IN MEMORIAM 9 January 1932 - 25 October 1998
His Grace Bishop Caudill of perpetual memory was born in South Charleston, West Virginia, United States. A Bishop and educator, his educational accomplishments included the degrees of Bachelor of Science (California College), Licentiate of Theology (University of Saskatchewan), Doctor of Philosophy (St. Andrew's College), and Doctor of Sacred Theology from St. George Theological Seminary (now Pontifical Georgian College). His honours included the distinction of Knight Commander of the Order of St. Stanislaus. His
Grace was consecrated by
Macario V. Ga, Supreme Pontiff (Bishop) of the Philippine Independent
Church, and Bishops Frank
Benning and John Hamers. 21 October 1993, Holy Cross Polish National
Catholic Church,
Brooklyn, New York. The remnants of his See, the Diocese of
the Southwest, after suffering a schism, became part of the Apostolic
Communion of Anglican Churches in 2008. This included the Very Rev.
Dean John Mark Vornholt, who returned in 2009, recognizing it as the
authentic continuation of the Diocese of the Southwest in which he had
previously served under Bishop Caudill. The new Bishop of the Southwest
was the Vicar-General of the Apostolic Communion of Anglican Churches. He was subsequently succeeded by H.H. Papa Rutherford
I of Rome-Ruthenia (then Archbishop Johnson), at which point it became a Metropolitan See. Thereafter its
territorial
boundaries changed as it became the Coadjutorship of Rome and
Apostolic See of the Gallo-Russo-Byzantine Catholicate and Anglican
Patriarchate of Rome.
The coat of arms of Bishop Caudill's See, the Diocese of the Southwest,
later became the coat of arms of the Roman Coadjutorship and the Most Holy Patriarchal Basilica of Santa Maria Antiqua in Rome as that See evolved over the years.
SACRISTY PRAYER AFTER CELEBRATING THE HOLY MASS Written by Rt. Rev. Edwin Caudill, Bishop of the Southwest FINISHED
and perfected, O Lord our Christ, so far as in us lieth, is the mystery
of thy dispensation. We have kept the memorial of thy death; we have
celebrated thy resurrection and glorious ascension. Fill us now with
thine own unending life, through the grace of God, + Father, Son, and
Holy Spirit. Amen. From the Stephenian Archives (the archives of the Apostolic See of the Imperial Roman Church) and the Pontifical Apostolic Library, several important documents pertaining to Bishop Caudill are shared below in the interest of preservation of history and legacy.
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