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 | | Toward this end, Bishop Mathew consecrated Austrian nobleman, Rudolph Francis Edward St. Patrick Alphonsus Ghislain de Gramont Hamilton de Lorraine-Brabant, Prince de Landes Berghes et de Rache, Duc de St. Winock, on June 29, 1913 for work in Scotland. |
 | | Bishop de Landes Berghes, in spite of great difficulty and isolation from the Utrecht Union of Churches, due to Bishop Mathew withdrawing from the Union, was able to plant the roots of an independent expression of Catholicism in |
 | | He was consecrated a bishop by Mar Julius, Metropolitan of the Independent Catholic Church of Ceylon, Goa and India, who was assisted by Mar Paul Athanasius, Bishop of Kottayam and Mar Gregorius Geevargheese, Bishop of Niranam (who was later canonized a Saint by the Malankaran Orthodox Syrian Church of India). |
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