Warren Watters

Background

Watters was born in Imperial, Nebraska in 1890.

Career

He later did post-graduate doctoral work at the Conservatory of Music in Paris. Watters was assigned as Bishop of California for the Church of Antioch and served as co-pastor of the Holy Spirit Church of Antioch in Santa Barbara. During this time he also founded the Center for Esoteric Studies and published the Esoteric Review magazine.

Organizational changes within Church of Antioch led to Watters and several other bishops departing to form their own separate and distinct ministries.

Watters, shortly before his death, established the Free Church of Antioch (Malabar Rite). Ellen Watters was consecrated to the episcopate on April 20, 1986, by Herman Adrian Spruit who was assisted by co-consecrators Meri Louise Spruit and Joseph L. Vrendenburgh.

Ellen Watters died in 2002.

Achievements

• He was an accomplished musician and concert pianist and was educated at Grinnell, Northwestern, Drake, and the University of California.

Membership

Watters was deeply interested in esoteric spiritualities and was for many years a member of the Theosophical Society and of its Esoteric School.