Jean Bricaud

Who was Jean Bricaud?

Jean Bricaud, also known as Tau Jean II, was a French student of the occult and esoteric matters. Bricaud was heavily involved in the French neo-Gnostic movement. He was consecrated a Gnostic bishop on July 21, 1913 by bishop Louis-Marie-François Giraud. He was the Patriarch of the l'Église Gnostique Universelle and a central figure in the various lines of the apostolic succession of subsequent Gnostic Churches, as well as a spiritual heir of Jules Doinel. From 1916 he was head of the L'Ordre Martiniste.