishop David Chaney, leader of the Anglican Communion of Charismatic Churches, an organisation having its administrative office at Fort Worth, Texas, also participated. The website of the Anglican Communion of Charismatic Churches may be found at http://theacoc.org The [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] was officially represented at the Consecration event by [[Bishop of Woolwich]], The Rt Revd Dr [[Michael Ipgrave]] who also represented the [[Anglican Diocese of Southwark|Diocese of Southwark]]. Also present in the Anglican delegation was the retired [[Anglican Diocese of Manchester|Bishop of Manchester]], [[Nigel McCulloch]].</ref> |
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==Positions held== |
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Doye Agama is: |
Doye Agama is: |
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* presiding [[prelate]] and executive director of the [[Apostolic Pastoral Congress]]<ref name=APCwebsite/> |
* presiding [[prelate]] and executive director of the [[Apostolic Pastoral Congress]]<ref name=APCwebsite/> |
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* a co-president of "[[Greater Manchester]] Churches Together". |
* a co-president of "[[Greater Manchester]] Churches Together". |
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==Views== |
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==Interest in the ancient church of the first millennium== |
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Doye Agama has a particular interest in the Christian church of the [[first millennium]] in the [[Atlantic Isles]] (the British Isles) and in the early monastics such as those at Whithorn ([[Candida Casa]]) (St [[Ninian]]) in Galloway, Scotland, at [[Iona]], at [[Lindisfarne]], and the north African Coptic ([[Coptic Church]]) ([[Berber peoples|Berber]]) scholar-monk St [[Hadrian of Canterbury]].<ref>Source: the APC's 2013 ordinal booklet</ref> He has published regarding the matter of how insights from these times can help |
Doye Agama has a particular interest in the Christian church of the [[first millennium]] in the [[Atlantic Isles]] (the British Isles) and in the early monastics such as those at Whithorn ([[Candida Casa]]) (St [[Ninian]]) in Galloway, Scotland, at [[Iona]], at [[Lindisfarne]], and the north African Coptic ([[Coptic Church]]) ([[Berber peoples|Berber]]) scholar-monk St [[Hadrian of Canterbury]].<ref>Source: the APC's 2013 ordinal booklet</ref> He has published regarding the matter of how insights from these times can help people in their personal devotion and prayer life in the 21st century.<ref>See "Works" below on this wikipage, ''Ancient Prayers for Today''</ref> |
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==Church and society comments== |
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Doye Agama has said that recession is nothing new to the black community in the United Kingdom, and that the experience of the majority of the members of the black community over many years has been of hardship and exile.<ref>Report in the magazine "Reform" (monthly magazine of the United Reformed Church, March 2013 edition, "Lent: Going deeper" by Niall Cooper.</ref> |
Doye Agama has said that recession is nothing new to the black community in the United Kingdom, and that the experience of the majority of the members of the black community over many years has been of hardship and exile.<ref>Report in the magazine "Reform" (monthly magazine of the United Reformed Church, March 2013 edition, "Lent: Going deeper" by Niall Cooper.</ref> |
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In May 2013, Doye Agama was one of 53 faith leaders (Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist) who signed a letter to the UK prime minister opposing the then proposed same sex marriage legislation for England and Wales.<ref> |
In May 2013, Doye Agama was one of 53 faith leaders (Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist) who signed a letter to the UK prime minister opposing the then proposed same sex marriage legislation for England and Wales.<ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10092404/Faith-leaders-demand-gay-marriage-rethink.html "Faith leaders demand gay marriage rethink"], James Kirkup, ''Daily Telegraph'' 31 May 2013</ref> |
