Bishop Ferrando

It is a notorious fact that any church declines and stagnates where it is not pushed by the competition of another faith. The Roman Catholic Church reigns supreme in Colombia, and when the young priest Manuel Ferrando, of the Capuchin Order, was sent from Rome in 1898 to work for the Societ`a Propaganda Fides, he may have found Colombia religiously stagnant. Whatever may have been the cause, he left the Roman Catholic Church in 1900, and went to Ponce, Porto Rico, where he established a communal agricultural mission, and founded the " Church of Jesus." In the years that followed he became attracted to the Protestant Episcopal missions on the Island, and in 1918 he began work with their missionaries. On June 12, 1923, Dr. Ferrando was consecrated bishop in the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Bishops Manning of New York and Gailor of Tennessee officiating. Bishop Ferrando's diocese is Queerada Limon, Porto Rico.

Newman left the Anglican Church and was elevated by Rome. Ferrando left the Church of Rome and has been elevated by the Anglicans. Tit-for-tat. Nobody's soul is saved or lost.