Liberal Catholic Church of Ontario
The Liberal Catholic Church of Ontario was a non-theosophical Liberal Catholic denomination in Canada, now merged into the Christ Catholic Church International, which formed in 1991. The LCCO grew out of the Old Catholic Diocese of Hamilton in 1949 by William Henry Daw, who was appointed LCCO's first bishop in 1955. Fr. Glen Lucas of Midland, Ontario was consecrated bishop of the Liberal Catholic Church of Ontario and Christ Catholic Church International in 2013 by Arch-Bishop Don Mullan of Niagara Falls, Ontario and Bp. John Brown of Hamilton Ontario. Subsequently, Bp. Glen Lucas took over the Administration of the Liberal Catholic Church of Ontario as well as the Christ Catholic Church International as Arch-Bishop and continues his mission of Christ's message, of service to others in his parish.
The name Liberal Catholic Church is used by a number of separate Christian churches throughout the world which are open to esoteric beliefs and hold many ideas in common. Although the term Liberal Catholic might suggest otherwise, it does not refer to liberal groups within the Roman Catholic Church but to groups within the Independent Catholic movement, unrecognised by and not in communion with the Pope nor the rest of the Catholic Church.
There are essentially two groups of Liberal Catholic Churches: those which espouse theosophical ideas and those which do not.
