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Stephan A. Hoeller is an American author, lecturer and neo-Gnostic bishop. [1]
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Stephan A. Hoeller is an American author, lecturer and neo-Gnostic bishop. [1]
A lecturer and writer of books and articles about Gnosticism and Jungian psychology, Hoeller is also Regionary Bishop of Ecclesia Gnostica. [2]
Hoeller was ordained to the priesthood in the American Catholic Church by Bishop Lowell P. Wadle in 1958,[ citation needed ] and consecrated bishop by Richard Duc de Palatine on April 9, 1967. [3] After the death of Palatine, Hoeller abbreviated Palatine's church's name — the Pre-Nicene Gnostic Catholic Church — to Ecclesia Gnostica, [4] and has since held the title of Regionary Bishop.
Hoeller has lectured in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Hungary, Germany, and the United States.[ citation needed ] He was a member of the lecturing faculty of the late Manly P. Hall's Philosophical Research Society,[ citation needed ] and a national speaker for the Theosophical Society in America.[ citation needed ] His articles have appeared in Gnosis magazine and Quest Magazine .
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