Most Reverend Terence R. Fulham

OUR LADY OF FATIMA

CATHOLIC CHURCH

Background to the Consecration

The Concise Lineage	Letter Offering Episcopal Consecration dated February 14 2003
Bishop Carlos Duarte-Costa 1888 – 1961 Ordained a priest April 1, 1911 by Cardinal Albuquerque-Cavalcanti , Bishop of Botucatu July 4, 1924, resigned his see and named Titular Bishop of Maura September 22, 1937. He died in 1961. Bishop Luis Fernando Castillo-Méndez (b. in 1922) was ordained a Roman Catholic priest on August 10,1944 at Solsona, Spain, by Msgr. Valentín Comellas-Santamaria and consecrated a bishop on May 3, 1948 by Bishop Carlos Duarte Costa, former Titular Bishop of Maura.. Bishop Castillo-Mendez was one of 8 priests raised to the episcopacy by Bishop Duarte-Costa. Of the eight men that Bishop Duarte-Costa raised to the episcopate before his death in 1961, two were regularized as bishops under the pontificates of John XXIII and Paul VI: Salomon Ferraz as auxiliary bishop of Sao Paulo, Brazil, the other Orlando Arce Moia was named auxiliary bishop of Madrid, Spain. Clearly their status as bishops was recognized by Rome.
	Certificate dated February 18 2003 stating the intention to give (receive) Roman Catholic orders
Bishop Harold Norwood (b. in 1963) Began his training with the Priestly Society of St Pius X in Ecône, Switzerland and was later ordained a priest by Bishop Pierre Sallé, (a bishop of the apostolic succession of Archbishop Pierre-Martin Ngo-Dinh-Thuc). Because Bishop Sallé (through an oversight) omitted to give a certificate of priestly ordination, and although Bishop Sallé’s episcopal register attested to the fact of the ordination, Bishop Norwood was later ordained sub conditione a priest by Luís Fernando Castillo-Méndez, and consecrated a bishop on January 21, 1990 at Brasilia, Brazil, by Bishop Luís Fernando Castillo-Méndez, assisted by Bishop Justo Roque González and by Bishop Sebastião Vilela, Bishop John Simmons 1945 - 2003 Ordained a priest by Bishop Norwood and consecrated a bishop on September 4 1993 at Ashford, England, by Bishop Norwood. Bishop Simmons was pastor of a Traditional Catholic Church in Penge, London, England dedicated to Our Lord as the Good Shepherd and to the Blessed Mother. He died suddenly in June 2003 whilst undergoing emergency heart surgery for an aortic aneurysm.