Editing Ancient British Church (section)

==Foundation==

[[Jules Ferrette]] was ordained a [[Roman Catholic]] priest in 1855. The next year, he left the Roman Catholic Church and became a Presbyterian minister and missionary.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Series|first=Evangelical Christendom:Its State and Prospects VOL III-New|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7QYFAAAAQAAJ&dq=%22jules+ferrette%22+%22presbyterian%22&pg=PA584|title=Evangelical Christendom:Its State and Prospects VOL.III-New Series|date=1862|pages=584|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Pruter|first=Karl|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l79xM4Cxde0C&dq=%22jules+ferrette%22+%22presbyterian%22&pg=PA38|title=The Old Catholic Church, Third Edition|date=2006-10-01|publisher=Wildside Press LLC|isbn=978-0-912134-41-3|pages=38|language=en|author-link=Karl Pruter}}</ref><ref name=":1" />{{Rp|pages=34}} He worked for the [[Irish Presbyterian Mission]] in [[Damascus]] from 1858 to 1865, and assisted [[Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava|Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood]]'s Mission to the poor Christians of [[Mount Lebanon]] from 1860 to 1862.<ref name=":1" />{{Rp|pages=34}} In 1866, he came back from Damascus to England, and claimed he had been [[Episcopal consecration|ordained bishop]] "Mar Julius, Bishop of [[Iona]]" by a bishop of the [[Syriac Orthodox Church|Syrian Jacobite Church]], [[Ignatius Peter IV|Mar Bedros]] of [[Emesa]]. No proof of Ferrette's episcopal consecration exists, despite Ferrette showing a printed document "which he claimed was a translation [in English] of his certificate of consecration, dated 22 June 1866 ([[Old Style and New Style dates|Old Style]])."<ref name="Pearson20074">{{cite book|last=Pearson|first=Joanne|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Au_paUclEZkC&pg=PA166|title=Wicca and the Christian Heritage: ritual, sex and magic|date=27 June 2007|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-415-25413-7|pages=34|access-date=9 November 2012}}</ref>

Allegedly, in [[Oxfordshire]] some time after 1858, [[Richard Williams Morgan]], an [[Anglican]] priest, was [[Conditional sacrament|conditionally]] "baptised, confirmed, ordained and consecrated" Patriarch of the Ancient British Church by Ferrette, and given by him the full title Mar Pelagius I, Hierarch of Caerleon-on-Usk.<ref name="Pearson20072">{{cite book|last=Pearson|first=Joanne|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Au_paUclEZkC&pg=PA166|title=Wicca and the Christian Heritage: ritual, sex and magic|date=27 June 2007|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-415-25413-7|pages=34–6|access-date=9 November 2012}}</ref> Jules Ferrette died in 1903.<ref name="Pearson20074" />