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In December 2013, Doye Agama commented that Nigerian President [[Goodluck Jonathan]] was steadily yet progressively piloting the Nigerian ship-of-state. The archbishop referred to Mr Jonathan's stewardship of the 2011 elections in Nigeria as having been "record-breaking", those elections having been (according to the archbishop) the freest and fairest ever held in Nigeria.<ref>Report of comments made by Archbishop Agama to President Jonathan at Investiture of President Jonathan as a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Hadrian of Canterbury, of which Order the Archbishop Agama is Abbot. Report from "Premium Times" 2 December 2013 edition author: Talatu Usman.</ref> |
In December 2013, Doye Agama commented that Nigerian President [[Goodluck Jonathan]] was steadily yet progressively piloting the Nigerian ship-of-state. The archbishop referred to Mr Jonathan's stewardship of the 2011 elections in Nigeria as having been "record-breaking", those elections having been (according to the archbishop) the freest and fairest ever held in Nigeria.<ref>Report of comments made by Archbishop Agama to President Jonathan at Investiture of President Jonathan as a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Hadrian of Canterbury, of which Order the Archbishop Agama is Abbot. Report from "Premium Times" 2 December 2013 edition author: Talatu Usman.</ref> |
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==Ordination, episcopal consecration(s) and apostolic succession== |
==Ordination, episcopal consecration(s) and apostolic succession== |
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| ⚫ | Doye Agama was ordained for Christian ministry in 1994, consecrated bishop in 2004<ref>Doge Agama was first consecrated bishop under the hand of Henry Paul Kontor. This was in 2004. Metropolitan Kontor himself had been consecrated in the Greek Orthodox tradition (Old Calendar), in November 2003 by Archbishop Maximos of Athens (Maximos Valliantos), a Greek Orthodox (Old Calendar) prelate. Maximos Valliantos (formerly Metropolitan of Kefalonia) had become leader of the "Auxentian" Greek old calendarists in January 1995, in succession to Auxentios Pastras himself, Auxentios having died (reposed) in 1994. Auxentios Pastras was leader of the "Florinite" Greek old calendarists from 1963 until deposed in 1986. The "Auxentian" old calendarists are the minority who remained loyal to Auxentios after he had been deposed by the majority. Further detail about Kontor's consecration is given on the webpage of "Apostolic See of St Maximus the Theologian", http://www.partnershipventure.com/bishop/process.htm In 2008, Bishop (as he then was) Agama and his wife Helen were accorded special laying-on of hands by the executive board of the [[J. Delano Ellis#Joint College of African-American Pentecostal Bishops|Joint College of African-American Pentecostal Bishops]], a college led by Archbishop [[J. Delano Ellis]]. In January 2010, Bishop Agama was received into the House of Bishops of the [[Pentecostal Churches of Christ]] (USA), another organisation led by Archbishop Ellis, and was duly granted "apostolic succession" in that House.</ref>, and elevated to the status of archbishop on 19 October 2013 at a ceremony held in [[Southwark Cathedral]], London.<ref>Archbishop Ellis provided a "Consecration Mandate" which was read during the ceremony, and Archbishop Ellis sent an episcopal delegation from USA to London, England. The delegation consisted of Bishop Darryl Woodson (leader of the delegation) and Bishop Benjamin Douglass, both of these being bishops among the Pentecostal Churches of Christ. Bishop Woodson presided at the ceremony of elevation, as chief consecrator, and he was assisted by Bishop Douglass. The Bishop Duke Akamisoko Anglican [[Diocesan]] of Kubwa-Abuja in Nigeria also joined in laying hands on the new archbishop. Bishop Duke Akamisoko is bishop of the Kubwa diocese, a diocese within the province of Abuja, in the Church of Nigeria – Anglican Communion. Bishop David Chaney, leader of the Anglican Communion of Charismatic Churches, an organisation having its administrative office at Fort Worth, Texas, also participated. The website of the Anglican Communion of Charismatic Churches may be found at http://theacoc.org The [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] was officially represented at the Consecration event by [[Bishop of Woolwich]], The Rt Revd Dr [[Michael Ipgrave]] who also represented the [[Anglican Diocese of Southwark|Diocese of Southwark]]. Also present in the Anglican delegation was the retired [[Anglican Diocese of Manchester|Bishop of Manchester]], [[Nigel McCulloch]].</ref> |
