The Excommunication of Jerome Lloyd and Douglas Lewin

Synodikon (Decree) of Anathema

-The Excommunication of Jerome Lloyd and Douglas Lewins-

Unto his beloved Old Roman Catholic Sons dwelling in Europe

Beloved Sons, Greeting and Apostolic Benediction.

In the pale of a grave and enduring scandal, it is with the most profound grief of soul that We have learned that soidisant Archbishops of the United Kingdom, namely Jerome Lloyd (a.k.a. Jeremy Cave) and Douglas Lewins, seeking their own glory rather than that of Jesus Christ, and being carried away by the fire of ambition and novelties, have denied three fundamental dogmas of the Catholic Faith: The Immaculate Conception (dogmatically defined by His Holiness Pope Pius IX in his papal bull Ineffabilis Deus - December 8th 1854), Papal Infallibility ex cathedra in morals and dogma (doctrine that was dogmatically defined during the First Vatican Council (1869-1870) under the Pontificate of His Holiness Pope Pius IX), and the Assumption of The Theotokos into Heavenly Glory (doctrine dogmatically defined by His Holiness Pope Pius XII on November 1, 1950 in the Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus by exercising

Papal Infallibility).

The denial of the Infallibility of the Pope is indeed very serious sin. About this dogma we must observe the sacred canons of the First Ecumenical Council Vatican. When the Roman Pontiff speaks EX CATHEDRA he possesses, by the divine assistance promised to him in blessed Peter, that infallibility which the divine Redeemer willed his Church to enjoy in defining doctrine concerning faith or morals. Therefore, such definitions of the Roman Pontiff are of themselves, and not by the consent of the Church, irreformable (Vatican I, 1869b, chap. 4, s. 9). So then, should anyone, which God forbid, have the temerity to reject this definition of ours: let him be anathema [condemned] (Vatican I, 1869b, chap. 4, s. 9,). In addition, the above mentioned Archbishops deny that the Sacrament of Marriage, is one of the Seven Catholic Sacraments (Holy Mysteries) entered into by One man and One Woman, to the exclusion of all others.

-QUAESTIONES CANONICAE-

When it comes to Catholics who are formally guilty of heresy, apostasy or schism, the Church applies the penalty of excommunication. The 1983 Code of Canon Law repeats in forma et in modo the sanctions of the earlier 1917 Code. According to canon 1364 of the Code of Canon Law of 1983, the heretic as well as the apostate from the Faith and the schismatic incur automatic excommunication, a.k.a. latae sententiae excommunication or ipso facto excommunication. Indeed, canon 1364 reads: “An apostate from the faith, a heretic, or a schismatic incurs a latae sententiae excommunication …” Canon 751 defines these three crimes: “Heresy is the obstinate denial or obstinate doubt after Baptism of a truth which must be believed by divine and Catholic faith. Apostasy is the total repudiation of the Christian faith. Schism is the withdrawal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff or from communion with the members of the Church subject to him.” In any case, according to the ancient tradition of the Catholic Church, it is the duty of every Bishop, Archbishop, Primate or Metropolitan hunt down and excommunicate all heretics that, in a diabolical way, seek to destroy the holy Church of Christ.

-DECLARATION-

Turning Our thoughts and Our solicitude first of all to you, Beloved Sons, of whose constant and devoted good will we have ever received such illustrious testimony, We vigorously exhort you to guard zealously against their frauds and snares. Furthermore, lest We should appear to betray Our office, being faithful to the examples of the True Old Roman Catholic Bishops (namely Abps Arnold Harris Mathew, Rudolph de Landas Berghes, Carmel Henry Carfora, Richard Arthur Marchenna ,Gerard George Shelley, Federick Linale, Robert Butler, Ronald-George Septoe etc.), We hereby excommunicate the above-named Jerome Lloyd (a.k.a. Jeremy Cave) and Douglas Lewins and we hereby anathematize, and solemnly command and declare them to be separated from the communion of the Old Roman Catholic Church and to be held for schismatics, and to be avoided by all Old Roman Catholics as Vitandi.

To the deposed Archbishops Jerome Lloyd (a.k.a. Jeremy Cave) and Douglas Lewins, and to all those who follow them, who teach that those who fall into heresy are still part of the Church of Christ, and that their mysteries are grace-filled, and who teach that the Church of Christ has not the Three Fundamental Dogmas of The Immaculate Conception, Papal Infallibility ex cathedra in morals and dogma and the Assumption of The Theokos into Heavenly Glory--and thus maintain that the holy body of Christ not only can be divided and but also be infected with the disease of falsehood, who oppose the holy Apostle Paul who says that the holy Church is a “glorious Church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such things [Eph. V, XXVII],” and who commune heretics and have therefore succumbed to the heresy of modernist Old catholicism,

ANATHEMA !

We exhort you also, Beloved Sons, to join your fervent prayers to Ours, beseeching God that He deign mercifully to lead back to the sheepfold of Christ and the port of salvation these unhappily errant men.

Given at Thessaloniki, at Our Episcopal Cathedral, under Our Metropolitan Ring, the third day of November, 2013, Dominica IV quae superfuit Post Epiphaniam I. Novembris.