| Bishop Johannes will lead the Young Rite movement in South Africa. He
received the Apostolic Succession from The Liberal Catholic Church at his consecration in
the Pro-Cathedral of Saint Alban in Johannesburg on 6 January, 1980. The Consecrator was
Bishop Patrick, Regionary Bishop of South Africa, empowered to consecrate him by the
General Episcopal Synod of The Liberal Catholic Church. Bishop Johannes resigned from the
Liberal Catholic Church in 2002 on a matter of principle in the Canon Law. Bishop
Johannes is supported by Reverend Jannie Hofkamp, who was ordained to the priesthood by
+Johannes on the 16th of March, 2008. Both +Johannes and Jannie are vegetarian,
teetotaler, and abstain from using tobacco or any other form of habit-forming drugs.
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