Crow was born in 1895, and by 1942, he established the
kabbalistic Order of Holy Wisdom for
occultists and
Theosophists interested in "orthodox Catholic faith". In 1943, he was consecrated to the episcopacy by Herbert James Monzani Heard of the
Ancient British Church. By October 1943, alongside representatives from the Ancient British Church, the British Orthodox Catholic Church,
Apostolic Episcopal Church, Old Catholic Orthodox Church, the Order of Antioch and his Order of Holy Wisdom; Crow was elected as
patriarch of Antioch in schism with the
Syriac Orthodox Church. Under his authority,
Hugh George de Willmott Newman was elected as first catholicos for the new Christian denomination. By 1945, it was mutually agreed that the Catholicate of the West would receive
autocephaly from Crow's jurisdiction. In 1976, Crow died and was succeeded in the Order of Holy Wisdom by
William Henry Hugo Newman Norton, who would later renounce his affiliations and join the
Coptic Orthodox Church. == References ==