Charles Isaac Stevens (1835–1917) was allegedly the second

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of the Ancient British Church from 1889 to 1917 and also was ''primus'' of the

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of England from 1900 to 1917. He was born on 28 November 1835 at

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, London, to Isaac Thomas and Anna (née Morgan) Stevens and was baptised at the Parish Church of St Luke, London, on 5 June 1836. Stevens was a

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of England presbyter until the year 1879. He was

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on 6 March 1879 by

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assisted by Frederick George Lee and

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of the

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. According to the Anglican Free Communion,

(OCR) bishops assisted Morgan at the 6 March 1879 consecration.website of Anglican Free Communion www.anglicanfreecommunion.org/History.htm (Retrieved 13 August 2016) This is disputed, however, by Henry Brandreth who (writing in 1947) considered that "it is very unlikely, however, that any of the bishops performed a consecration" of Stevens.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Stevens, Charles Isaac 1835 births 1917 deaths 19th-century English clergy 20th-century English Christian clergy