Hochkirchliche St.-Johannes-Bruderschaft

Hochkirchliche St. Johannes-Bruderschaft (SJB) ("High Church Brotherhood of St John") is a German High Church Lutheran
confraternity 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.

The Rule

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.

The Rule contains for example following:

*Members have regular prayer life and preferably say daily office using a breviary and whenever possible, in common with others.
*Priest members are committed to celebrate Eucharist every sunday if possible and to take care that the eucharistic prayer contains also anamnesis and epiclesis.
*Members go to private confession at least once a year and priest members work for reanimation of the practice of the private confession in their parishes.
*Members of the Brotherhood follow fasting and abstinence rules of the western Church.
*They work by prayer, words, and deeds for peace, justice, and probation of the creation, collaboration of peoples and races. Members take part in the work of ecumenical movement.

History

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.

Apostolic Succession in St. Johannes-Bruderschaft:

*129. Antonius (Franz X. Alvarez) - 1889
*130. Timotheus (René J. Vilatte) - 1892
*131. Paulus (Miraglia) - 1900
*132. Julius (Houssaye) - 1904
*133. Ludwig (Francois Giraud) - 1911
*134. Petrus (Gaston Vigué) - 1928
*135. IRENÄUS (FRIEDRICH HEILER) - 1930
*136. Cyrillus (Martin Giebner) - 1941
*137. Ambrosius (Konrad Minkner) - 1952
*138. Werner (Ernst Linz) - 1963
*139. Johannes (Klaus Ewert) - 1964
*140. Donatus (Albrecht Volkmann) - 1971
*141. Simeon (Dietrich Schulze) - 1979
*142. Herman (Herman Miskotte) - 1980
*143. Joachim (Joachim Nerger) - 1988
*144. Paulus (Klaus Jacoby) - 1992

ee also

* Helmut Echternach
* Hochkirchlicher Apostolat St. Ansgar

External links

* [http://www.hochkirchliche-vereinigung.de/ Hochkirchliche Vereinigung Augsburgischen Bekenntnisses e.V.] de icon
** [http://www.hochkirchliche-vereinigung.de/sjb.html Hochkirchliche St. Johannes-Bruderschaft] de icon

* [http://global-dialogue.com/swidlerbooks/VANGUARD.htm "The Ecumenical Vanguard - The History of the Una Sancta Movement"] by Leonard Swidler
* [http://www.kommunitaeten.de/quat/J1954/q54172.htm "Die St. Johannes-Bruderschaft"] by Albrecht Volkmann, Quatember 1954 (p. 172-175) de icon