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| ⚫ | Through its founder, Archbishop Agama, the [[Apostolic Pastoral Congress]] lays claim to a measure of [[apostolic succession]].<ref name=ACstatement>A statement made in the Congress's 2013 ordinal booklet.</ref> The Congress does not consider apostolic succession |
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| ⚫ | Through its founder, Archbishop Agama, the [[Apostolic Pastoral Congress]] lays claim to a measure of [[apostolic succession]].<ref name=ACstatement>A statement made in the Congress's 2013 ordinal booklet.</ref> The Congress does not consider apostolic succession arequisite for salvation, but does consider it a privilege to be in the chain of [[historical episcopate|historical succession]].<ref name=ACstatement/> |
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Many lines or streams of apostolic succession converge in Archbishop Agama. |
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The lines or streams cited in the Congress's 2013 ordinal booklet are as follows: |
Many lines or streams of apostolic succession converge in Archbishop Agama. The lines or streams cited in the Congress's 2013 ordinal booklet are as follows: |
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* through [[Greek Orthodox]] tradition (Old Calendar), via Metropolitan Henry Paul Kontor.<ref>Henry Kontor consecrated Doyé Agama in 2004. Kontor had been consecrated in Athens by Archbishop Maximus. See above.</ref> |
* through [[Greek Orthodox]] tradition (Old Calendar), via Metropolitan Henry Paul Kontor.<ref>Henry Kontor consecrated Doyé Agama in 2004. Kontor had been consecrated in Athens by Archbishop Maximus. See above.</ref> |
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* through [[Wesleyan]]/[[Methodist]] tradition, via [[John Wesley]], [[Thomas Coke (bishop)|Thomas Coke]] (1747–1814) and [[Francis Asbury]] (1745–1816) and two hundred years of Methodism in USA to Carl Edwards Williams and Reuben Timothy Jones who on 17 April 1970 consecrated J. Delano Ellis and thereby passed on their succession to the House of Bishops of the Pentecostal Churches of Christ. Williams and Jones were bishops of the [[Church of God in Christ]]. Both of them were possessors of Holy Orders from the [[Methodist Episcopal Church]] USA, Jones having been ordained by Bishop Frederick Pierce Corson, president of the World Methodist Conference.<ref>The question as to whether the succession through Wesley, Coke and Asbury is an ''episcopal'' succession is a moot point. Wesley was a Church of England clergyman, but he was not a Church of England bishop. Many hold that Wesley was secretly consecrated a bishop in 1763 by [[Erasmus of Arcadia]] when Erasmus was visiting London but that Wesley could not openly announce his episcopal consecration owing to the [[Praemunire|Praemunire Act]] of 1393. Erasmus of Arcadia was the Greek Orthodox bishop of Arcadia in Crete, a jurisdiction under the patriarch of Smyrna. In 1784, Wesley ordained Coke as superintendent of the Methodists in the United States. Coke, however, was already an ordained Church of England clergyman prior to this ceremony. For more information, see wikipage on [[John Wesley#Ordination of ministers|John Wesley]].</ref><ref>Further, the book ''The Bishopric – a handbook on creating episcopacy in the African-American church'' (2003) by J. Delano Ellis does not indicate that Bishops Williams and Jones carried succession ''as bishops'' from the Methodist Episcopal Church. Archbishop Ellis states simply that Williams and Jones were [[Church of God in Christ]] bishops and that they possessed "Holy Orders" from the [[Methodist Episcopal Church]].</ref> |
* through [[Wesleyan]]/[[Methodist]] tradition, via [[John Wesley]], [[Thomas Coke (bishop)|Thomas Coke]] (1747–1814) and [[Francis Asbury]] (1745–1816) and two hundred years of Methodism in USA to Carl Edwards Williams and Reuben Timothy Jones who on 17 April 1970 consecrated J. Delano Ellis and thereby passed on their succession to the House of Bishops of the Pentecostal Churches of Christ. Williams and Jones were bishops of the [[Church of God in Christ]]. Both of them were possessors of Holy Orders from the [[Methodist Episcopal Church]] USA, Jones having been ordained by Bishop Frederick Pierce Corson, president of the World Methodist Conference.