John Kersey (Tau Eleutherius) was educated at grammar school in London and at universities in Europe, Africa and Central America. He holds doctorates in divinity, education and the humanities. He was a lay-worker for twelve years in a number of different denominations before serving two non-Apostolic ministries in London. The decision of the latter community to seek Apostolic ordination brought him into contact with the Old Catholics, and between 2006 and January 2009 he was jointly responsible for leading a Liberal Catholic church that during his time expanded to become a worldwide communion. Since that time, his ministry has developed in a significantly more esoteric and Gnostic direction; he currently leads the Ecclesia Apostolica Divinorum Mysteriorum (http://innerchurch.wordpress.com) as a body in these traditions, as well as holding representative positions for the Apostolic Episcopal Church, an Eastern rite Uniate mission, and the Order of Corporate Reunion. His theological interests are in the initiatic Wisdom heritages and in their past and future relationship with the outer church.