Catholicate of the West

Not to be confused with Catholic Apostolic Church.

The Catholicate of the West was an Independent Western Rite Orthodox denomination in 1944, following a council between prelates from the Ancient British Church, the British Orthodox Catholic Church, the Apostolic Episcopal Church, the Old Catholic Orthodox Church, the Order of Holy Wisdom, and the Order of Antioch. In 1994, the Catholicate of the West ceased to exist, becoming the British Orthodox Church under the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria.

The denomination was also known as the Catholic Apostolic Church, the Catholicate of the West (Catholic Apostolic Church), The United Orthodox Catholic Rite, The Celtic Catholic Church, the Patriarchate of Glastonbury, The Western Orthodox Catholic Church, and the Orthodox Church of the British Isles.

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