<ref>The question as to whether the succession through Wesley, Coke and Asbury is an ''episcopal'' succession is a moot point. Wesley was a Church of England clergyman, but he was not a Church of England bishop. Many hold that Wesley was secretly consecrated a bishop in 1763 by [[Erasmus of Arcadia]] when Erasmus was visiting London but that Wesley could not openly announce his episcopal consecration owing to the [[Praemunire|Praemunire Act]] of 1393. Erasmus of Arcadia was the Greek Orthodox bishop of Arcadia in Crete, a jurisdiction under the patriarch of Smyrna. In 1784, Wesley ordained Coke as superintendent of the Methodists in the United States. Coke, however, was already an ordained Church of England clergyman prior to this ceremony. For more information, see wikipage on [[John Wesley#Ordination of ministers|John Wesley]].</ref><ref>Further, the book ''The Bishopric – a handbook on creating episcopacy in the African-American church'' (2003) by J. Delano Ellis does not indicate that Bishops Williams and Jones carried succession ''as bishops'' from the Methodist Episcopal Church. Archbishop Ellis states simply that Williams and Jones were [[Church of God in Christ]] bishops and that they possessed "Holy Orders" from the [[Methodist Episcopal Church]].</ref> |
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There are other lines or streams of succession |
There are other lines or streams of succession in addition to those that are mentioned in the Congress's 2013 ordinal booklet. For example, one of the bishops in the chain of succession from the Syro-Chaldean tradition (the Rowell-Ellis chain) is [[Hugh George de Willmott Newman]] (Mar Georgius). Numerous lines or streams of succession converge in Newman, thus forming what is, in effect, an [[Hugh George de Willmott Newman#Ecumenical apostolic succession|ecumenical apostolic succession]]. |
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For example, one of the numerous lines of succession that could be cited as converging in Newman (and thus in Archbishop Agama) is a line via [[Gerardus Gul]] of the "[[Old Catholic]]" [[Union of Utrecht]].<ref>There is a path from Gul to Newman, via Johann Kowalski (consecrated by Gul on 5 October 1909) and Marc Marie Paul Fatome (consecrated by Kowalski on 4 September 1938). Kowalski perished in May 1942 in a Second World War camp, either Hartheim Castle or Dachau. (NOTE: There is also a second or parallel path from Gul to Newman via [[Arnold Harris Mathew]]. Gul consecrated Mathew on 28 April 1908. There is a dispute or question over the validity of this consecration. However, the Kowalski line stands independently of Mathew, and thus there is a succession from Gul without relying on Mathew at all. The dispute or question is over whether (in 1908) Mathew obtained consecration from Gul by giving Gul misleading information. A letter published in June 1908 exonerates Mathew. Mathew died in December 1919. Gul died in February 1920. In April 1920, the Union of Utrecht's "International Catholic Bishops' Conference" declared that Mathew had been in bad faith when he was consecrated by Gul in 1908).</ref> A further example is that there is a line of succession via Newman from Church of England archbishops of Canterbury (and therefore stretching back in English history at least as far back as St [[Augustine of Canterbury]] (who arrived at Canterbury in 597).<ref>The line from archbishops of Canterbury flows via Scottish bishops and then north American bishops and bishops of the Reformed Episcopal Church in north America.</ref> |
For example, one of the numerous lines of succession that could be cited as converging in Newman (and thus in Archbishop Agama) is a line via [[Gerardus Gul]] of the "[[Old Catholic]]" [[Union of Utrecht]].<ref>There is a path from Gul to Newman, via Johann Kowalski (consecrated by Gul on 5 October 1909) and Marc Marie Paul Fatome (consecrated by Kowalski on 4 September 1938). Kowalski perished in May 1942 in a Second World War camp, either Hartheim Castle or Dachau. (NOTE: There is also a second or parallel path from Gul to Newman via [[Arnold Harris Mathew]]. Gul consecrated Mathew on 28 April 1908. There is a dispute or question over the validity of this consecration. However, the Kowalski line stands independently of Mathew, and thus there is a succession from Gul without relying on Mathew at all. The dispute or question is over whether (in 1908) Mathew obtained consecration from Gul by giving Gul misleading information. A letter published in June 1908 exonerates Mathew. Mathew died in December 1919. Gul died in February 1920. In April 1920, the Union of Utrecht's "International Catholic Bishops' Conference" declared that Mathew had been in bad faith when he was consecrated by Gul in 1908).</ref> A further example is that there is a line of succession via Newman from Church of England archbishops of Canterbury (and therefore stretching back in English history at least as far back as St [[Augustine of Canterbury]] (who arrived at Canterbury in 597).<ref>The line from archbishops of Canterbury flows via Scottish bishops and then north American bishops and bishops of the Reformed Episcopal Church in north America.</ref> |
