His Ministerial Office Chronology

(Note: While initially being baptized Roman Catholic as an infant in 1978, the family reverted to Evangelical and Protestant churches in the 1980’s. However his educational upbringing remained primarily in Lutheran schools.)

In het jaar van onze Heer, 1990, op de leeftijd van 12, + Stephen kwam voor het eerst onder de voogdij of +Bishop Pastor Leroy Crouch of Restoration Ministries. Crouch being of Celtic Davidic background, kept the Culdee Scottish documents posted in the Sanctuary for all to read.  The community kept a portion of the Celtic liturgy. He was a primary teacher of the Melchizedek Order, in several theology series. The Pastor was a Spiritual father to Stephen, who could visit his offices any time, as his own school campus (where Stephen’s Parents were the landlord and school officials). Crouch was a speaker at numerous Ministries that included America’s Promise conferences. He made several advanced theology series that were recorded at such conferences and at Restoration Ministries.

In the year of our Lord, 1999, Pastor Crouch nominated +Stephen to the office of Associate Pastor. Confirmation to office did not happen till 2000. +Stephen was highlighted in the Obituary as an honored student of Crouch, and gave part of his eulogy at the funeral.

In het jaar van onze Heer, 2000, after 8 years active as a layman in the Culdees’ church at Orange(Restoration Ministries), and three years of a concentrated study +Stephen was officially anointed and ordained as a Priester en Evangelist door + bisschop Lesley Boyle, assistent-pastor van wijlen bisschop Pastor Crouch.

In het jaar van onze Heer, 2003, + Stephen werd een Kapelaan for several local community organizations including for the Imperial Order of Knights, performing weddings, baptisms, communion, and other church services.

In het jaar van onze Heer, 2003, Hij was gemaakt Manager van de Kelten Roots Bookshop(used at Scottish / Celtic Clan festivals), owned by Dr. Warren Johnson. From 2002 +Stephen was recognized as a Geleerde door Dr. Johnson en andere bestuursleden van het American Institute of Theology die zijn werken over exegetische theologie publiceerden in het geavanceerde cursusmateriaal van het Western Division-seminarie. Diende als een vaste docent en honorair hoogleraar.

In het jaar van onze Heer, 2003, + Bisschop Wesley Perkins en + bisschop Lesley Boyle gewijd Stephen als een Bisschop of the Christ’s Assembly at Orange California, die toezicht hield op meerdere vergaderingen in de provincies Orange County, San Bernardino en Riverside.

In het jaar van onze Heer, 2004, +Stephen begun occupations of the estates and domains in Europe that were inherited by law as belonging to George d’Guelph Brunswick Nott, in succession of our Great Uncle Ulric d’Este Guelph Brunswick, who fought against the illegal occupations of Hanover and Prussia. All in accordance with numerous treaties and house laws on the method of transmitting the inheritance and taking possession.

In het jaar van onze Heer, 2004, +Stephen became Evangelist to Europe en representative Bishop for the European branch of the Christ’s Assembly Worldwide, attending the annual synod (council of bishops).

In the year of our Lord, 2005, +Stephen established the “Good News of the Kingdom” Radio show as co-host with Pastor Boyle. This continued till 2014 with 450 sermons. Regular broadcasts are continued under “the Brunswickers” youtube channel till this day.

In the year of our Lord, 2006, +Stephen began a cooperation of Culdee institutes under His Eminence Abbot Dr David Michael Smith, Abbot General of the Culdee Order, Grand Master of the Templar Order of the Gate.

In het jaar van onze Heer, 2007, +Stephen was issued a provisional charter by the Abbot General of the Culdee Order to form a Culdean Mission (and Abbey) at the South of the Netherlands. This was more of a recognition, co-participating in events. For a time he served as Abbot of Barendrecht Abbey, Zuid Holland. His Abbey and wider Celtic Church ministry (ongoing since 2000) delivered priestly services to the remnant and other outcasts of true Israel in dispersion, in pockets of Europe and the UK. Several newsletters highlighted his “2010 Pilgrimage Crusade” to “Reclaim the Ecclesiastical Rights of Glastonbury”, and leading festival services for various congregations. The primacy in the Culdees in Europe had been won back from various pagan imposters. Membership in this Celtic communion grew from various countries, including Germany, South Africa, Ukraine, Italy, France, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Belgium, Luxemburg, and England.

In het jaar van onze Heer, 2009, + Bisschop Wesley Perkins en + bisschop Lesley Boyle gewijd + bisschop Stephen als Bisschop in Nederland(overseeing multiple congregations), and jointly signed a referentie brief voor zijn uiteindelijke verkiezing tot aartsbisschop voor de BENELUX-jurisdictie, in de bisschoppenraad van de Christ's Assembly. Ordeningscertificaat werd ook ontvangen.

