Hochkirchliche St. Johannes-Bruderschaft (SJB) (High Church Brotherhood of St John) is a German High Church Lutheran religious society for men and women under the patronate of John the Apostle within the Hochkirchliche Vereinigung. It has about 100 members in Germany, Netherlands, Austria and Czech Republic. It is headed by Apostolischer Vorsteher +Paulus Klaus Jacoby.
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The aim of the confraternity is "the sacramental renewal of the Church, restorement of the Apostolic Succession in the Church and recovery of the unity of the christendom".
The Brotherhood is headed by Apostolischer Vorsteher, who is a bishop in Apostolic Succession. He is assisted by vicar apostolic, likewise bishop in Apostolic Succession. Brotherhood elects the vicar capitular.
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St. Johannes-Bruderschaft's predecessor "Evangelisch-Katholische Eucharistische Gemeinschaft" (Evangelical Catholic Eucharistic Society) was founded 1929 in Germany. It was forbidden in Nazi Germany because of its resistance to Aryan paragraphs, but was founded again in 1947 as "Evangelische-Ökumenische St.-Johannes-Bruderschaft".
The first Apostolischer Vorsteher of the confraternity was Friedrich Heiler. He arranged to receive the episcopal consecration from a bishop of the independent Gallican Church. On August 25, 1930, Heiler received from the hands of the Gallican Bishop Petrus Gaston Vigué, using the Roman Ritual, all the Holy Orders including the episcopate.