Some Grand Priories within our organization are referred to as ‘Grand Priories in Distress’. Once the Grand Priory in question is properly and solemnly consecrated as per the ancient medieval rites of chivalry, then the appellation ‘in formation’ is removed and the jurisdiction achieves the status of a fully fledged Grand Priory within the Order. Some reach the next stage of ‘Commandery’, or even a ‘Grand Commandery’. Some jurisdictions do not automatically reach the stage of ‘Grand Priory in Formation’. To reach such a status, a jurisdiction needs to be properly organized and deemed fit to tackle the responsibilities of its particular jurisdictions, including an acknowledged presentation of its Hospitaller initiatives in the short and medium term of operations. ![]() It is the custom within our Organisation to ensure that a proper Lazarite team is carefully inducted before the Grand Chancery puts forward the case to the Supreme Grand Priory for the particular jurisdiction to be promoted to a ‘Grand Priory in Formation’. The smallest unit within the structure of the Order is referred to as a Delegation. The international and diplomatic overseeing of the Order resides within the Office of the Grand Chancery in the jurisdiction of Malta.īelow, one finds an alphabetical list of all the jurisdictions and regions within which the Order of Saint Lazarus flourishes today, with a membership of over 14,000 Christians worldwide and with Hospitaller work worth millions being overseen on a yearly basis. ![]() However, the present day Order’s seat of authority today rests within the jurisdiction of Scotland, where the Supreme Grand Prior resides. Naturally the emulation of the medieval, defunct, Lazarite Order is immediately noted in the official name of our chivalric organization, namely the appellation ‘of Jerusalem’ in our full name which immediately brings to mind that the mission statement of our organization today is to serve with humility our Hospitaller and philanthropic calling as did the Lazarite knights of old. Today, the Order of Saint Lazarus does not operate from the Holy Land, or the Outremer as it was fondly called in the times of the Crusade. ![]() The structure of the Order's jurisdictions worldwide reflects the composition of the first Commanderies, Preceptories and Priories which dotted the European landscape in medieval times and which were the operating region of the medieval orders, including the Order of Saint Lazarus, in days gone by.
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