Stephan A. Hoeller

Stephan A. Hoeller is an American author, scholar, and neo-Gnostic bishop.[1]

Stephan A. Hoeller
Born	Istvan Hoeller
Religion	Neo-Gnosticism
Ordained	April 9, 1967
Writings	The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing Jung and the Lost Gospels The Royal Road: A Manual of Kabalistic Meditations on the Tarot Freedom: Alchemy for a Voluntary Society
Offices held	Regionary bishop of Ecclesia Gnostica, Professor emeritus of comparative religion at the College of Oriental Studies in Los Angeles, California
Title	Professor emeritus
Ordination history
History Consecration to the Episcopate Consecrated by Ronald Powell Date 9 April 1967 Second Consecration Second Consecrator Herman Adrian Spruit Date 2 April 1972
Episcopal succession People consecrated to the episcopate by Stephan A. Hoeller George W. S. Brister 16 February 1980 Rosamonde Ikshvaku Miller 18 January 1981 John Joseph Cole October 1998 Alberto La Cava Unknown Date

Career

An author and scholar of Gnosticism and Jungian psychology, Hoeller is Regionary Bishop of Ecclesia Gnostica.[2]

Hoeller was ordained to the priesthood of the American Catholic Church by Bishop Lowell P. Wadle in 1958. He was consecrated to the Gnostic episcopate by Richard Duc de Palatine on April 9, 1967.[1] Ronald Powell (who took the ecclesiastical name Richard Jean Chretien Duc de Palatine) had established a modern-day Gnostic church, the Pre-Nicene Gnostic Catholic Church, in England during the 1950s - de Palatine received his successions from British independent prelate Hugh de Wilmott-Newman in 1953.[3] After the death of Duc de Palatine in the 1970s, Hoeller abbreviated the church's name, in Latin form, to Ecclesia Gnostica.[4] He has continued to serve as bishop of the Ecclesia Gnostica for over four decades.

Hoeller has lectured in Australia, New Zealand, England, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Hungary, Germany, and the United States. He is a former member of the lecturing faculty of the late Manly P. Hall's Philosophical Research Society, and a national speaker for the Theosophical Society in America. Since 1963 he has been Director of Studies for the Gnostic Society centered in Los Angeles, where he has lectured every Friday evening for many decades. He was a frequent contributor to Gnosis magazine; and has also written for Quest Magazine and for many professional journals. He is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religion at the College of Oriental Studies in Los Angeles, California.

During a 2003 interview, he spoke about Gnosticism.[5]

Partial bibliography

• The Royal Road: A Manual of Kabalistic Meditations on the Tarot (1975), ISBN 0-8356-0465-9 Second Edition republished as: The Fool's Pilgrimage, Kabbalistic Meditations on the Tarot (2004) ISBN 0-8356-0839-5
• The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead (1982), ISBN 0-8356-0568-X
• Jung and the Lost Gospels (1989), ISBN 0-8356-0646-5
• Freedom: Alchemy for a Voluntary Society (1992), ISBN 0-8356-0678-3
• Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing (2002), ISBN 0-8356-0816-6
• A Gnostic Catechism - Revised Edition (2020), ISBN 979-86-05466-06-2
• The Mystery and Magic of the Eucharist - Revised Edition (2020), ISBN 979-86-07284-47-3

Notes

1. http://www.questbooks.net/author.cfm?authornum=14
2. http://www.thegnosticsociety.org
3. Hoeller, Stephan. "Wandering Bishops: Not All Roads Lead to Rome". Wandering Bishops: Not All Roads Lead to Rome. The Gnosis Archive. Retrieved 12 December 2011.
4. Introduction to the Ecclesia Gnostica
5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2003-12-28. Retrieved 2007-08-07.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

External links

• Audio lectures by Stephan Hoeller