Jean Bricaud

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Jean (or Joanny) Bricaud, (February 11, 1881 - February 24, 1934), also known as Tau Jean II, was a French student of the occult and esoteric matters. Bricaud was heavily involved in the French neo-Gnostic movement. He was consecrated a Gnostic bishop on July 21, 1913 by bishop Louis-Marie-François Giraud.[1] He was the Patriarch of the Gnostic Catholic Church and a central figure in the various lines of its apostolic succession, as well as a spiritual heir of Jules Doinel (Valentinus II). From 1916 he was head of the Ordre Martiniste.

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  1. ^ Ecclesia Gnostica Position Paper Concerning the Thelemite or Crowleyan Gnostic Churches by Stephan A. Hoeller (written in the early 1980s)
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