| Birth Name: | Istvan Hoeller |
| Birth Date: | 27 November, 1931 |
| Birth Place: | Budapest, Hungary |
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, 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. He was a 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. His articles have appeared in Gnosis magazine and Quest Magazine.