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Doyé Teido Agama is a Christian pastor within the Pentecostal Holiness movement. He is based in the United Kingdom, but has close links with the Federal Republic of Nigeria.[1]
Career
Doye Agama was ordained for Christian ministry in 1994, consecrated bishop in 2004[2], and elevated to the status of archbishop on 19 October 2013 at a ceremony held in Southwark Cathedral, London.[3]
Doye Agama is:
- presiding prelate and executive director of the Apostolic Pastoral Congress[1]
- senior pastor of the "Christian Way of Life" group of churches,[4]
- a member of the board of directors/trustees of England's national ecumenical instrument, Churches Together in England[5]
- the moderator (2012 - 2015) of the Forum of Churches Together in England
- a member of Churches Together in England's reference group for minority ethnic Christian affairs (MECA-CTE)
- a co-president of "Greater Manchester Churches Together".
Views
Doye Agama has a particular interest in the Christian church of the first millennium in the Atlantic Isles (the British Isles) and in the early monastics such as those at Whithorn (Candida Casa) (St Ninian) in Galloway, Scotland, at Iona, at Lindisfarne, and the north African Coptic (Coptic Church) (Berber) scholar-monk St Hadrian of Canterbury.[6] He has published regarding the matter of how insights from these times can help people in their personal devotion and prayer life in the 21st century.[7]
Doye Agama has said that recession is nothing new to the black community in the United Kingdom, and that the experience of the majority of the members of the black community over many years has been of hardship and exile.[8]
In May 2013, Doye Agama was one of 53 faith leaders (Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist) who signed a letter to the UK prime minister opposing the then proposed same sex marriage legislation for England and Wales.[9]
In December 2013, Doye Agama commented that Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan was steadily yet progressively piloting the Nigerian ship-of-state. The archbishop referred to Mr Jonathan's stewardship of the 2011 elections in Nigeria as having been "record-breaking", those elections having been (according to the archbishop) the freest and fairest ever held in Nigeria.[10]
Ordination, episcopal consecration(s) and apostolic succession
Through its founder, Archbishop Agama, the Apostolic Pastoral Congress lays claim to a measure of apostolic succession.[11] The Congress does not consider apostolic succession arequisite for salvation, but does consider it a privilege to be in the chain of historical succession.[11]
Many lines or streams of apostolic succession converge in Archbishop Agama. The lines or streams cited in the Congress's 2013 ordinal booklet are as follows:
- through Greek Orthodox tradition (Old Calendar), via Metropolitan Henry Paul Kontor.[12]
- through Wesleyan/Methodist tradition, via John Wesley, Thomas Coke (1747–1814) and Francis Asbury (1745–1816) and two hundred years of Methodism in USA to Carl Edwards Williams and Reuben Timothy Jones who on 17 April 1970 consecrated J. Delano Ellis and thereby passed on their succession to the House of Bishops of the Pentecostal Churches of Christ. Williams and Jones were bishops of the Church of God in Christ. Both of them were possessors of Holy Orders from the Methodist Episcopal Church USA, Jones having been ordained by Bishop Frederick Pierce Corson, president of the World Methodist Conference.[15][16]
There are other lines or streams of succession in addition to those that are mentioned in the Congress's 2013 ordinal booklet. For example, one of the bishops in the chain of succession from the Syro-Chaldean tradition (the Rowell-Ellis chain) is Hugh George de Willmott Newman (Mar Georgius). Numerous lines or streams of succession converge in Newman, thus forming what is, in effect, an ecumenical apostolic succession.
