1976-1977: "The Chicago Call",[1] is issued by the National Conference of Evangelicals for Historic Christianity, meeting in Warrenville, Illinois.
1980s: Pastor Adler is mentored as a "prophet" by Dr. Bill Hamon[2] of the Christian International School of Theology in Phoenix, Arizona (relocated in 1984 to Santa Rosa Beach, Florida).
ICCEC bishops begin seeking a line of apostolic succession[4] that will be recognized as valid by the Roman Catholic Church.
In the summer, two bishops make contact with the Igreja Catolica Apostolica Brasileira (ICAB), the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church.
Current ICAB patriarch Luiz Fernando Castillo Mendez begins talks with the ICCEC about passing on its apostolic succession.