Tau Mikael III Basilides has been a student of the Western Esoteric Tradition and related subjects for thirty years, with a special focus on the Autonomous Sacramental Christian Movement and Christian Sacramental Gnosticism for the last fifteen years.
Tau Mikael III holds Apostolic Lineages through the Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopian, Malakaran, Old Catholic, Russian, Syrian, and Ukrainian Churches, other Ancient Patriarchates as well as from Le Eglise Chretiens Primitifs, La Iglesia Gnostica Catolica Apostolica, Primacia de Colombia and the Ecclesia Gnostica Joanita, and other Modern Neo-Gnostic Churches. His Beatitude is also a Free Initiator (S:.I.:I) in the Martinist Lineage (O.M.C.C), and a member of the Sanctuary of the Gnosis.
Tau Mikael III is a avid student of Ecclesiastical History, Canon Law, Chivalry and Chivalric Orders, Old and New Testament Apocryphal and Pseudopigraphal Texts, and Alternative Health.
Tau Mikael III has preferred working as a modern “Wandering Bishop”, providing the Holy Mysteries to those not presently affliated with a church, but who are in need of a Christan cleric.
Tau Mikael III has worked with the homeless in Omaha, Nebraska, and prior to that at a shelter for HIV and AIDS patients in the mountains of Julian, California.
Tau Mikael III lives in South Central Lower Michigan with his wife, four children and two cats.
*”Tau” is the title of a bishop in the lineage of Tau Valentin II, a chief bishop of the Modern Christian Gnostic Sacramental Movement, and “Catholicos” is title of the Primate (Primary Bishop) of certain Oriental Churches.