In the year of our Lord, 2009, The Heraldic Community of Westphalia registered the Nott Coat of Arms with Bishops’ Consecration award, adorning the 14th Century Dynastic house arms.

In het jaar van onze Heer, 2009, +Stephen Michael was elevated to Crown Prince of the Wolfenbuttel-Brunswick principality, as His Serene Highness as Heir-at-law to George d’Guelph Brunswick Nott. As representative, exchanged award medals at the Ducal Guard ceremony held at Brunswick Germany in sight of 4,000 spectators. In 2009 HMSH launched the copyrighted websites www.Wolfenbuttel.info, vonbrunswick.com etc to distribute our Dynastic Claim book and the Documentary DVD “Throne Stolen but Not Lost” as produced by Galatia Films LLC.

In het jaar van onze Heer, 2010, +Stephen Michael’s ministry expanded as he officiated services at London and at Glastonbury. He launched regular pilgrimages to minister at Glastonbury at the Orthodox festivals.

In the year of our Lord, 2011, together with blessings of the successors of Restoration Ministries, de Priorij van Salem was consecrated (for our Royal Priesthood under Christ the King of kings). The ceremony was officiated by Rev Stephen Michael K.B. at Gibeon (Jerusalem Israel) where Moses’ tabernacle rested, and Solomon offered 1,000 sacrifices. The consecration was during the High Holy day of the Feast of Passover after the Holy Communion. The service was held live by teleconference at a farm which is near the top of this highest mountain (at Gibeon) overlooking Jerusalem.

In the year of our Lord, 2011, +Stephen advanced to a hereditary office of Lord Prior van Glastonbury, per custom of Culdees’ succession laws, which had jurisdiction of the abbey lands (artikel), infamous of standing out against the Roman method, passing the abbacies primarily to the family or Clan members. This succession was enforced by his regular services at the Tor, by recognition of Culdee Monks and other Orthodox.

The land rights were confirmed by Queen Elizabeth at the time of the dissolution of the original Abbey. The Lord Prior John Nott, also listed as “Cleric of the House”, in place of the Abbot who was executed, was one of only two monks who had refused to sign Henry’s Act of Supremacy. On the on the 21st of November 1556, John Nott raised formal petition with Queen Elizabeth, which was formally accepted by the Queen. She also indicated to the Chief Treasurer to prepare to finance this ministry. It was noted with said Cleric at the investment of the Abbot of Westminster, and at the Queen’s untimely death this appeal was carried to the Archbishop of Canterbury. 

In het jaar van onze Heer, 2013, the Archbishop of Berlin with the Chancellor of the American Orthodox Catholic Church, and other Orthodox Bishops, recognized the status of the Orthodox Culdees’ church, with agreement for the Celtic church to restore to it’s place of precedence among Western European Churches. While recognizing the independence of the Culdee, they also gave permission for us to minister to their churches by official brief van erkenning en communie between the OCC and AOCC. This included a referentie of our good cooperation in ministry for several years.

In het jaar van onze Heer, 2015, +Stephen was consecrated as Primace (Lead Bishop/Archbishop) and anointed with stamped recognitions by three Archbishops, recognized in writing and in the anointing ceremony as head of multiple jurisdictional titles of Nobility within the church and within the Dukedom Wolfenbuttel-Brunswick (as a German elder Dukedom, several member principalities remain resident subordinate). Multiple Knights were also invested at the event. The Archbishop of Berlin, +Peter Becker OSB (primary consecrating Bishop) and the Archbishop +Blake Allan Hammacher OSB (assisting Bishop), did canonically consecrate +Stephen as Aartsbisschop van het AOCC aartsbisdom Nederland en laaglanden (Benelux) with the contractual conditions of full autonomy of the Orthodox Culdean Church. Both Bishops being Order of Saint Benedict.

Co-Consecrators:

The assisting Archbishop +Ambrose von Sievers, Catacomb Church of True Orthodox Christians, provided a certificate of reintegration with the Orthodox Church, and formally recognized +Archbishop(or Primace) Stephen Michael d’Guelph Prince of Brunswick, of the Culdee’s church, en (titulair) aartsbisschop van Glastonbury.

The day of the consecration was a day of ecclesiastical revolution in the Netherlands. Interested parties may inquire on the successful activities published in the Newspaper that day.

Halfjaarlijks +Stephen continues since 2010 meeting and maintaining services with the Glastonbury Clerics and others involved in ministry to the local people (and pilgrims).  Some work full time in ministry, some in music, some in performing the Divine liturgies, and others in writing and distributing literature part time.

