Apostolic Johannite Church: News and Events

The Apostolic Johannite Church is pleased to announce the re-emergence of Holy Sophia Narthex in Melbourne, Australia.

After a few years as a Mission of St Uriel’s in Sydney, the Johannite community in Melbourne has formed a new narthex under the leadership of Sr. Rebecca Dunsdon. Melbourne is a centre of art, culture and several lively spiritual currents and Holy Sophia Narthex aims to position itself at the intersection of all these influences, providing a home, hearth and artist’s studio for gnostics, esoteric Christians and mystics in the greater Melbourne area.

The Narthex is currently in the process of crafting their web home, which will be announced here when it goes online. In the meantime, there is a new Facebook group for the Narthex, where information about upcoming events can be found here

Concave is fast approaching and we’re excited about the excellent lineup of speakers and activities for this year’s event.

If you’ve not yet registered for Conclave, now is the time to do so. Conclave registration closes on May 8th, and no more space will be available.

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The Apostolic Johannite Church is pleased to announce the upcoming ordination of the Rev. Joseph McCauslin to the Sacred Order of the Priesthood for service with the Parish of St Eve’s Apostolic Johannite Church in Harrisburg, PA.

Deacon Joseph McCauslin is a native resident of South Central Pennsylvania where he currently serves as the Rector for St. Eve’s Apostolic Johannite Church.  With many years of experience working with alternative spiritualty and independent, sacramental churches in the local area, Joseph has been instrumental in developing the Sangreal Chapel, a network of small independent Christian churches in the South Central Pennsylvania area whose purpose is to share ideas, resources, knowledge and skills amongst each other to service a larger progressive, Christian community and to help build and foster struggling congregations.  In addition, many years of service and study in various magical and mystical circles give him the ability and the experience to provide spiritual and intellectual consultation to many local non-Christian groups and organizations.

Deacon Joseph currently is a proud member of the Harrisburg City School District and serves as their Assistant Technology Manager in Harrisburg, PA.  Serving the children of Harrisburg for 10 years, Joseph dedicates his life’s work to providing technological tools, skills and experience in real world, 21^st century application to inner-city children in order help them succeed in both post-secondary education and in life.  Having a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Joseph is self-taught in the field of technology and serves as a model on how alternative learning is changing not only today’s work force but also the world and fuels him to enhance the education and resources of today’s student through contemporary, technological means.  Always wanting to be of service to this community, Joseph seeks to pursue a degree in Foreign Language education and the opportunity write curriculum to assist students in enhancing their English acquisition through foreign language skills.

A citizen of Harrisburg PA, Joseph lives with his partner of 10 years, Father Joseph Cowan, a priest in the Old Catholic tradition and their two dogs, Jupiter and Allison-Janney.

The Apostolic Johannite Church is pleased to announce the upcoming ordination of the Rev. Mr. John Digilio to the Sacred Order of the Diaconate for service with Mission Fabre-Palaprat, the Chicago area and the Parish of St. Michael the Archangel in Wisconsin.

John DiGilio is the National Manager of Research Services for Reed Smith, LLP. He has over 15 years of large law firm library and legal information vendor experience. John has proudly been affiliated with such industry standouts as Thomson Reuters, where he served as a Librarian Relations Manager, and K&L Gates, where he was the Firmwide Legal and Business Research Librarian/ Instructor for many years.

John is very active in the law and law library communities. He has written for numerous regional and national publications as well as taught college and graduate courses in such topics as business ethics, e-commerce, fair employment practices, research methodology and business law. John is active in both the Special Libraries Association and the American Association of Law Libraries. He also enjoys talking about technology and leadership to various library organizations and has spoken all over the United States, Canada, and even the Caribbean. This is the focus of and reason behind his popular iBraryGuy 2.0 blog.

John earned his Juris Doctorate from Pepperdine University School of Law and his Master of Library & Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Information Sciences. He is currently pursuing a Licentiate of Sacred Theology from Saint Raphael the Archangel Theological Seminary. John is also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of On Firmer Ground, a blog by and for law firm librarians. It is an international collaboration by law library groups from Australia, Canada, Great Britain, New Zealand, Scotland, South Africa, and the United States.

He is a Subdeacon in the AJC and the leader of our Chicago mission, Mission Fabré-Palaprat. In addition to his work with the AJC, John is also a practicing Soto Zen Buddhist and student of Vedanta.

The Rev. Mr. DiGilio will be ordained by the Primate of the United States at Conclave 2013 in Chicago, Illinois.