Order of Corporate Reunion
Christian, Ecumenical, and Fraternal Order of Corporate Reunion | |
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| Established | 1877 |
| Founder | Frederick George Lee, Thomas Wimberley Mossman, John Thomas Seccombe |
| Type | Ecumenical association |
| Purpose | Reordination |
| Headquarters | United Kingdom |
Primate | Disputed |
Key people | |
| Secessions | Order of Corporate Reunion (1911-1912) Order of Corporate Reunion (1998) Order of Corporate Reunion (2016) Association for the Promotion of the Unity of Christendom (2023) |
The Order of Corporate Reunion (OCR), officially the Christian, Ecumenical, and Fraternal Order of Corporate Reunion, was an ecumenical association of clergy and laity of Anglican origin. The OCR was initially founded by Frederick George Lee, Thomas Wimberley Mossman, and John Thomas Seccombe between 1874-1877 in London.: 23 Established as an Anglo-Papalist society to continue the work of the Association for the Promotion of the Unity of Christendom, its founders sought to restore an apostolic succession recognized by the Catholic Church through reordinations as a means for reunion.
The founders of the Order of Corporate Reunion claimed to have been consecrated as bishops by Roman Catholic bishops. However, they did not state in public the names of their consecrators. Over a century after their deaths it was revealed that cardinals Luigi Nazari di Calabiana, Domenico Agostini, and Vincenzo Moretti allegedly consecrated Lee and Mossman.: 22
Following the deaths of its founders, the order fell dormant until it was revived between 1911-1912 by Arnold Harris Mathew.: 24–26 Prominent members and leaders of the revived order and its successive organizations were believed to have included Hugh George de Willmott Newman and Peter Paul Brennan.