Stephan A. Hoeller

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.

[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.