Glory to the Father and the Mother and the Son and the Daughter and the Holy Spirit without and the Holy Spirit within. Amen.

Thank you for your interest in the Coptic Gnostic Church. I am +Dositheos. I have a strong interest in esoteric studies. I am very open minded and non-dogmatic. I have a long history of study and practice in various traditions. I have found that for me personally, the paths I have encountered for the most part tend to compliment and feed into each other. I feel gnosis is universal and perennial and can be found at the heart of all true spiritual paths. I began my studies of gnosticism about 17 years ago. It has stayed with me ever since. More recently I had the opportunity to receive Holy Orders. I was ordained Subdeacon, Deacon, Exorcist and Priest in August of 2007 by T Allen Greenfield of the Assembly of the Knowledge and Wisdom of Solomon.  This was a profound experience for me and I have happily taken up service as my life’s vocation. Seven months later, in March of 2008, I was raised to the Episcopate. My primary consecrator was T Allen Greenfield, with Tau Naamah and Tau HRMShT co-consecrating. Then in July of 2008 I was consecrated sub conditione by Thomas Dionysius Langley, Archbishop-Catholicos of the Alexandrian Gnostic Church with Tau Galahad and Tau Ishaviva co-consecrating. The lines of succession I hold include both Gnostic and Apostolic lineages. I am humbled by this. My life has been radically transformed by my ordination and consecration.

In June of 2008 I formed a “Successions Research Group” to begin to study the various lines of succession. These sessions ultimately generated the formation of an independent ecclesiastical body called the Coptic Gnostic Church (CGC). After the first two or three sessions, we made a decision to put the successions research on hold and formed a “Sacrament Research Group”. The Sacrament Research Group has been divided into two phases. In phase 1 we had an introductory session, followed by a single session (monthly) per sacrament to get a general overview of how the sacraments have been implemented historically in both the Apostolic and Gnostic traditions. So, in all, we had 8 sessions. Phase 2 began in April of 2009. The focus of phase 2 is to develop our own sacraments as they will be used within the CGC. We are spending as much time as we need per sacrament. We have started with Baptism which is currently still in development. When we complete our Baptism Rite, we will move to Confirmation. At the conclusion of phase 2 we will have developed all seven sacraments and will then begin to offer them as service to the general public.

More recently we have reformed the Successions Research Group as well. We made the decision that we don’t need to wait until the sacraments are fully developed to resume study of the lines of succession. I have multiple source documents  that contain the lines of succession I received from T Allen and Bishop Langley. The project we are working on now is to “marry” all the information in the separate documents into one exhaustive successions document. This is no easy task as the data needs to be cross-referenced and confirmed across all of the source documents. This will take some time, but it is in progress as I write this.

We also hold a bi-monthly Gnostic Study Circle which focuses on selected Gnostic texts from the Nag Hammadi and other sources. While the Sacrament sessions and the Successions sessions are geared towards the clergy, the Gnostic Study Circles are open to the public as well. We wanted the Church to provide some type of public service while we develop our sacramental system.

At the present time, the Coptic Gnostic Church is primarily based in Atlanta, Georgia. We also have a Bishop in Boston, Massachusetts - Tau Galahad - who will be forming a Sanctuary in that region.  More recently Bishop Tau Ishaviva has signified that she will be forming a Sanctuary in Cosby, Tennessee.

If you are interested in further dialog or participation, feel free to contact us.