Hubert Augustus Rogers was an English-line Old Catholic leader who served as archbishop

Archbishop

An archbishop is a bishop of higher rank, but not of higher sacramental order above that of the three orders of deacon, priest , and bishop...

 of New York

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 of the North American Old Roman Catholic Church.

On July 30, 1942, Archbishop Carmel Henry Carfora

Carmel Henry Carfora

Carmel Henry Carfora , raised Roman Catholic in his native Naples, Italy, was a co-founder and leader of the North American Old Roman Catholic Church...

 consecrated Hubert A. Rogers. Rogers functioned as Carfora’s co-adjutor and upon the death of Carfora in 1958, Rogers became the archbishop of the North American Old Roman Catholic Church.

In 1969, Rogers consecrated Daniel Q. Brown

Daniel Q. Brown

Daniel Quilter Brown is an American Old Roman Catholic bishop. He was a Roman Catholic layman who left the Catholic Church in the late 1960s because he was dissatisfied with the reforms of the Second Vatican Council. Brown was consecrated a bishop in 1969 by Hubert A. Rogers.In 1971 he consecrated...

 to the episcopacy, Brown would later re-convert to Roman Catholicism in its traditionalist factions

Traditionalist Catholic

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.