He was consecrated on 6 March 1879, with the religious title 'Mar Theophilus I', by Richard Williams Morgan, of the Ancient British Church, with the assistance of the following bishops Frederick George Lee, John Thomas Seccombe, and Thomas Wimberley Mossman; the latter three were bishops in the Order of Corporate Reunion, an independent association promoting the reunion of Anglicans and other British Protestants with the Roman Catholic Church.
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Richard Williams Morgan is consecrated First Patriarch of a restored Ancient British Church by Jules Ferrette, the founder of the British Orthodox Church, taking the religious name of 'Mar Pelagius I' and undertaking to revive Celtic Christianity as practised prior to the Synod of Whitby while continuing duties as an Anglican clergyman.