The International President

Archbishop Leon Roger Hunt is Presiding Bishop of the Autocephalous Catholic Church of Antioch, an independent ecclesiastical body which is a constituent part of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. His Apostolic lineage includes succession from churches of both the East and the West: including succession from the Coptic Orthodox Church of Ethiopia, from the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church, from the Russian Orthodox Church and from the Old Catholic Church of Holland. The Autocephalous Catholic Church of Antioch is in full communion with the Catholic Apostolic Church of Antioch in USA, with the Lutheran Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in Europe and with Corpus Una, Independent Catholic Fellowship, in USA.

 

Archbishop Leon Roger received a Grammar School education in London, U.K., during which time he was also privately tutored in philosophy and comparative religion by Burmese diplomat U Maung Maung Ji, former political secretary to Mahatma Gandhi and associate of Nehru and U Thant.

 

In later studies the archbishop specialized in theology, biblical Hebrew, classical Greek and Latin. He holds a research doctorate in theology and an honorary doctorate in divinity. His interest in psychology led him to London psychotherapist Buntie Wills, disciple of Carl Jung’s colleague Toni Sussman. He studied Jungian psychology with Buntie for six years.

 

He was ordained to priesthood on 12 June, 1982, in U.S.A., and consecrated to the episcopate on 27 November, 2010, in U.K. by bishops of the Catholic Apostolic Church of Antioch and the Old Catholic Apostolic Church.

 

The archbishop lived in U.S.A. from 1979 to 1989, where he served as Chaplain of Sanctuary House, a Healing Home, run by the Rev. Robert Williams McKewin, Executive Director of Lordsway Incorporated, and Rector of the Episcopal Church of St. Andrew in South St. Paul, Minnesota. As Chaplain of Sanctuary House he was also Christian Counsellor to the emotionally and mentally disturbed residents thereof.

 

Archbishop Leon Roger is a member of the Ecumenical Council of the Lutheran Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, and Superior General of the Society of the Christian Life. He is a Knight Grand Cross of St. Paul, and Lieutenant Grand Cross of the Order of St. Paul for the United Kingdom. The Order of St. Paul itself is under the protection and sovereignty of the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, and its Primate Archbishop Burckle, Count von Aarburg; it enjoys also the protection of the Oriental and Orthodox Churches and the Militia Sancti Pauli.

 

Archbishop Leon Roger is a theologian and historian. He is the author of translations from the works of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, and has published studies on liturgical matters and on the religious elements inherent in mediaeval chivalric tradition.