Independent Patriarchs
These Patriarchs are not part of traditional ecclesiastical communions of either the Eastern or the Catholic variety. Their sects were generally initiated since about 1900 and reject many of the teachings of traditional apostolic Christian faith, for example by allowing women to attempt ordination or by allowing priests to marry after ordination.
- The Patriarch of the Catholic Apostolic National Church of Brazil.
- The Patriarch of the International Communion of the Charismatic Episcopal Church.
- The Patriarch of the Apostolic Catholic Church.
- The Patriarch of the Catholic Apostolic Church of Antioch.
- The Patriarch of the American Orthodox Catholic Church.
- The Patriarch of the Assembly of Jerusalem.
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