Hugh George de Willmott Newman

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Hugh de Willmott Newman (1905-) was the bishop of an independent (non-Roman) Catholic church in the United States. He is most notable for seeking multiple consecrations and trying to establish his legitimacy based more on this than his numbers of followers.

In 1944 Newman was consecrated a bishop by William Bernard Crow, who had been consecrated in turn by av Syro-Chaldean bishop in India. At other points Newman engaged in cross consecrating, where he and another bishop would consecrate each other to give each the others lines of succession.^[1]