Rudolph de Landas Berghes et de Rache

Rudolph de Landas Berghes
Archbishop of the Old Roman Catholic Church of America
Successor	Carmel Henry Carfora
Personal details
Born	(1873-11-01)November 1, 1873 Naples, Kingdom of Italy
Died	17 November 1920(1920-11-17) (aged 47) Villanova, Pennsylvania
Nationality	Austrian and American
Denomination	Anglican, Old Roman Catholic, & Roman Catholic

Rodolphe Francois Ghislain de Lorraine de Landas Berghes St. Winock (November 1, 1873 - November 17, 1920), better known as Rudolph de Landas Berghes, was Regionary Bishop of Scotland of the Old Roman Catholic Western Orthodox Church and later Archbishop of the Old Roman Catholic Church of America.

Berghes was born in Naples,Kingdom of Italy. He was the "son of Count de Landas Bourgogne de Rache and Adelaide M. de Gramont-Hamilton." He "lived most of his life in England." "He claimed to have succeeded in 1907, to prince dukedom, of de Berghes, on letters approved by" King Leopold II of Belgium and Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, according to his obituary in the Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger. But his name was not found in Almanach de Gotha which began to list "Berghes-Saint-Winock" as an "extinct house" in 1908.Frederick Cunliffe-Owen, a "chronicler of nobility", "in one of his newspaper articles, said that if" Berghes' name "was his right one he was a prince; but he could not be a prince, because the line of succession to the title passed in 1907." He said that he was raised as a Protestant. He was educated at Eton College and the universities of Cambridge, Paris and Brussels. He completed courses in law, theology and military tactics. He said that at Cambridge, he became a supporter of the high church and became interested in Anglo-Catholicism. He said that to avert this, his mother made him transfer to the Faculty of Protestant Theology at the University of Paris.