It was in the year 1913 that the young Wedgwood believed that he had found the opportunity to serve Christ as a Priest in circumstances of greater freedom. In that year he met Doctor Arnold Mathew, Bishop of the Old Catholic Church in England who had been condecrated by the Dutch Old Catholic Bishops in Holland in 1908.

Bishop Mathew raised no objection to Wedgwood's liberal views and ordained him as a Priest in the Old Catholic Church.