Hugh George de Willmott Newman
Hugh George de Willmott Newman (17 January 1905 – 28 February 1979) was an Independent Catholic or independent Old Catholic bishop. He was known religiously as Mar Georgius I and bore the titles, among others, of Patriarch of Glastonbury, Catholicos of the West, and sixth British Patriarch. He was the head of the Catholicate of the West from when he became a bishop, in 1944, until his death in 1979.
His Sacred Beatitude Mar Georgius | |
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| Patriarch of Glastonbury, Catholicos of the West, and sixth British Patriarch | |
Hugh George de Willmott Newman, unknown date (image already published in 1964 in Anson, Peter F. (2006) [1964]. "The Catholicate of the West". Bishops at Large. Independent Catholic Heritage. Apocryphile press. page between p. 444 and 445.) | |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 23 October 1938 by James Columba McFall |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 17 January 1905 London, England |
| Died | 28 February 1979 (aged 74) |
| Denomination | Christianity |
| Spouse | Lola Ina del Carpio Barnardo |
| Occupation | Bishop |
Newman was first consecrated bishop by William Bernard Crow, the leader of the Order of Holy Wisdom, in 1944. Willmott Newman is notable for having subsequently undergone numerous ceremonies of reconsecration, thereby laying claim to numerous different lines of historic apostolic succession. Over a ten-year period between 1944 and 1955, there were nine (or ten: 451–2 ) ceremonies in each of which Newman and another bishop would reconsecrate each other to give each the other's lines of apostolic succession.