One of the strangest tales in this whole topic of "independent bishops" has to be that of the man still living in Belgium who claims that he was consecrated a bishop in 1950 in a ceremony conducted in Christ Church, Brussels, Belgium, by three then very prominent Roman Catholic hierarchs (viz., the retired French Canadian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Montréal and two Roman Catholic Eastern Rite patriarchs) for an organization named "The Union of Churches and the World Missions." This is a story begging to be told.

• 08/15/1939 Joseph Charbonneau (b. in 1892; d. in 1959).
  Ordained a Roman Catholic priest on 06/24/1916 at xxxxx by Msgr. xxxxx, Bishop of xxxxx.
  Consecratated a Roman Catholic bishop on 08/15/1939 at Ottawa, Canada, by Msgr. Guillaume-Joseph Forbes, Archbishop of Ottawa, Canada, assisted by Msgr. Emile Velle, P.S.S., Titular Bishop of Arcadiopolis, and by Msgr. Louis Rheaume, O.M.I., Bishop of Timmins, Ontario, Canada.
  Msgr. Charbonneau was Bishop of Hearst, 1939-1940, Titular Archbishop of Amorium and Coadjutor Archbishop of Montréal, Québec, Canada in 1940, Archbishop of Montréal, Québec, Canada, 1940-1950 (when he resigned "for reasons of health"), and Titular Archbishop of Bosporus, 1950-1959.
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  • 04/02/1950 Diederik Désiré Joseph Quatannens (b. in 1923; still living).
    Ordained a Roman Catholic priest on 05/25/1947 at xxxxx by Pierre Cardinal Gerlier, Archbishop of Lyon, France. He left the Roman Catholic Church in the late 1940s or early 1950s.
    Consecrated a bishop for "the Union of Churches and the World Missions" on 04/02/1950 at Christ Church, Brussels, Belgium, by Joseph Charbonneau, at the time either Archbishop of Montréal, Québec, Canada, or the Titular Archishop of Bosporus, but for the consecration acting as the President of "the World Fellowshp of Bishops," assisted by Gregory Peter XV Cardinal Agagianian, Patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenians, by Ignatius Gabriel I Cardinal Tappouni, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East of the Syrians, and "by others."
    He was ordained sub conditione a priest for the Unitas Fratrum (a/k/a Moravian Brethren) on 12/16/1955 at xxxxx by the Moravian Brethren Bishops Samuel Henry Gapp, H. E. Rondthaler, John Kenneth Pfohl, K. A. Müller, Walter Vivan Moses, and C. Hoyler. On 06/05/1960, at xxxxx, he was consecrated sub conditione a bishop for the Unitas Fratrum (Moravian Brethren) by the Moravian Brethren Bishops Kenneth Gardiner Hamilton, Samuel Henry Gapp, and John Kenneth Pfohl, assisted by the Moravian Brethren Bishops Walter Vivan Moses, Richard Meweldt, and Carl John Helmich.
    He later left the Moravian Brethren Church and became affiliated with a series of other denominations. Since 1972 he has been Primate of the Evangelical Catholic Communion.
    In 1980, at Paris, France, he was consecrated sub conditione as a bishop by Jacques-Hervé Gautier, a former Roman Catholic priest who had become a bishop of the Église Catholique Apostolique Occidentale. Since 1980 Quatennens has also been Archbishop-Primate of that same Église. Since 1983 he has also been the Primate and Patriarch of the Holy Roman Catholic Church of the Old Scottish Apostolic Epsiscopal Observance, using the name Patriarch Sixtus VI. Moreover, since March 31, 1983, he has been "Archbishop-Metropolitan for Europe Outside Scandinavia" of the Apostolic Episcopal Church. He is also the Primate and Patriarch of the Holy Roman Catholic Church of the Eastern Catholic Union and a "Pastor with a general and national mandate" of the United Protestant Church of Belgium.
    He is the Chancellor of the International University (an institution registered in Australia) and a Chaplain-in-Chief for the Ministry of Justice of the KIngdom of Belgium. He lives in Brussels, Belgium.

• xx/xx/1935 Gregory Peter XV Cardinal Agagianian (b. Lazarus Agagianian in 1895; d. in 1971).
  Ordained a Roman Catholic priest of the Apostolic Armenian Rite on xx/xx/19xx at xxxxx by Msgr. xxxxx, Bishop of xxxxx.
  Consecrated a Roman Catholic bishop of the Apostolic Armenian Rite on xx/xx/19xx by Msgr. xxxxx, Bishop of xxxxx, assisted by Msgr. xxxxx, Bishop of xxxxx, and by Msgr. xxxxx, Bishop of xxxxx.
  He was created a Cardinal ______ on xx/xx/19xx and given the titular Roman parish church of xxxxx.
  Cardinal Agagianian was Titular Bishop of Comana, 1935-37, and Patriarch Gregory Peter XV of Cilicia of the Armenians, 1937-71.
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  • 04/02/1950 Diederik Désiré Joseph Quatannens (see above)

• 01/19/1913 Ignatius Gabriel I Cardinal Tappouni (b. Abdalahad Leo Tappouni in 1879; d. in 1968).
  Ordained a Roman Catholic priest of the Jacobite Syrian Rite on xx/xx/19xx at xxxxx by Msgr. xxxxx, Bishop of xxxxx.
  Consecrated a Roman Catholic bishop of the Jacobite Syrian Rite on xx/xx/19xx by Msgr. xxxxx, Bishop of xxxxx, assisted by Msgr. xxxxx, Bishop of xxxxx, and by Msgr. xxxxx, Bishop of xxxxx.
  He was created a Cardinal ______ on xx/xx/19xx and given the titular Roman parish church of xxxxx.
  Cardinal Tappouni was nominated to be, but never consecrated as, Titular Bishop of Danaba in 1912, was Titular Bishop Theophilus Gabriel of Batna, 1913-21, was Archbishop Theophilus Gabriel of Aleppo, Syria, 1921-1929, and was Patriarch Ignatius Gabriel I of Antioch and All the East of the Syrians, 1929-1968.
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  • 04/02/1950 Diederik Désiré Joseph Quatannens (see above).
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