[10] Costa continued to criticize the government and the Catholic Church, advocating policies that were regarded by the authorities as Communist.

[2] However, Ferraz was excluded from church affairs such as the Roman Synod of 1960, even though he was present in Rome at the time, while the Vatican belatedly questioned the legitimacy of having recognized his status.

[13] Shortly thereafter, in 1961, Costa died and the ICAB underwent several years of tumult as dissensions, schisms, and multiple claimants to the patriarchal throne threw the church into disarray.

It observes seven sacraments (baptism, Eucharist, confirmation, penance, unction, matrimony and ordination) in common with the Catholic Church in Brazil.

[18] The church cites the unique case of Ferraz as evidence that its apostolic succession is valid, even by Roman Catholic standards.

[19] Around fifteen years later during the pontificate of Pope John XXIII, Ferraz was reconciled with the Roman Catholic Church and was eventually recognized as a bishop, even though he was married at the time.

[21] He did pastoral work in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of São Paulo until May 12, 1963, when he was appointed titular bishop of Eleutherna by Pope John XXIII.

[23] There is no independently verifiable evidence of significant activity of the Worldwide Communion of Catholic Apostolic Churches in recent years, and it could be presumed to have terminated.

Simmons (1945-2003) was part of a small house church which fronted a prolific and well-documented ring of pedophilia and child exploitation, brought to light in multiple highly-publicised cases involving Roger Gleaves and Frederick Gilbert Linale.

[28][29][30] The current leader of this branch, now called the Catholic Church of England & Wales, is James Atkinson-Wake, also known as David Bell.

[30][31][32][33][34] In 2016, the former Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives, Peter Slipper, previously a priest in the Anglican Catholic Church in Australia, flew to Brazil to be ordained to the priesthood in the ICAB.