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In the 20th century, Western Rite Orthodoxy continued:
:The dream of Western Orthodoxy did not die with Overbeck. In 1911, an Old Catholic bishop, Arnold Harris Mathew, entered into a short lived union with the Patriarchate of Antioch, under Metropolitan [[Gerasimos (Messarah) of Beirut]]. Even though this union was short-lived, it provided a model for future Western groups who would seek to return to Orthodoxy...
[[Image:Fon-du-Lac Circus.jpg|left|thumb|300px|The so-called "Fond du Lac Circus" of November 1900 (the consecration of Reginald Weller, co-adjutor bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Fond du Lac). Saint [[Tikhon of Moscow|Tikhon]] is pictured on the far right, with Father Sebastian Dabovich (with the beard and hat), and the clean shaven priest behind him is Saint [[John Kochurov]] of Chicago, Protomartyr of the Bolshevik Revolution. The famous Anglo-Catholic Bishop of Fon Fond du Lac and close friend of Tikhon, Charles Grafton, is seated on the front row, in the middle.]]
:In 1926, the so-called "Polish Catholic National Church" (headed by Fr. Andrew Huszno) (really no more than six parishes) was received into the [[Church of Poland|Polish Orthodox Church]]. This group flourished until the Second World War, during which it was wiped out due to Nazi aggression.[http://occidentalis.blogspot.com/2004/09/western-rite-history-part-four.html]
