Joseph René Vilatte

Joseph René Vilatte
Vilatte after his consecration in 1892
Successor	Frederick Ebenezer Lloyd
Personal details
Born	(1854-01-24)January 24, 1854 Paris, France
Died	July 8, 1929(1929-07-08) (aged 75) Versailles, France
Nationality	French (along with Canadian and American)
Denomination	Old Catholic, American Catholic Church (ACC)
Parents	Joseph R. Vilatte, Marie-Antoinette Chorin
Motto	Soli Deo honor et gloria (Honour and glory be to God alone)
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Ordination history of René Vilatte
Diaconal ordination
Ordained by	Eduard Herzog
Date of ordination	June 6, 1885
Place of ordination	Bern, Switzerland
Priestly ordination
Ordained by	Eduard Herzog
Date of ordination	June 7, 1885
Place of ordination	Bern, Switzerland
Episcopal consecration
Principal consecrator	Mar Julius I (Antonio Francisco Xavier Alvares)
Co-consecrator	Mar Athanasius Paulos of Kottayam
Co-consecrator	Mar Gregorius Gewargis of Niranam
Date of consecration	May 29, 1892
Place of consecration	Colombo, British Ceylon
Bishops consecrated by René Vilatte as principal consecrator
Stephen Kaminski	March 21, 1898
Paolo Miraglia	May 6, 1900
Henry Marsh-Edwards	June 14, 1903
Carmel Henry Carfora	1907(?)
Victor von Kubinyi	April 27, 1913
Frederick Ebenezer Lloyd	December 29, 1915
George Alexander McGuire	September 28, 1921
Edgar James Sneed	June 1, 1923
Francis John Edmund Barwell-Walker	June 1, 1923

Joseph René Vilatte (January 24, 1854 – July 8, 1929), also known religiously as Mar Timotheus I, was a French-American Christian leader active in France and the United States. He was associated with several Christian denominations before his ordination as a priest by a Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland (CKS) bishop at the request of a Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (PECUSA) bishop for service in a PECUSA diocese. He was later consecrated as a bishop by Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church bishops with the knowledge and permission of the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch. He was expelled from multiple denominations and was an example of an episcopus vagans.

Although never a bishop within an Old Catholic denomination or sect, and denounced by the Union of Utrecht Old Catholic churches, he is known as the "first Old Catholic bishop of the United States".