Stephan A. Hoeller, (1931 -- ) is a writer, scholar and New Age religious leader. Born in Budapest, Hungary he graduated from the University of Innsbruck in Austria. He is Professor Emeritus of comparative religion at the College of Oriental Studies in Los Angeles, California. An author and scholar of gnosticism and Jungian psychology. He is also a bishop of Ecclesia Gnostica, a member of the lecturing faculty of the Philosophical Research Society, and Director of Studies for the Gnostic Society of Los Angeles. He has been a frequent contributor to the now defunct Gnosis magazine.

His works include:

  • Jung and the Lost Gospels (1989)
  • The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead (1989)
  • The Royal Road (1990)
  • Freedom: Alchemy for a Voluntary Society (1992)
  • Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing (2002)