Certificate of Priestly Ordination of Robert Mary Clement

Certificate of Priestly Ordination of Robert Mary Clement

This document certifies the ordination of Robert Mary Clement to the sacred order of the priesthood on 7 August 1948. Written in Latin, the certificate was issued under the authority of Bishop William H. F. Brothers, Archbishop of the Old Catholic Church in North America. The text attests that Clement was examined, found qualified according to ecclesiastical requirements, and promoted to the priesthood ad titulum missionis (for missionary service). The certificate was issued at Woodstock, New York, on 8 August 1948 and bears the signatures of the ordaining prelate and ecclesiastical officials together with an embossed church seal. The document provides primary evidence of Clement's clerical status, ordination date, ordaining jurisdiction, and apostolic lineage within the independent Catholic movement in mid-twentieth-century North America.

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