Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Jules Ferrette (22 April 1828– 10 October 1904) was a Bishop of Iona and founder of the Catholic Apostolic Church of the West (later known as the British Orthodox Church).A Frenchman of Protestant parentage, he was born at Épinal in the Vosges, France in 1828. According to his own account, when he was a boy of 14 he obtained access to the library of an eminent writer, in which there were a great many works of the Eastern fathers and Anglican divines. From reading these he reached the conclusion that most of the divisions of Christendom were unnecessary and capable of readjustment. He was received into the Catholic Church in 1850 and became a Dominican under the name 'Frere Raymond'. He studied philosophy and theology at Grenoble and Rome and was successively ordained to the minor orders on 10 June 1854, as a subdeacon on 23 December 1854, a deacon on 7 April 1855 and finally a priest on 2 June 1855. He served at the Dominican Mission in Mesopotamia and Kurdistan from January to June 1856 but then left the Catholic Church. He worked with the Presbyterian Mission in Damascus from 1858 till 1865 and assisted Lord Dufferin's Mission to the poor Christians of Mount Lebanon from 1860 to 1862. He was consecrated as Bishop of Iona and its dependencies at Homs (Emesa) on 2 June 1866 at the hands of Mutran Boutros (later the Syrian Orthodox Patriarch) acting solus, with a mission to introduce Oriental Orthodoxy to the West. He died in Geneva in 1904.. }
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- Jules_Ferrette abstract "Jules Ferrette (22 April 1828– 10 October 1904) was a Bishop of Iona and founder of the Catholic Apostolic Church of the West (later known as the British Orthodox Church).A Frenchman of Protestant parentage, he was born at Épinal in the Vosges, France in 1828. According to his own account, when he was a boy of 14 he obtained access to the library of an eminent writer, in which there were a great many works of the Eastern fathers and Anglican divines. From reading these he reached the conclusion that most of the divisions of Christendom were unnecessary and capable of readjustment. He was received into the Catholic Church in 1850 and became a Dominican under the name 'Frere Raymond'. He studied philosophy and theology at Grenoble and Rome and was successively ordained to the minor orders on 10 June 1854, as a subdeacon on 23 December 1854, a deacon on 7 April 1855 and finally a priest on 2 June 1855. He served at the Dominican Mission in Mesopotamia and Kurdistan from January to June 1856 but then left the Catholic Church. He worked with the Presbyterian Mission in Damascus from 1858 till 1865 and assisted Lord Dufferin's Mission to the poor Christians of Mount Lebanon from 1860 to 1862. He was consecrated as Bishop of Iona and its dependencies at Homs (Emesa) on 2 June 1866 at the hands of Mutran Boutros (later the Syrian Orthodox Patriarch) acting solus, with a mission to introduce Oriental Orthodoxy to the West. He died in Geneva in 1904.".