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In addition, Provincial and District Grand Lodges in England and Wales usually maintain a practice of honouring certain Past Masters of Craft Lodges as well as other distinguished Brethren by granting them the rank and precedence of a 'past' provincial grand officer, even if they have never actively held such a position in Provincial Grand Lodge.
Provincial Grand Lodge of New York ("Athol Charter" - Ancients) - 1781-1784 - Although this PGL was Warranted by the "Ancients", the final Provincial Grand Master, Chancellor Robert R. Livingston (PGM: 1784-87), was actually the Master of a Lodge under the Jurisdiction of the Moderns, thus uniting the two branches of English Freemasonry in New ...
The very first Provincial Grand Master was appointed for Cheshire in 1725. [3] There are now Provinces (with Provincial Grand Masters) under the Grand Lodge of Ireland, [4] the National Grand Lodge of France, [5] and the Grand Lodge of Scotland, [6] for example. However, not all Masonic jurisdictions have Provinces or Provincial Grand Masters.
This is a list of all verifiable organizations that claim to be a Masonic Grand Lodge in United States. A Masonic "Grand Lodge" (or sometimes "Grand Orient") is the governing body that supervises the individual "Lodges of Freemasons" in a particular geographical area, known as its "jurisdiction" (usually corresponding to a sovereign state or other major geopolitical unit).
Officially, the Supreme Council, 33°, N.M.J. dates itself from May 15, 1867, as this was the date of the "Union of 1867", when the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction merged with the competing Hays-Raymond Cerneau Supreme Council [14] in New York, thus forming the current Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the ...
The Allied Masonic Degrees form an appendant order of Freemasonry that exists in some Masonic jurisdictions; its degrees are conferred only by invitation. Councils of the Allied Masonic Degrees exist in Great Britain, the United States, Canada, France, Australia, India, Benin and Congo, and their members also educate one another by presenting ...
A Grand Master is a title of honour as well as an office in Freemasonry, given to a freemason elected to oversee a Masonic jurisdiction, derived from the office of Grand Masters in chivalric orders. [1]
A number of Masonic-affiliated youth organizations exist, mainly in North America, which are collectively referred to as Masonic youth organizations. Order of the Knights of Pythagoras, for boys aged 8 to 18; sponsored by the Prince Hall Freemasons. DeMolay International. Young men from 12 to 21 are eligible for membership.