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The Order of Corporate Reunion is mentioned in Peter Anson's Bishops at Large. It was a scheme, allegedly blessed by the Pope, to create a shadow hierarchy in the CofE in order to reintroduce a valid Apostolic Succession into same. The group was said to be highly secretive, but there were reports of observations of clandestine ceremonies, and pamphlets promoting the group have also appeared.

Everything I have heard about this group is extremely suspicious. While I have no doubt that a clandestine group making these claims might have existed, I seriously doubt there's any truth to the back story. (Can anybody really believe that 19th century Rome would approve the consecration of CofE priests to secretly impart valid ordinations to persons who were attached to a community Rome views as heretical and schismatic?) And even if ordinations of one kind or another were being performed, the clandestine nature of this group casts the orders of anyone claiming to have received them from this group in doubt. I do not doubt that the various Old/Independent Catholic splinter groups claim some connection to the Order of Corporate Reunion, but again, verifying these claims is problematic, and I can't see what could be gained from claiming such an association.