Celtic Orthodox Church

The Celtic Orthodox Church (COC), formerly known as the Catholic Apostolic Church (Catholicate of the West and, before that, as the Ancient British Church and the Orthodox Church of the British Isles (OCBI), is a very small autocephalous Orthodox church, constituted by the Syrian Orthodox Church but with a mandate to develop a Western Orthodox church in the Celtic tradition without recourse to its Oriental roots, which was canonically established with the consecration of Mar Julius (Jules Ferrette) in 1866 by Mar Boutros (Boutros ibn Salmo Mesko) who later became Patriarch Mar Ignatius Peter IV of the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch. In 2015 it had two clergy resident in the United Kingdom.