For example, one of the numerous lines of succession that could be cited as converging in Newman (and thus in Archbishop Agama) is a line via Gerardus Gul of the "Old Catholic" Union of Utrecht.[17] A further example is that there is a line of succession via Newman from Church of England archbishops of Canterbury (and therefore stretching back in English history at least as far back as St Augustine of Canterbury (who arrived at Canterbury in 597).[18]
Further, some of the other bishops in the Rowell-Ellis chain held other consecrations. One such example is a line of succession from Archbishop Makarios (Makarios III) (lived 1913–1977) (Church of Cyprus[19]). [20][21][22]
Styles of address
Doyé Agama, Esqr (until 1994)
The Revd Doyé Agama (1994 to 2004)
The Right Revd Doyé Agama (or, less formally, Bishop Doyé Agama) (2004 to October 2013)
The Most Revd Doyé Agama (or, less formally, Archbishop Doyé Agama) (from October 2013).
Published works
- Agama, DT Ancient Prayers For Today, 2011 Chakam Limited, Manchester, England (192 pages) ISBN 978-0-9568126-0-5
- Agama, DT A Word For Your Now, 2012 Chakam Publishing, Manchester, England (a booklet of 70 small pages) ISBN 978-0-9568126-1-2
References
- ^ a b Apostolic Pastoral Congress
- ^ Doge Agama was first consecrated bishop under the hand of Henry Paul Kontor. This was in 2004. Metropolitan Kontor himself had been consecrated in the Greek Orthodox tradition (Old Calendar), in November 2003 by Archbishop Maximos of Athens (Maximos Valliantos), a Greek Orthodox (Old Calendar) prelate. Maximos Valliantos (formerly Metropolitan of Kefalonia) had become leader of the "Auxentian" Greek old calendarists in January 1995, in succession to Auxentios Pastras himself, Auxentios having died (reposed) in 1994. Auxentios Pastras was leader of the "Florinite" Greek old calendarists from 1963 until deposed in 1986. The "Auxentian" old calendarists are the minority who remained loyal to Auxentios after he had been deposed by the majority. Further detail about Kontor's consecration is given on the webpage of "Apostolic See of St Maximus the Theologian", http://www.partnershipventure.com/bishop/process.htm In 2008, Bishop (as he then was) Agama and his wife Helen were accorded special laying-on of hands by the executive board of the Joint College of African-American Pentecostal Bishops, a college led by Archbishop J. Delano Ellis. In January 2010, Bishop Agama was received into the House of Bishops of the Pentecostal Churches of Christ (USA), another organisation led by Archbishop Ellis, and was duly granted "apostolic succession" in that House.
- ^ Archbishop Ellis provided a "Consecration Mandate" which was read during the ceremony, and Archbishop Ellis sent an episcopal delegation from USA to London, England. The delegation consisted of Bishop Darryl Woodson (leader of the delegation) and Bishop Benjamin Douglass, both of these being bishops among the Pentecostal Churches of Christ. Bishop Woodson presided at the ceremony of elevation, as chief consecrator, and he was assisted by Bishop Douglass. The Bishop Duke Akamisoko Anglican Diocesan of Kubwa-Abuja in Nigeria also joined in laying hands on the new archbishop. Bishop Duke Akamisoko is bishop of the Kubwa diocese, a diocese within the province of Abuja, in the Church of Nigeria – Anglican Communion. Bishop David Chaney, leader of the Anglican Communion of Charismatic Churches, an organisation having its administrative office at Fort Worth, Texas, also participated. The website of the Anglican Communion of Charismatic Churches may be found at http://theacoc.org The Archbishop of Canterbury was officially represented at the Consecration event by Bishop of Woolwich, The Rt Revd Dr Michael Ipgrave who also represented the Diocese of Southwark. Also present in the Anglican delegation was the retired Bishop of Manchester, Nigel McCulloch.
