John Bate Cardale

John Bate Cardale (born November 7, 1802 in London , England, † July 18, 1877 ) was the first apostle of the Catholic apostolic congregations .

Cardale was born in London and was a member of the Anglican Church . After studying law, he headed his father's law office from 1823 to 1834. He was a connoisseur of the Church Fathers and the early Christian liturgies.

In 1830 he traveled to Scotland with two other brothers to examine the spiritual gifts that had appeared there. He reports on it in The Morning Watch magazine . Convinced of the divine origin of these spiritual gifts, he organized his own prayer meetings in his house from October 1830. On April 30, 1831, his wife, who had not traveled with them to Scotland, was the first in England to receive the gift of prophecy. His Anglican pastor, Baptist Noël, preached against these gifts, and so the Cardales were compelled to find another congregation. They found this with Edward Irving . There Cardale was proclaimed an apostle on October 31, 1832, in a prophecy by Drummond . The prophetic confirmation was given on November 7th by Taplin in Irvings' house. This created an unusual situation because the relationship between the church leader, Irving, and the new apostle was initially not clear. Cardale performed his first official act and ordination on December 24, 1832, when he ordained the preacher William Caird as an evangelist in Albury. On December 26th, Henry Drummond was ordained shepherd of the Albury Ward.

At Easter 1833 Irving was removed from office in the Scottish National Church in a church process and expelled from the Church. He was then initially forbidden by Cardale to perform acts of blessing until he was ordained by Cardale to angel (= bishop ) of the Newman Street congregation on April 5, 1833 .

On July 14, 1835, all twelve apostles of the end times were called and their singling out took place. As the first called of the apostles, Cardale was called their "pillar". He was assigned the tribe of Judah, by which England was meant, as a field of work. He also wrote the Testimony to the Church of England and was the final editor of the Great Testimony , which all the apostles had co-authored.

In 1840 he consecrated the Apostle Chapel on the "Albury Park" estate of Henry Drummond. In 1842 the first edition of the liturgy, mainly compiled by Cardale, appeared. He visited the wards in England annually and also presided over the monthly meeting of the seven London wards. In 1853 he consecrated the new central church of the Catholic Apostolic Congregations in Gordon Square, London.

After the death of his fellow apostle Henry John King (who later took the name King Church), he also took over his work in Denmark, learned Danish and visited the local congregations four times until 1873.

He died in 1877 and was buried in Albury.