Deacon ordained and new Bishop consecrated in the Ecclessia Apostolica Rosae Rubeae & Aureae Crucis

May 2015

Apostolic Church of the Golden and Rosy Cross

The origins of the “Apostolic Church of the Golden and Rosy Cross”  (a non-dogmatic, tolerant, independent ecclesia formed from valid lines and pure intent with a focus on healing & the Disciplina Arcani, centered by the axis of Christian Worship: distribution of the sacraments) go back to the Pre-Nicene Ekklesia. This Church was brought into existence by  Richard Duc de Palatine. Monsignor Richardus (The Right Reverend  John Palatine) who was consecrated on the 25^th September 1953 by His Sacred  Beatitude Mar Georgius I Patriarch of Glastonbury and  Prince Catholicos of the Catholicate of the West which was incorporated  in India  under  Act XX1  of 1860. On the retirement of Monsignor Richardus as the Presiding Bishop of the Pre  Nicene Ekklesia, who decided to  immigrate to America,  Bishop George Boyer was  appointed  his successor as the Presiding Bishop of the Pre Nicene  Ekklesia, and remained in that office until his death. Bishop George Boyer was an internationally well known and respected Independent Bishop. 

Tau Raphael ordaining a woman priest in the ACGRC

The Rt. Reverend Bishop Michael  Norman Buckley, Tau Marcus  was raised to the  Holy Order of the Episcopate by the Most Rev. George Boyer (1921-2008) the presiding Bishop of the Pre-Nicene Ekklesia on the 3^rd of March 2002, as Bishop for this  Ekklesia in the City of Brighton, in the County  of  East Sussex, England. A Charter was granted  for the Establishment of the Ecclesia  Gnostica  Roseae et Aureae  Crucis by  The Most Reverend George Boyer, (former Secretary General of C.I.R.E.M. and Grand Master and Lord Abbot of the Healing, Teaching and Chivalric Order of St Michael and St Raphael) Presiding Bishop of the Pre-Nicene Ekklesia to The Right Reverend  Michael Norman Buckley on the 3^rd March 2002, for those within his care and spiritual protection.  The Right Reverend Michael Norman Buckley (Tau Marcus) being the Grand Master numerous esoteric orders of spiritual chivalry. 

Due to the public misunderstanding and confusion surrounding the perception of the term 'Gnostic' in the title of  the “Ecclesia Gnostica Roseae et Aureae Crucis”  and also it's unfortunate association with certain rites deemed to be antithetical to primitive Christianity, it was decided by the Most Reverend Michael Norman Buckley, Tau Marcus, Presiding Bishop to change the name  of the Church to that of the “Apostolic Church of the Golden and Rosy Cross” on the 6^th Day of January 2009 at Brighton, in the County of East Sussex, England with the approval of Arch Bishop +Leila BOYER of the Pre-Nicene Ekklesia. 

The Church operates in the U.K., U.S.A., the Republic of Ireland & Nigeria.  The ACGRC believes in and supports the married priesthood, the ordination and consecration of women into the priesthood and the most Christ like empathy and embrace of all of humanity.  Our doors are open to all, In His Name.  Amen. +++