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Thaddaeus VII Current era successor carrying on the lineage of Thaddaeus (Jude) of the 12 Apostles Lineage includes early Assyrian Christian communities around Persian Empire, the Thomas Christians sect in India, later Swiss theological scholars in the era prior to the Protestant Reformation, and French Jesuit missionaries who accompanied the first explorations of New France (Quebec) Arrived in the Michigan region in the mid-1700s intent on counteracting scandals caused by rogue frontier priests sent west without proper oversight Serves as the leading abbot of the remote Saint Thaddaeus Reformed Monastery established south of Sault Ste. Marie along Lake Huron's wilderness shoreline Current title: "The Venerable Lord Abbot Thaddaeus VII of Chippewa Bay" Considered a scholarly theologian writing numerous volumes stored in the monastery vaults, he serves as a voice of reform against church corruption - reflecting generations of conscientious objector dissent traced back to his namesake apostle’s doubting nature.