Frederick Lee (priest)


Frederick George Lee was a priest of the Church of England and a religious author. He founded the Order of Corporate Reunion.

Life

Lee was trained in Cuddesdon Theological College and ordained to priesthood in 1856 by the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce.
Lee was, together with Ambrose de Lisle and others, a co-founder of the Association for the Promotion of the Unity of Christendom. In Aberdeen he had difficulties with the bishop concerning his ritualistic practices. He later became vicar of All Saints' Lambeth, London.
Lee founded a clandestine Anglo-Papalist society, the Order of Corporate Reunion, to continue the work of the APUC and to restore an apostolic succession recognised by the Roman Catholic Church, through reordinations, as a means for reunion. Lee is believed to have been secretly consecrated as a bishop by some Roman Catholic prelates whose names were kept secret. Lee styled himself Bishop of Dorchester for a while and performed some ordinations, but later became disillusioned and aware that he had made a mistake.
In the late 1880s, Lee was a member of the Order of the White Rose, the club that sparked the Neo-Jacobite Revival.
Lee was received into the Roman Catholic Church on 11 December 1901, shortly before his death.

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