Ancient foundation
The succession is understood within the episcopal order of the undivided Church and its historic patriarchal Sees.
Episcopal lineage archive
The recorded episcopal inheritance of His Most Eminence Serene Highness Norman Cardinal Dutton.
Episcopal inheritance
Cardinal Dutton’s succession archive records the episcopal lines received through his 1999 consecration by Bishop Peter A. Compton-Caputo.
In Apostolic Christianity, bishops transmit episcopal ministry through consecration by prayer and the laying on of hands. Cardinal Dutton’s recorded inheritance brought together lines associated with the ancient Sees and their later Roman, Anglican, Old Catholic, and Eastern Christian continuities.
The registers below preserve the names and dates contained in Cardinal Dutton’s ecclesiastical archive, arranged in expandable sections for easier study.

Historical context
The succession is understood within the episcopal order of the undivided Church and its historic patriarchal Sees.
Roman, Anglican, Old Catholic, and related lines entered the modern record through successive consecrations and ecclesial relationships.
Antiochian, Russian, Albanian, Coptic, Syrian, Greek, and Melkite inheritances form part of the collected register.
The lines converge through Bishop Peter A. Compton-Caputo in the consecration of Norman Sydney Dutton in 1999.
Succession archive
Select a line to open its complete register. Dates marked “c.” indicate the recorded year of episcopal consecration.