Carl James Joseph

Carl James Joseph (Joseph prefers to go by his middle and last name.)

Itinerant life

After finding an office job working at a Christian organization in New York City stifling, Joseph began a wandering lifestyle in May 1991. In 1999, he was deported from Mexico after officials became concerned by the large crowds following him. While he was preaching on a sidewalk, the crowd spilled into the street; when police asked him to move, he refused. In October 1999, he arrived in the Coal Region of Pennsylvania, where Time magazine reported on him, calling Joseph the "Appalachian Apostle". Joseph moved to Jerusalem in 2010, and, , had lived at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem for most of the preceding decade. He traveled to Philadelphia for Pope Francis's 2015 visit to the United States.

A documentary entitled The Jesus Guy about Joseph was released in 2007.