[5]Vilatte officially retired at a synod held in Chicago on April 10, 1920, and named Lloyd as his successor as Primate and Metropolitan of the American Catholic Church (ACC).
Lloyd was president of an intercollegiate university in Kansas, which offered correspondence degrees to clergymen from various denominations.
[8] On September 8, 1929, he consecrated John Churchill Sibley as Missionary Archbishop and Vicar General of the Order of Antioch in England.
An article in the John Bull magazine focussed on the institute, stating that it dealt in 'bogus Degrees'.
[9] The spread of the American Catholic Church from 1920 until his death in 1933 was largely due to his initiative.