- ^ The website of the principal congregation of the Christian Way of Life group of churches http://wayoflifechurch.org.uk
- ^ Charity Commission website; charity search facility; names of trustees
- ^ Source: the APC's 2013 ordinal booklet
- ^ See "Works" below on this wikipage, Ancient Prayers for Today
- ^ Report in the magazine "Reform" (monthly magazine of the United Reformed Church, March 2013 edition, "Lent: Going deeper" by Niall Cooper.
- ^ "Faith leaders demand gay marriage rethink", James Kirkup, Daily Telegraph 31 May 2013
- ^ Report of comments made by Archbishop Agama to President Jonathan at Investiture of President Jonathan as a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Hadrian of Canterbury, of which Order the Archbishop Agama is Abbot. Report from "Premium Times" 2 December 2013 edition author: Talatu Usman.
- ^ a b A statement made in the Congress's 2013 ordinal booklet.
- ^ Henry Kontor consecrated Doyé Agama in 2004. Kontor had been consecrated in Athens by Archbishop Maximus. See above.
- ^ This succession derives through Moran Mar Rowell Shimun XVIII (Shem'un XVIII Rubil) (sometimes cited as XX), patriarch of Selucia-Ctesiphon and Catholicos of the East (reigned 1860 to 1903).
- ^ The line of succession from Mar Rowell to Archbishop Agama is as follows: On 17 December 1862 Moran Mar Rowell Shimun XVIII consecrated Anthony Thondanatt (Mar Abdisho Antonius) who on 24 July 1899 consecrated Luis Mariano Soares (Mar Basilius) who on 30 November 1902 consecrated Ulric Vernon Herford (Mar Jacobus) who on 2 February 1925 consecrated William Stanley McBean Knight (Mar Paulos) who on 30 October 1931 consecrated Dr Hedley Coward Bartlett (Mar Hedley) who on 20 May 1945 consecrated Hugh George de Willmott Newman (Mar Georgius) who on 13 April 1952 consecrated Charles Dennis Boltwood who on 3 May 1959 consecrated John Marion Stanley (Mar Yokhannan) who on 31 October 1976 was a co-consecrator of Bertram Schlossberg (Mar Uzziah Bar Evyon) whose jurisdiction, in 1995, entered into collegial fellowship with Bishop J. Delano Ellis and the jurisdiction led by Bishop Ellis (then called United Pentecostal Churches of Christ). Robert Woodward Burgess (a bishop consecrated by Schlossberg, and acting under authority of a mandate issued by Schlossberg) imparted the Schlossberg-Burgess succession to the bishops of the United Pentecostal Churches of Christ, the organization from which Pentecostal Churches of Christ has emerged. Further, on 5 March 1969, Stanley received Bishop James Andrew Gaines (Mar Jacobus) into his jurisdiction. Archbishop Stanley subsequently elevated Gaines to archbishop. Gaines was chief consecrator on 31 October 1976 when (as stated above) Stanley assisted as consecrator at Schlossberg's consecration. In 2010, Bishop Agama was received into the House of Bishops of Pentecostal Churches of Christ and was granted apostolic succession in that House. This was further reinforced on 19 October 2013 at the ceremony of elevation to archbishop in that two Pentecostal Churches of Christ bishops (Bishops Woodson and Douglass) participated as co-consecrators and they were acting under a mandate issued by Archbishop Ellis.
- ^ The question as to whether the succession through Wesley, Coke and Asbury is an episcopal succession is a moot point. Wesley was a Church of England clergyman, but he was not a Church of England bishop. Many hold that Wesley was secretly consecrated a bishop in 1763 by Erasmus of Arcadia when Erasmus was visiting London but that Wesley could not openly announce his episcopal consecration owing to the Praemunire Act of 1393. Erasmus of Arcadia was the Greek Orthodox bishop of Arcadia in Crete, a jurisdiction under the patriarch of Smyrna. In 1784, Wesley ordained Coke as superintendent of the Methodists in the United States. Coke, however, was already an ordained Church of England clergyman prior to this ceremony. For more information, see wikipage on John Wesley.