In the year of our Lord, 2014

In the year of our Lord, 2016-present, +Stephen became Sovereign Ducal Protector for the investiture ceremonies for Wolfenbuttel-Brunswick jurisdictions of the Knights Templar.

In het jaar van onze Heer, 2017, +Stephen was awarded with a Doctorate of Divinity. As with tradition of ordinations, the Professor Becker from the same Lutheran Institute of St Peter and St Paul, referred him along with the references to the school’s headmaster. So +Stephen may use in His style as Doctor (one of three). (Although titles aren’t his wish, simply “brother” or fellow minister are enough, some may address him as Rev Doctor or the Primace within the OCC communion.)

In het jaar van onze Heer, 2017, +Stephen completed his Doctoral Thesis on the Celtic Church, and submitted it to the Lutheran Institute St Peter and St Paul, and was awarded the Degree of Doctor of Theology (or ThD).

In het jaar van onze Heer, 2019, HMSH, Rev Dr Stephen M.K. Brunswick re-launched the audio courses of the late Bishop Pastor Crouch through the Priory of Salem at Missouri and via the http://youtube.com/thebrunswickers Youtube channel.

In het jaar van onze Heer, 2020, HMSH, Rev Dr Stephen M.K. Brunswick established the Ministry of St. Andrew’s and St. Joseph’s at Dixieland Rd, Arkansas.

In the year of our Lord, 2021, HMSH, Rev Dr Stephen M.K. Brunswick graduated from the Baptist School of Biblical & Theological Studies with the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, emphasis in Religious Education (or PhD).

In the year of our Lord, 2022, HMSH Rev Dr Stephen MK d’Guelph Brunswick has completed the legal required succession paperwork covering eight legal methods for the accession to the Chiefship of the Royal House of Este-Guelph, for the Sovereign Dukedom of Wolfenbuttel-Brunswick and Wolfenbuttel-Luneburg while retaining his lawful status as the Royal-priest head (summus episcopus) of the Wolfenbuttel-Brunswick church. The completion of these additional legalities came through the coursework of the earned Certificates in International Law and International Arbitration from two major accredited Universities in the EU.

Herein are several of the priestly lines that are recognized in Orthodox circles of Christendom (East and West). These lines connect in direct succession down from the Holy Apostles, in a consecration ceremony of anointing and the laying on of hands. https://celticorthodoxy.com/2020/04/lines-of-apostolic-succession-of-prince-archbishop-dr-stephen-m-dguelph-brunswick-primace-occ/

Als bisschop die een bezoek brengt aan een buitenlandse jurisdictie is het gebruikelijk dat er een herinwijding plaatsvindt, om de geldigheid van de sacramenten binnen die congregaties te bevestigen.

Hoewel sommigen geloven dat deze wijdingen niet nodig zijn, beschouwen verschillende universiteiten wereldwijd deze als een vereiste voor iedereen die in priesterlijke dienst handelt. De Engelse kerk, en vele andere kerken die niet onder de structuur van Rome vallen, besloten de bisschoppelijke opvolging te behouden. Dit omvat alle internationale erkenningen, aangezien er staat dat de Engelse kerk "haar episcopaat heeft behouden, maar niet van paus Gregorius, die Augustinus de monnik hierheen stuurde, maar van Jozef van Arimathea". Dit gaat samen met een breder herstel en erkenning binnen de oosters-orthodoxe kerk (de ware orthodoxe kerk, die ontsnapte aan de bolsjewistische bloedbaden door in de catacomben te wonen, AKA Catacombe-kerk. In overeenstemming met de kanunniken van de oorspronkelijke Russische kerk, Sabbat op zaterdag.)

[Speciale opmerking over de sabbat:De Didascalia van de apostelen wordt in het grootste deel van de orthodoxe wereld als canoniek beschouwd, en daarin is de sabbat zaterdag en wordt het een dag van rust en aanbidding genoemd. In de Stoglav, een officieel manuscript van de Russisch-orthodoxe kerk, gedateerd in het jaar 1556, dat materiaal bevat van de Raad van Moskou tijdens het bewind van Ivan IV (1531-1584), staat een hoofdstuk over de sabbat:
“By the Authority of Peter and Paul, we command to the people to work during the week. But on Subota (Sabbath) and on Nedelja (Sunday) let them worship in the Church and pray, and let them learn something for the sake of good faith. The Subota is the image of the whole creation, while the Nedelja is the day of the resurrection.” Read more in the book published by His Eminence ++Rev Dr Stephen M.K. Brunswick, Primace ,OCC, “Het eren van de sabbat in de orthodoxe kerk“.]