"[5] Allegedly, in Oxfordshire some time after 1858, Richard Williams Morgan, an Anglican priest, was conditionally "baptised, confirmed, ordained and consecrated" Patriarch of the Ancient British Church by Ferrette, and given by him the full title Mar Pelagius I, Hierarch of Caerleon-on-Usk.
[7] Morgan claimed that Christianity in Britain existed in a syncretistic, druidic form prior to the entry of Augustine of Canterbury.
[8] The publications of John Williams (Ab Ithel),[1] Iolo Morganwg,[9] Morgan and Ferrette influenced the movement.
This church was made the Catholicate of the West by Patriarch Abdullah III (William Bernard Crow).
He was consecrated as this status by Abdullah III on 10 April 1944 under the name and title: Mar Georgius, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Holy Metropolis of Glastonbury, the Occidental Jerusalem, and Catholicos of the West.