The Right Reverend Seán Manchester, O.S.G.
“Believers will
drive out demons in My name.”
Mark
16: 17
Born
near Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, England, Bishop Seán Manchester
prepared for holy orders, having entered the minor order of
exorcist in 1973, which led to his entry into the diaconate and
priesthood in 1990. He was episcopally consecrated on 4th October
1991. A bishop alone may authorise solemn exorcisms, as Bishop
Manchester explained on the James Whale Show, 20.02.2002, adding that
demand has put immense pressure on those who carry out exorcisms. This was
confirmed four days later in a front-page headline story in the
Roman Catholic newspaper “The Universe” where the Pope warned of the serious
growth of occult practices and satanic sects that has led to an
unprecedented rise in demand for exorcists. Bishop Manchester has specialised
in the ministry of exorcism for three decades and is acknowledged by many as
one of Britain's foremost authorities on demonology (including vampirology) and
exorcism. He has been warning of a satanic revival and the existence of
supernatural evil since the late Sixties, and is the author of
over half a dozen books, mostly concerned with this topic, having
contributed to countless television documentaries and studio debates. Born towards the end of a
nightmare that reduced much of Europe to a wasteland, Seán Manchester, an only
child, played in the avenues of sombre forest trees in Lord Byron’s gloomy
abode, Newstead Abbey Park, where the fading twilight coupled with the moan in
leafy woods to herald the last tangible breath of the Romantic Movement. His
beloved mother was born at the end of the Great War and it is via this
side of the family that the Byron connection is inherited. The sanctuary of
Newstead was forsaken for the New World when he was still an infant, but the
family soon returned to the familiar landscape and trees through which could be
glimpsed a mist-laden semi-ruin of a rich and rare mixed Gothic. London also
beckoned and here he would arrive to conclude his studies and live for much of
his life. Author, lecturer and researcher, Seán Manchester also inherited his
parents’ love of music and from early on in his life performed on reed and
keyboard instruments. Later he turned to composing. In 1973 he entered the
minor order of exorcist, having been tonsured, and already holding the orders
of porter and reader. Later in 1973, he entered the highest of the minor
orders, that of the acolyte. This was also the year when he inaugurated the
founding of Ordo Sancti Graal on Good Friday 13th April. Seventeen years later
he took holy orders and inherited ecumenical lines of apostolic succession in
the Old Catholic, Eastern Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches, plus other
mainstream denominations. The following year he was elevated to the episcopate
on the feast of St Francis of Assisi, 4 October 1991, whereupon he assumed the
primacy of the autocephalous jurisdiction Ecclesia Apostolica Jesu Christi. On
the feast of the Precious Blood, 1 July 1993, he was enthroned as the Bishop of
Glastonbury, and on the same feast day nine years later he founded the
Sacerdotal Society of the Precious Blood, having been elected presiding bishop
for the British Old Catholic Church, an umbrella movement for traditional Old
Catholic groups based in the United Kingdom.
Publications:
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The Highgate Vampire:
The World of the Undead Unearthed
at London’s Highgate Cemetery
(Published 1985, BOS; revised &
updated edition 1991, Gothic Press)
From Satan To Christ: Secrets of
Witchcraft and Satanism Revealed in a Story of Salvation
(Published 1988, Holy Grail)
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know: The Life of Lady Caroline Lamb
(Published 1992, Gothic Press)
The Grail Church: Its Ancient
Tradition and Renewed Flowering
(Published 1995, Holy Grail)
The Vampire Hunter’s Handbook: A Concise Vampirological Guide
(Published 1997, Gothic Press)
(Published 2000, Gothic Press)