The Statement of the Bishop of Richmond
Regarding the Consecration of Bishop Gavin Ashenden
Michaelmas, 29th September 2017.

The Right Reverend Robert David Redmile, Lord Bishop of Richmond, British Columbia, has issued
the following statement in regard to the Episcopal Consecration of the Right Reverend Gavin Roy
Pelham Ashenden, Suffragan Bishop in Normandy and England:

Since the gracious acceptance by Her Majesty the Queen of his resignation as one of Her Majesty’s
Chaplains, and his recent resignation from the ordained ministry of the Church of England, the Right
Reverend Gavin Roy Pelham Ashenden is now in a position to make known to the members of the
Church of England and the wider Anglican Communion, and to the British public in general, his status
as a Bishop of the Catholic and Apostolic Church.

Therefore, as the Principal Consecrator of Bishop Ashenden, I should like to make it known at this
time that he was duly approved as a candidate for Consecration by the Archbishop and Bishops of
the Christian Episcopal Churches of North America; and that he was then duly, lawfully, regularly,
and canonically according to the prescribed rites and ceremonies of the undivided Catholic Church
consecrated Bishop on the Seventeenth Day of October in the Year of Our Lord 2013, publicly before
the face of a Congregation of Christian Faithful in the Pro-Cathedral Church of Saint Saviour, by me
the Right Reverend Robert David Redmile, Lord Bishop of Richmond, British Columbia, and assisted
therein by the Most Reverend Theodore Chris Casimes, Primate of the Christian Episcopal Churches
of North America, the Right Reverend Timothy Joseph Klerekoper, Bishop of Seattle, Washington,
and the Right Reverend Nicholas John Geoffrey Sykes, Bishop in George Town, Grand Cayman Island,
British West Indies, and Suffragan Bishop of Richmond.

At the time of his Consecration, Bishop Ashenden was appointed to be my Suffragan in Normandy
for the Channel Islands and France, and he will continue in that office as well as that of Suffragan
Bishop in and for England.

The Christian Episcopal Church of Canada and the Christian Episcopal Church in the United States
of America were first established and incorporated in their respective countries as the Missionary
Diocese of the Americas of the Episcopal Church by the Right Reverend Archibald Donald Davies,
Fourth Bishop of Dallas and First Bishop of Fort Worth, and later Bishop Ordinary of the Convocation
of American Churches in Europe to which office Bishop Davies was appointed by the Most Reverend
John Maury Allin, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church.

All the Bishops of the Christian Episcopal Churches were consecrated by Bishop Davies and Bishops
in full communion with him, and since his death only by those Bishops who were consecrated by
them. In this way, the Episcopal Orders which Bishop Ashenden has received are valid, regular, and
lawful Episcopal Orders deriving from the established Church of England and the Scottish Episcopal
Church, the Polish National Catholic Church and the Old Catholic Churches of the Utrecht Union, and
the Roman Catholic Church.

It is the intention of Bishop Ashenden that he will continue in the office and ministry to which he
has been duly called, appointed, ordained, and consecrated, and to continue to pursue his work of
defending the orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Christian Faith and promoting the authentic Anglican
expression thereof both in England and abroad.

Given at Richmond, British Columbia, Canada.

+ Robert David: Richmond.