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

May 2015

The Most Rev. Dr Bertil Persson

Bertil Persson and Rev. Siodhachan Lyden (Tau Thomas) at St. Leo's in NYC

Sweden's Professor Bertil Persson is one of the Chaplains to the Swedish Royal family and has very close links with the Vatican.  He is an ordained minister of the Anglican Communion and has presided as Bishop over the Holy Eastern Catholic Church, Primate of the Apostolic Orthodox churches and as a Missionary Arch Bishop for the African Orthodox Church.  He has served as the Missionary General of Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church for Scandinavia and as Missionary General of the Philippine Independent Catholic Church for Scandinavia and all of Europe. In 2012 his book The Fight Against Sects was released, documenting his decades of work to achieve world peace and to educate authorities on the existence as well as the practices of cults and dangerous fundamentalist sects.  He's authored numerous titles on the various histories of independent Catholic and Orthodox churches as well as Independent Bishops: An International Directory with a preface by the well known encyclopedic authority of world religions, J. Gordon Melton.

With the assistance of Archbishop George Boyer and Bishop Leila Boyer, Bertil established the Caribbean Episcopal Church, originally as a church in the Apostolic Episcopal Church, whose Universal Primate he was at that time.  Later the Bishop of London of the Church of England took over the responsibility after the decease of its first Archbishop Eugene Lynch.
Dr. Persson has served for some 30 years as a pedagogue of dyslexia and Ambassador of Peace connected to UNESCO (International Association of Education and World Peace; University for Peace) and ECOSOC (Universal Peace Federation).  He's a talented hymnologist and academic historian of churches and ideas.  He travels around the world speaking at Universities on the subject of Aramaic and its importance to linguistics, religious studies and cultural anthropology as the language of Jesus. He has served as a consultant of Scandinavia for Near East Churches and is the author of several text books in religion.  

Professor Persson earned a Doctorate of Theology and has spent 40 years of research in Sweden and abroad.  Having served the Swedish Government and foreign organizations as an expert in international Jewish-Christian-Muslim dialogue, his works of humanitarian, pedagogical and religious-historical achievement and for his work as a scientific author he has been awarded a number of honorable doctorates and distinctions, including Top 100 Educators 2005, Top 100 Educators 2006 and Top 100 Educators 2008 awarded by Cambridge Biographical Centre, England. Nils Bertil Alexander Persson has traced the Rosicrucian movement back to a beginning in 1188 which predates the publishing of the Fama in 1614.  This research was enabled by his access to secret files in the Library of the Vatican and other private collections throughout Europe, especially the files of the Order of the Knights Templar in Germany. 

I spent some time with Arch Bishop Persson in Manhattan at St Leo's and ventured uptown to give a homily at the African Orthodox Church in Harlem. Afterwards, we had lunch on Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard and spoke at length regarding his research in the Vatican archives and some mutual acquaintances in the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.  He had this to say regarding the Boyers, the United Templar Rite and the Pre-Nicene Ekklesia as well as the Apostolic Church of the Golden and Rosy Cross: 

"Last time I met Beloved Leila was on the 9th of December in the House of Lords in London. I was invited to lecture and I had invited her. We had a longtime chat both before and after my lecture. We decided that when I'm back in London in the mid' of May we share a dinner together as so many times in the past. At that time she told me that she has problem with cancer but it was at the moment better. 

Bishop Leila has for many years been my assistant in my work for the Caribbean people. Archbishop George Boyer and I, assisted by Bishop Leila, established the Caribbean Episcopal Church, originally as a church in the Apostolic Episcopal Church, whose Universal Primate I was at that time. Later the Bishop of London of the Church of England took over the responsibility after the decease of its first Archbishop Eugene Lynch.  Once again I thank you ever so much for the message I've got through Archbishop Peter Paul Brennan, my successor as Universal Primate of Order of Corporate Reunion.

Both +George and +Leila were very active in OCR in the British Isles. Through me they were also installed as Knights of the Knights Templar Order by its Spiritual Protector Archbishop Lutfi Laham of the Holy Land, Patriarch of the Melchite-Greek Catholic Church.  Richard Duke de Palatine founded the Pre Nicene Ekklesia and later passed on the role of Primate to Arch Bishop George Boyer.   Bishop  Boyer in his own right already held lines from Churches recognized by the Anglican Church and World Council of Churches.  These lines were passed onto ++Michael Norman Buckley OCR in 2003, giving rise to the Ecclessia Apostolica Rosae Rubeae & Aureae Crucis, a legitimate church founded in Sussex, England."

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. +++