The founding bishops of the Liberal Catholic churches were J. I. Wedgwood of the Wedgwood China family and the Theosophist Charles Webster Leadbeater.
The Right Reverend James Ingall Wedgwood
Wedgwood
Bishops Wedgwood, Leadbeater and Mazel, plus a furry friend, Sydney, 1917. (www.cwlworld.info)
Leadbeater in his room at The Manor, Sydney. (www.cwlworld.info)
CW Leadbeater
The Consecration of The Right Reverend James Ingall Wedgwood, 1916.
Leadbeater's masonic and episcopal regalia on display during his Requiem Eucharist, Perth, 4 March 1934. (www.cwlworld.info)
The Revd. Harold Morton celebrates the Requiem Eucharist for Bishop Leadbeater, Perth, 4 March 1934. (www.cwlworld.info)
The Right Reverend James Ingall Wedgwood and
CW Leadbeater
Wedgwood
(seated, centre, back row)
Bishop Arnold Mathew being ordained a bishop by Old Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht Gerardus Gul at St. Gertrude's Cathedral, in Utrecht, on 28 April 1908