Dharma Lineage

The Dharma Lineages of Dharmacharya Gurudas Sunyatananda can be traced back to Swami Abishiktananda, OSB, who was trained in the Advaita tradition; to Morehei Ueshiba Sensei, through Robert Danza Sensei and Marianne Donoghue Sensei; to Maharaji Neem Karoli Baba, through Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati (Tenzin Yangchen); and to Onisaburu Deguchi-san, spiritual leader of the Omoto-kyo School of Dharma, through Morehei Ueshiba and Robert Danza Sensei.

He received the Kalachakra empowerment from His Holiness, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama,in October of 1991, having previously completed his initial studies of the meaning of Tantra, and having been determined to be of the proper motivation and experience to receive the empowerment.

Within the lineage of the Christ Dharma, the spiritual lineage of Khenpo (recognised and known in Catholic circles as Archbishop Francis-Maria of the Immaculata) can be traced directly back to Rav Yeshua himself, in unbroken succession, through the disciples James, John, Judas-Thomas, Thaddeus and Bartholomew.

These ancient successions were transmitted to Khenpo upon his consecration as Bishop-Abbot of the contemplative community, via the Old Catholic, Mariavite, Eastern Catholic, Armenian and Orthodox Churches.

The Apostolic Succession of His Eminence +Francis-Maria of the Immaculata from the North American Old Roman Catholic Church is as follows:

Carmel Henry Carfora consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 17 Oct. 1926

Jose Macario Lopez Y Valdes who consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 27 March 1930

Alberto Luis Rodriquez Y Duran who consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 12 March 1955

Emile Federico Rodriguez Y Fairfield who consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 12 May 1990

George Augustus Stallings Jr. who consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate in 1996

Carlos Enrique Harvin who consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 18 Jan. 2004

Francis-Maria of the Immaculata at Imani Temple, Washington, D.C.

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The Apostolic Succession of His Eminence +Francis-Maria of the Immaculata from the Catholic Apostolic Church of Brazil is as follows:

Dom Carlos Duarte Costa
Patriarch, Igreja Catolica Apostolica Brasileira (1945)
Who consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate in 1945:

** Salomâo Ferraz
Who consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate in 1951:

Manoel Ceia Laranjeira
Who consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate in 1969:

Viktor Ivan Busà
Who consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate in 1972:

Frederick Charles King
Who sub-conditionally consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate in 1954:

Emile Federico Rodriguez y Durand (Fairfield)
Who consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate in 1990:

George Augustus Stallings
(African-American Catholic Congregation)
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate in 1996

Carlos Enrique Harvin
(African-American Catholic Congregation)
Who consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate on 18 January 2004

Francis-Maria of the Immaculata at Imani Temple, Washington, D.C.

** Bishop Salomâo Ferraz was invited to participate in Vatican Council II, where he was recognised as a bishop in proper standing, despite his being married and a member of the autocephalic Catholic movement. He was later received back into the Roman Catholic Church, as a married Catholic Bishop, and received the burial of a regular member of the episcopate when he died. The validity of Salomâo Ferraz' orders provides ipso facto validity for those in his succession.