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The Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM), officially the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta, [a] and commonly known as the Order of Malta or the Knights of Malta, is a Catholic lay religious order, traditionally of a military, chivalric, and noble nature. [4]
Following the expulsion of the Order from Malta by Napoleon in 1798, the Order's remnants temporarily relocated in Messina until 1802, Catania until 1826, and Ferrara until 1834. Gotland was offered to the knights by Sweden in 1806, but they refused as they still hoped to reclaim sovereignty over Malta. [11]
The Sovereign Military Order of Malta is a sovereign entity of international law that does not have its own territory. It is a permanent non-state observer to the United Nations. It maintains diplomatic relations with over 100 countries. [1] Some of these are hosts of Order of Malta Embassies. The Order's non-diplomatic country Associations and ...
This article lists diplomatic missions accredited to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.The Order does not have its own territory and its sovereign extraterritorial headquarters, Villa del Priorato di Malta and Palazzo Malta, are located in Rome; therefore many countries accredit their Rome-based ambassadors to the Holy See additionally to the Order of Malta.
The Sovereign Military Order of Malta established a mission in Malta, after signing an agreement with the Maltese Government which granted the Order the exclusive use of Fort St. Angelo for a term of 99 years. [71] Today, after restoration, the Fort hosts historical and cultural activities related to the Order of Malta. [72]
In the York Rite system it is conferred before the Templar Degree; in the 'stand-alone' tradition it is conferred subsequently to the Templar Degree. It is known by varying degrees of formality as the Order of Malta, or the Order of Knights of Malta, or the Ancient and Masonic Order of St John of Jerusalem, Palestine, Rhodes, and Malta. In ...
The Order has non-diplomatic official relations with five more states: France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Canada and the United Kingdom. [1] [3] [4] The Order exchanges ambassadors with the European Union and the State of Palestine. [1] [2] Embassy of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in Ljubljana, Slovenia
The Order's earliest archives, now at the National Library of Malta, contain at least four versions of a royal confirmation of the Hospital granted by Baldwin I of Jerusalem in 1110. The archives also contain acts given in 1112 by Latin patriarch Arnulf of Chocques and Ehremar , then archbishop of Caesarea .