Wladimir Sokolovsky and the Old Catholics of Wisconsin

[Archimandrit Nilos]

Wladimir Sokolovsky and the Wisconsin Old Catholics under the leadership of the episcopus vagans (=Bishop errant) Joseph René Vilatte 1891-1892. Also here we are observing relations with "Old Catholics" and the hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church on the path of a true confession of faith.http://orthodoxhistory.org/tag/vladimir-sokolovsky/

[Revnitel]

There was hope to create a Western Orthodox Church out of them and various High Church Anglicans and Lutherans, etc. Never panned out. Too many historical and personal issues intervened.

[Matthew]

How sad! After Bp Vladimir of San Francisco received him and his parish, he did this:

But the parish priest, Vilatte, wasn’t there. He was in Sri Lanka (Ceylon), awaiting his long-sought consecration to the episcopate. He had found a taker in the ancient Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, the non-Chalcedonian church in India. Vilatte never seems to have considered himself to be a Malankara Syrian Orthodox; he was interested in their apostolic succession, not their actual Church.

[Archimandrit Nilos]

Yes, unfortunately.