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Current logo used in association with the Grand Lodge of Michigan. This contemporarily styled logo launched with the "Share the Secret" campaignThe Grand Lodge of Michigan of Free and Accepted Masons, commonly known as Grand Lodge of Michigan, in tandem with the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Michigan govern the practice of regular Freemasonry in the state of Michigan.
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).
Grand Lodge governance may have shifted or reorganized, resulting in further loss of records on the member or the name, number, location or even existence of the lodge in question. In areas of the world where Masonry has been suppressed by governments, records of entire grand lodges have been destroyed.
Johann von Böber (1746–1820), German teacher, entomologist and botanist who was a Russian Royal Councilor of State. Grand master of the Grand Lodge of Russia from 1811 to 1814. [10] Lewis V. Bogy (1813–1877), U.S. senator from Missouri. Member of Polar Star Lodge No. 79 of St. Louis, Missouri. [10]
Wilder D. Foster — U.S. Congressman from Michigan; mayor of Grand Rapids [16] George Heartwell — Mayor of Grand Rapids [16] [19] Paul B. Henry — U.S. Congressman [20] Julius Houseman — U.S. Congressman; mayor of Grand Rapids [16] Bartel J. Jonkman — U.S. Congressman from Michigan
LANSING — The Michigan Attorney General's Office has sued to dissolve an Eaton Rapids charity connected to a retired priest who was convicted of embezzling hundreds of thousand of dollars from ...
The (∴) is used only for Masonic abbreviations, any non-masonic abbreviations must be written with a simple dot, as an example a date on a Masonic document could be written 6024 A∴L∴/2024 A.D. In modern computer typography, the Therefore, sign is encoded in Unicode at U+2234 ∴ and in HTML (HTML ∴ · ∴).
More than 50 clergy — including 48 priests — in a Michigan diocese have been accused of sexual abuse dating back to the 1950s, according to a disturbing report by the state’s top prosecutor.