- ^ Further, the book The Bishopric – a handbook on creating episcopacy in the African-American church (2003) by J. Delano Ellis does not indicate that Bishops Williams and Jones carried succession as bishops from the Methodist Episcopal Church. Archbishop Ellis states simply that Williams and Jones were Church of God in Christ bishops and that they possessed "Holy Orders" from the Methodist Episcopal Church.
- ^ There is a path from Gul to Newman, via Johann Kowalski (consecrated by Gul on 5 October 1909) and Marc Marie Paul Fatome (consecrated by Kowalski on 4 September 1938). Kowalski perished in May 1942 in a Second World War camp, either Hartheim Castle or Dachau. (NOTE: There is also a second or parallel path from Gul to Newman via Arnold Harris Mathew. Gul consecrated Mathew on 28 April 1908. There is a dispute or question over the validity of this consecration. However, the Kowalski line stands independently of Mathew, and thus there is a succession from Gul without relying on Mathew at all. The dispute or question is over whether (in 1908) Mathew obtained consecration from Gul by giving Gul misleading information. A letter published in June 1908 exonerates Mathew. Mathew died in December 1919. Gul died in February 1920. In April 1920, the Union of Utrecht's "International Catholic Bishops' Conference" declared that Mathew had been in bad faith when he was consecrated by Gul in 1908).
- ^ The line from archbishops of Canterbury flows via Scottish bishops and then north American bishops and bishops of the Reformed Episcopal Church in north America.
- ^ The Church of Cyprus is an autocephalous Greek church within the Orthodox tradition, part of the Eastern Orthodox Church and in full communion with the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
- ^ Makarios was president of Cyprus from 1960 until his sudden death in 1977 (except for a short period between July and December 1974 during which Makarios was exiled following a military coup). For much of the third quarter of the 20th century, Makarios III was a prominent figure in world news.
- ^ The line of succession from Makarios III to Archbishop Agama is as follows: Makarios III (who lived 1913–1977) consecrated Theoklitos Kantaris (Greek Orthodox archdiocese of New York (Old Calendar)) who on 30 March 1965 elevated Walter Myron Propheta to the status of archbishop who on 30 May 1965 consecrated James Andrew Gaines (Mar Jacobus) who on 31 October 1976 consecrated Bertram Schlossberg (Mar Uzziah Ben Evyon) whose jurisdiction in 1995 entered into collegial fellowship with Bishop J. Delano Ellis and the jurisdiction led by Bishop Ellis (then called United Pentecostal Churches of Christ). In 2010, Archbishop Agama was received into the House of Bishops of Pentecostal Churches of Christ (evolved from United Pentecostal churches of Christ) and was granted apostolic succession in that House. This was further reinforced on 19 October 2013 at a ceremony of elevation to archbishop in that two Pentecostal Churches of Christ bishops (Bishop Darryl Woodson and Bishop Benjamin Douglass) participated as co-consecrators and they were acting under a mandate issued by Archbishop Ellis.
- ^ Russian/Ukrainian Orthodox lines also converge in Archbishop Agama from Gaines who (in 1965) had been consecrated in that tradition. A Slavonic Orthodox line of succession comes in via William Andrew Prazsky and Anthony Prazsky who in 1976 participated as co-consecrators in Schlossberg's consecration. This Slavonic succession comes via Gregorious IV (Haddad) (reigned 1906–1928), Melkite Greek Catholic patriarch, who in 1913 consecrated Metropolitan Archbishop Dionisiy Valedynsky who in 1932 consecrated Metropolitan Archbishop Poukarp Sikorsky who in 1942 consecrated Metropolitan Archbishop Nikanor Abramovych who also in 1942 consecrated Metropolitan Archbishop Hryhoriy Ohiychuk (metropolitan archbishop of the Patriarchal Throne of Kiev and All Russia-Ukraine in Exile) who in 1969 consecrated Walter Andrew Prazsky and Anthony Prazsky.