Richard Arthur Marchenna (May 17, 1900 - September 2, 1982), was an Old Catholic bishop consecrated by 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...

 as his Suffragan Bishop of Newark with delegated ordinary authority over congregations in New Jersey

New Jersey

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 and New York

New York

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. Subsequent to Archbishop Carfora's death in 1958, Marchenna was among at least five of his bishops who claimed to be rightful successors to the primacy of the North American Old Roman Catholic Church

Old Roman Catholic Church in North America

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. For several years prior to his death, he made his residence at St. Dominic's Church in Brooklyn

Brooklyn

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, where he died.

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